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Beharry and Bobak, one hot junior pair
Dec. 24 2011 - Guelph Mercury. Guelph skaters Ian Beharry and Katie Bobak might just be the hottest pair in international junior figure skating. "The way it feels is amazing," Bobak said this week prior to a workout at the RIM Park arena. "I couldn?t ask for anything better... READ MORE

Bobak, Beharry capture junior pairs silver at Grand Prix Final
Dec. 9 2011 - The Record. Katherine Bobak and Ian Beharry continued their rise up the figure skating ranks Friday, capturing a silver medal in the junior pairs competition at the ISU Grand Prix Final. Bobak and Beharry, who train at the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club, earned a... READ MORE

Learning to skate
Dec. 2011 - Today's Parent. Karen De Vito, a lifelong skater, first put her son Jackson in skates when he was just a toddler. "It took him until he was about three to find his feet, to get up and get moving," she says. "By four, he was booking it around the rink at top speed pushing on only one leg," she laughs... READ MORE

Canada's Weaver, Poje win ice dancing silver
Nov. 12 2011 - The Globe and Mail. Canadian ice dancers Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje captured their second silver medal of the Grand Prix season, finishing second Saturday at the NHK Trophy. Their performance puts the duo from Waterloo, Ont., in good position for a spot in the Grand Prix Final... READ MORE

K-W skating pair Moore-Towers, Moscovitch skate to pairs bronze in ISU Grand Prix
Nov. 5 2011 - The Record. Canada's Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch captured bronze in pairs Saturday on the third stop of the ISU Grand Prix figure skating circuit, their second third-place finish this season. The performance puts the Canadian... READ MORE

Virtue and Moir take gold; Waterloo's Weaver and Poje, silver
Oct. 30 2011 - The Record. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are back on top. Canada's Olympic ice dance champions returned to the elite Grand Prix level for the first time since a 2010-11 season wrecked by injury and the relinquishment of their world title to win gold at the... READ MORE

K-W Skating Club pair takes bronze at Skate America
Oct. 23 2011 - The Record. Alissa Czisny edged Italy's Carolina Kostner by 0.13 points to win the women's title at Skate America on Sunday even though the American fell on one of her seven triple jumps. And three-time world champions... READ MORE

Moore-Towers, Moscovitch finish third at Skate America
Oct. 23 2011 - The Globe and Mail. Three-time world champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy rallied to win the pairs title at Skate America on Sunday with a solid free program. The Germans were fifth Saturday after the short program... READ MORE

Moore-Towers, Moscovitch take bronze at Skate America
Oct. 23 2011 - TSN.ca. Not long ago Alissa Czisny would have come undone by a fall early in. her short program. She was often a mental mess, the exact opposite of her cooly elegant skating. Those days are gone. Czisny overcame a spill on the second... READ MORE

Bobak, Beharry win pair gold at Estonia Junior Grand Prix stop
Oct. 14 2011 - Skatebuzz.com. Katherine Bobak and Ian Beharry of Guelph, Ont., continued their amazing start to a new partnership on Friday winning the gold medal in pairs at the sixth and last stop on the ISU Junior Grand Prix figure skating circuit... READ MORE

KW Skating Club pair win silver in Poland
Sep. 16 2011 - The Record. Pairs skaters Katherine Bobak and Ian Beharry of the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club are silver medalists. The newly formed pair won silver Friday at the Baltic Cup Junior Grand Prix competition in Gdansk, Poland. Bobak, 17, and Beharry... READ MORE

New Canadian pair lands silver at ISU Junior Grand Prix in Poland
Sep. 16 2011 - Skatebuzz. Katherine Bobak and Ian Beharry of Guelph, Ont., completed a spectacular international debut on Friday earning the silver medal in pairs at the third stop in the ISU Junior Grand Prix figure skating circuit... READ MORE

Canadians edge Colorado teams in junior free
Aug. 1 2011 - icenetwork.com. Strong skating skills and two big throw triples propelled Katherine Bobak and Ian Beharry to victory in the junior pairs' free skate on Saturday. The Canadians, teamed by coaches Kristy and Kris Wirtz in February... READ MORE

Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje Twizzle Into the Top Five
Jul. 27 2011 - IFS Magazine. The heartbreak of not making the 2010 Canadian Olympic team has passed, but it is not forgotten. So it is, as Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje revel in their greatest leap forward on the World stage, that they... READ MORE

Weaver and Poje are still reveling in the fifth-place finish they earned at the 2011 World Championships in Moscow in April. The fetching Canadian couple said it was just sinking in, weeks after returning home from Russia... READ MORE

Skaters cherish athlete of year win
Jun. 07 2011 - Waterloo Chronicle. Waterloo figure skater Andrew Poje has been nominated for Kitchener- Waterloo Athlete of the Year many times before, losing each time. Now that he’s been named the 2011 athlete of the year, Poje is glad he lost so many... READ MORE

Weaver and Poje crowned athletes of the year
May. 26 2011 - The Record. Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje would’ve loved to be in Elmira to accept their 2010 Kitchener-Waterloo and area athletes of the year award in person. But they had a scheduling conflict on Wednesday. It might be 988 days away... READ MORE

