Guelph takes second at OUA Figure Skating Championship
Hosting the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Championships on Feb. 17 and 18 at the Gryphon Centre, the Guelph Gryphons wouldn’t repeat as champions after taking the title in 2014. Instead, the Gryphons would follow up with a silver performance of 60 points.
The Guelph Gryphons Figure Skating team skated to silver at the OUA Championships at the University of Guelph on Feb. 17-18, finishing with 60 points, 13 behind the gold-medal winning Western Mustangs.
The Western Mustangs took home their fourth title in the last five years, winning gold with an impressive 73 points for first place.
The Ryerson Rams, who have never won an OUA Figure Skating Championship, finished third with 57 points – three points back of the host Gryphons. The Rams have now won back-to-back bronze medals, after taking third place in the 2014 event.
Members of the 2014 Championship squad include Kelsey Sobkowich and Leeann Duncan of Guelph – who were also skaters honoured as OUA All-Stars – put forth an impeccable performance in the Senior Similar Pairs, winning gold in the event in front of Korie Paquette and Lisa Makeeva of second-place Ryerson, and bronze medalists Margaret Purdy and Christina Liao of Western.
That would be one of three medals for Duncan, who also won gold along with Sobkowich once again, as well as Mackenzie Wilson and Julia Cenedese – both named OUA All-Stars – in the Pairs Four event. Duncan’s third medal came in the Gold STARSkate event, as the Gryphon finished with silver.
Katie Graham and Kathleen Harris would place in the Junior Silver Similar Dance, taking the silver in the event between Western’s golden pair of Clarissa Luo and Nicole Lawson and third place Elspeth Mathau and Kaitlyn Liu of Toronto.
Erin Campbell won bronze for the Gryphons in the Senior Silver STARSkate, finishing behind Amy McMillan of the Mustangs and gold medalist Riley Alison of the McMaster Marauders.
In the Open Men’s STARSkate, fourth year veteran Francis Adamo was nothing short of perfect, finishing with the sought after gold in the event. The gold medal would allow Adamo to repeat as the champion of the event after placing first in 2014. Vincent Chan of the Waterloo Warriors wasn’t too far behind with a silver-winning performance, with Liam Fawcett of the Carleton Ravens placing third for the bronze.