Madeline SCHIZAS

Canada

Figure Skating

Date of Birth: 14 Feb 2003

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Place of birth: OAKVILLE, ON

Birth Country:

Canada

Residence: OAKVILLE, ON

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Figure Skating	Women Single Skating	19
	Team Event CAN Canada	4

Schedule

Location	Event	Status
Capital Indoor Stadium	Team Event - Women Single Skating - Short Program	Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium	Team Event - Women Single Skating - Free Skating	Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium	Women Single Skating - Short Program	Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium	Women Single Skating - Free Skating	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
13	Women Single Skating	2021	Stockholm, SWE

Grand Prix
Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Women Single Skating	2021/22	Sochi, RUS
8	Women Single Skating	2021/22	Vancouver, BC, CAN

Nickname:

Maddie (madelineschizas.com)

Music:

Short Program: My Sweet and Tender Beast by Evgeni Doga
Free Skating: Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini

Hobbies:

Playing piano, singing, reading, cooking and her dog. (isuresults.com; madelineschizas.com)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student.

Education:

Attended White Oaks Secondary School. Studying Urban Planning, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON) (madelineschizas.com)

Languages spoken:

English

Club name:

Milton SC

Coach:

Nancy Lemaire (CAN)
Derek Schmidt (CAN)

Debut:

2020 Challenge Cup (Single skating - 5th)

Choreographer:

Asher Hill (CAN)
Lance Vipond (CAN)

National team:

2019

Start:

2006 in Oakville. (madelineschizas.com)

Reason:

When she was six her parents took her to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and she was inspired by Canadian Joannie Rochette winning her bronze medal. (madelineschizas.com)

Ambition:

To compete at the Olympic Winter Games. "I've never been one of those kids who said like straight up that they were going to be an Olympian when they were six. But now it's definitely on my radar that I want to go to the Olympics." (cbc.ca, 16 Jan 2021)

Training:

She trains in Milton, ON. Takes ballet twice a week at a dance studio at the Milton Sports Centre. During the COVID-19 lockdown, she was taking ballet and creative dance classes over Zoom once a week. Her coaches ran off-ice classes via Zoom for two hours every day. (madelineschizas.com; ifsmagazine.com, 7 May 2020)

Memorable:

Competing in her first world championship in 2021. (Instagram)

General Interest

COVID-19
Had to train partially on an outdoor rink in Hamilton, ON at the end of 2020 when her rink closed during a lockdown. She was also able to get ice time at the York Region Skating Academy. It’s designated as an elite training centre...The outdoor ice had been quite cold. And training on that ice surface is not comparable to training in a proper centre. It was a stop-gap." (ifsmagazine.com, 7 May 2020; bevsmithwrites.com, 17 Jan 2021)

MUSIC APPRECIATION
As an accomplished pianist, she has a solid understanding of music and has a lot of input on the selections she will skate to. “My coach and I have very strong opinions so it usually takes a while before we come up with something we can both agree on." (ifsmagazine.com, 7 May 2020)

MUST LOVE DOGS
Since the age of four, she had been asking her parents for a dog. In October 2019, she got a cocker spaniel puppy named Sebastian. "One day they were saying no, and it seemed like the next we were going to pick up a dog. I worked harder for that dog than anything else in my entire life. I love dogs so much we had to stop doing off-ice outside in the summer. There would be dogs walking by and I would be just like ′Oh my God! A puppy.′” (ifsmagazine.com, 7 May 2020)

DOUBLE DUTY
Appeared as a double for skating scenes in the Netflix series "Spinning Out" in 2019. (insidehalton.com, 29 Apr 2019)

Milestones

Was one of Canada’s two entries to the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, her debut at an ISU championship. Finishing 13th earned Team Canada a berth at Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

In 2020, she made her senior debut, winning the virtual 2020 Skate Canada Challenge and becoming the Skate Canada 2020 ladies national bronze medallist.

At the 2020 Challenge Cup in The Hague, Netherlands, she became the highest-scoring Canadian senior lady (175.56) at any international event in the 2019/20 season and won Canada's only senior ladies' medal.

2019 National Junior silver medallist. 2018 Ontario Winter Games Novice champion.

Volvo Open Cup 2019 (International junior debut - Single skating - 5th)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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