News for Monday, March 23

Lynn Rutherford’s U.S. pairs preview for Worlds, drawn from last week’s teleconferences, highlights Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim‘s competitive goals and Haven Denney and Brandon Frazier‘s shift to Ingo Steuer as head coach.

Lori Ewing of the Canadian Press previews Team Canada at Worlds, focusing primarily on Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje.

From Lubov Iliushechkina and Dylan Moscovitch‘s teleconference last Tuesday comes this Beverley Smith write-up, while for the Skate Canada site, Smith also offers an overview of Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford and Weaver and Poje’s journeys to Worlds, also drawn from last week’s conferences.

Finally, Skate Today provides an overview of Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue‘s season and preparations for Worlds, with additional quotes from teleconference. The team’s website has also been updated with a new blog entry highlighting promised new free dance costumes.

With competition at Worlds set to begin tomorrow evening at 9:30 PM Eastern with the short dance, a few resources that may be of use:

The official Worlds 2015 website provides information on the schedule, venue and visiting the region, while the ISU’s results and live scoring page is now available; the complete roster of entries can be found here.

Icenetwork will as customary be streaming the entire competition live, as will the CBC Sports website in Canada. The Universal Sports network will be showing delayed broadcasts of certain events.

Skate Canada on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram is providing on-site material as possible; U.S. Figure Skating on Twitter has also entered the fray, while U.S. champion Jason Brown is manning the Instagram account for U.S. Figure Skating. Fans too have generously shared photos from open practice sessions, including @sapix929 and @Annabelle_fi.