The defending champion held off the hard-charging 16-year-old to win her second national figure skating title
the 17-year-old daughter of two-time Olympian Josée Chouinard, claimed bronze with 180.54 points.
Schizas won a legion of fans with her impressive Olympic debut last year in Beijing, where her short program in the team event propelled Canada into the final and eventually to a fourth-place finish.“I don’t think if you told me as a kid or if you told me in 2020 I was going to be a two-time Canadian champion, I would’ve have bought into it – now here I am,” Schizas said.
Ruiter was the 2020 Canadian junior champion at just 13, trouncing a field of skaters who were in most cases at least a couple of years older. She would have been just old enough to compete in Beijing’s Olympics, but a gruesome injury sidelined her for the season. “I landed on my skate blade, and it went through and cut two of my calf muscles,” Ruiter said. “It was really rough, and then coming back from that … I had some scar tissue issues and nerve damage all throughout the summer.The national event determines Canada’s team for the world championships March 20-26 in Saitama, Japan.While Schizas will earn that spot when the team is named Sunday, Ruiter looked forward to the world junior championship on home ice at Calgary’s WinSport Event Centre.
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