THOROLD, Ont. – The Guelph Gryphons varsity figure skating team claimed OUA bronze after finishing 3rd in the final team standings (out of 10 schools) at the 2024 OUA Figure Skating Championships. The two-day conference championship event was held at Canada Games Park in Thorold, Ontario (hosted by the Brock Badgers), with the Gryphons sending 20 student-athletes to compete. The Gryphons finished the OUA Championships with 8 medals (3 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze) while comfortably securing a spot on the podium in the final team standings (Guelph's 76 points for bronze, Queen's in 4th-place with 48 points). Only the University of Toronto Varsity Blues (2nd-place, 86 points) and Western Mustangs (1st-place, 89 points) finished ahead of the Gryphons. It marks the second consecutive season in which the Gryphons varsity figure skating team has reached the OUA podium, after having claimed silver a season ago.
Helping lead the way for the Gryphons at the 2024 OUA Figure Skating Championships was
Olivia Farrow (Oakville, ON). Farrow, a human kinetics major at U of G, was skating for the final time as a Gryphon, and made the most of her final varsity event, reaching the podium on three separate occasions with 2 golds and 1 silver. Farrow successfully defended her OUA gold from a season ago in the open rhythm couples dance, by once again topping the podium alongside
Kendra Knott. Farrow also claimed gold alongside teammates
Helene Carle,
Catherine Carle and
Ashley Goodliff in the pairs fours. The only other Gryphon skater to take home three medals was
Helene Carle, with the Georgetown, Ontario resident also among the list of Gryphons skating for the final time in the red, black and gold.
Helene Carle finished the two-day event by claiming 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze at the 2024 OUA Championships. Rounding out the Gryphons OUA gold medal performances was
Emma Carlucci (2nd-year, Sault Ste. Marie) and
Lucy Street (1st-year, Lady Smith, B.C.) taking top spot in intermediate couples pairs. See below for more details on the 2024 OUA Figure Skating Championships, or visit
www.oua.ca for more.
Gryphon Medals at the 2024 OUA Figure Skating Championships
Gold
Olivia Farrow &
Kendra Knott (Open Rhythm Couples Dance)
Olivia Farrow,
Helene Carle,
Catherine Carle,
Ashley Goodliff (Pairs Fours)
Emma Carlucci,
Lucy Street (Intermediate Couples Pairs)
Silver
Helene Carle &
Olivia Farrow (Senior Couples Pairs)
Catherine Carle (Gold Women Free Program)
Guelph
(Synchro)
Bronze
Zoe Graziano (Star 10 Women Solo Dance)
Helene Carle (Novice Women Short Program)
Final Standings
1. Western – 89
2. Toronto – 86
3. Guelph – 76
4. Queen's – 48
5. McMaster – 40
6. Waterloo – 34
7. Brock – 26
T-8. Carleton – 2
T-8. TMU – 2
T-8. York – 2
OUA Coach of the Year
Emily McCarthy, Brock
OUA Team Spirit Award
Brock Badgers
Final Results
Star 8/9 Couples Dance
1. Queen's (Jade Paganelli, Juliana Ye)
2. Toronto (Katelyn Pavlidis, Hugo Li)
3. Western (Michelle Wong, Kelly Song)
Open Gold Artistic
1. Western (Evelyn Walsh)
2. Queen's (Zander Neilsen)
3. Toronto (Erin Ng)
Star 10 Women Solo Dance
1. Toronto (Katelyn Pavlidis)
2. Western (Michelle Wong)
3. Guelph (Zoe Graziano)
Senior Couples Pairs
1. Toronto (Hugo Li, Gabriella Guo)
2. Guelph (Helene Carle, Olivia Farrow)
3. McMaster (Catalina Costiuc, Alistair Lam)
Open Rhythm Couples Dance
1. Guelph (Olivia Farrow, Kendra Knott)
2. Western (Natalie D'Alessandro, Hannah Gray)
3. Waterloo (Rebecca Brown, Karina Wilk)
Novice Women Short Program
1. Toronto (Gabriella Guo)
2. Brock (Alyssa Cross)
3. Guelph (Helene Carle)
Dance Fours
1. Western (Natalie D'Alessandro, Victoria Morgado, Josh Andari, Keanna Davidson)
2. Waterloo (Darshak Patel, Rebecca Brown, Annika Zamora, Karina Wilk)
3. Brock (Alyssa Cross, Camile DeThomasis, Hayley Keith, Kaia Fogh)
Pairs Fours
1. Guelph (Helene Carle, Olivia Farrow, Ashley Goodliff, Catherine Carle)
2. Toronto (Katelyn Pavlidis, Gabriella Guo, Nicole Chan, Karisa Wang)
3. Waterloo (Kaitlin Wilk, Rowan Staines, Isabelle Wang, Edward Wang)
Star 10 Couples Dance
1. Western (Victoria Morgado, Josh Andari)
2. Toronto (Emily Cleghorn, Nicholas Grozdanovski)
3. Waterloo (Emmaline Stark, Emma Wai)
Intermediate Couples Pairs
1. Guelph (Emma Carlucci, Lucy Street)
2. Toronto (Olivia Pulsifer, Nicole Chan)
3. Brock (Trinity Males, Olivia Hussey)
Gold Women Solo Dance
1. Western (Natalie D'Alessandro)
2. Toronto (Nina Xuan)
3. Queen's (Colleen Tordoff)
Gold Women Free Program
1. McMaster (Amanda Tobin)
2. Guelph (Catherine Carle)
3. Toronto (Victoria Bocknek)
Open Men Free Program
1. McMaster (Alistair Lam)
2. Toronto (Hugo Li)
3. Western (Cole Van Der Velden)
Synchro
1. Western
2. Guelph
3. Queen's