Moore-Towers and Moscovitch: Leap of Faith
Apr. 28 2011 - IFS Magazine. They are a team still unaccustomed to life in such rare air. But ask Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch about their surprising run this season, which included a trip to the Grand Prix Final, and they will tell you they believe it could be just a... READ MORE

Waterloo skaters competing at world championships
Apr. 19 2011 - Waterloo Chronicle. Hot off a Canadian championship win in pairs figure skating, Waterloo's Dylan Moscovitch and Kirsten Moore-Towers were ready to open a few eyes at the worlds in March. But the duo didn't get the chance, as the world tournament was scheduled... READ MORE

Local skaters pack their bags for Russia
Apr. 19 2011 - The Record. Kirsten Moore-Towers' and Dylan Moscovitch's season of upheaval continues into overtime. After a season of highs and lows, Canada's reigning pairs figure skating champs will attempt to find their stride again later this month at their first world championships... READ MORE

Young pairs skaters are ready for their next challenge
Mar. 23 2011 - The Record. Figure skating may be one of the coolest sports on ice, but the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club is a veritable hothouse for producing top level athletes. As Dylan Moscovitch and Kirsten Moore-Towers bloomed as senior national pairs champs at the Canadian Figure... READ MORE

NEXXICE seniors, juniors are in sync for gold
Feb. 27 2011 - Hamilton Scores. The 2011 BMO Skate Canada Synchronized Skating Championships were held Feb. 24-27, 2011 in Brampton. Representing the Burlington and Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Clubs, the Senior NEXXICE team placed first with 218.00 points overall... READ MORE

Sibling support crosses provincial borders
Feb. 24 2011 - The Chronicle Herald. Even though they are representing different provinces and staying in different hotels in the athletes' village, Ontario figure skaters Jayden and Shalena Rau are happy to have each other at the Canada Games in Halifax. Shalena, 12, said it would be an... READ MORE

Oshawa skater wins silver at Junior Nationals
Feb. 02 2011 - Durham Region Media Group. Oshawa's Anthony Furiano and partner Mary Orr, of Kitchener-Waterloo, brought home the silver medal from the 2011 BMO Skate Canada Junior Nationals in British Columbia. They skated a clean and well-executed short program, to Scott and Frans' Paso Doble... READ MORE

Canadian champs: Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch earn first senior pairs title in club history
Feb. 01 2011 - Waterloo Chronicle. When asked for the defining moment of a whirlwind skating partnership that has seen the K-W Skating Club's Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch climb to the top of Canadian pairs skating in less that two years you might be surprised at their answer... READ MORE

Moscovitch, Moore-Towers win pairs title
Jan. 28 2011 - Vancouver Sun. Meagan Duhamel was the only survivor from the Canadian pairs medal podium of one year ago, and at age 25, she was starting all over with a new partner. Her former one, Craig Buntin, retired after last season, as were silver medallists Anabelle Langlois... READ MORE

Ontario Three Times Golden at 2011 BMO Figure Skating Championships
Jan. 26 2011 - Skate Ontario. In an impressive showing at the BMO Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Ontario skaters are the 2011 Canadian Champions in three out of four disciplines. The event took place this past weekend at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre in... READ MORE

'Great times' for Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club
Jan. 25 2011 - The Record. National champions. Those words haven't yet been processed by one-half of Canada's newly minted pairs skating gold-medalist team, Dylan Moscovitch. "Sometimes it comes at me in waves. And I think about it and say 'Oh, cool.' "Other times, it hits me like... READ MORE

Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch win gold
Jan. 24 2011 - goldenskate.com. The pairs event this year was seen as a rebuilding year at the Canadian Championships. None of last year's medalists are competing this year, at least in those partnerships, and without the well-known names, many were afraid that this year... READ MORE

Keeping their eyes on the prize: Second again at Canadian championships, Weaver and Poje look to the future
Jan. 24 2011 - Montreal Gazette. The big picture, to runners-up Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, is that the season isn't over yet. For the second year in a row, Toronto's Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier... READ MORE

Medals for local skaters.
Jan. 24 2011 - 570 News. Competitors from the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club brought home medals from the Canadian Figure Skating Championships this weekend. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch became the new Canadian Pairs Champions in Saturday's competition... READ MORE

DiManno: Radford, Moscovitch make world championship debuts in March.
Jan. 23 2011 - Toronto Star. Eric Radford says of Dylan Moscovitch: "My best friend and my archrival." So it's serendipity that the two will make their world championship debuts together in Tokyo in March. With their separate pairs partners of course-the ladies... READ MORE

Crone, Poirier win 'intense' dance competition.
Jan. 23 2011 - National Post. The big picture, to runners-up Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, is that the season isn't over yet. For the second year in a row, Toronto's Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier finished fractionally ahead of them ? not for an Olympic berth... READ MORE

KW Skating Club pair crowned Canadian champs.
Jan. 23 2011 - The Record. A surprising pair of skaters from the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club won gold Saturday at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in Victoria, adding to their almost fairytale partnership. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch... READ MORE

Moore-Towers, Moskovitch crowned pairs champions.
Jan. 23 2011 - The Standard. Skating to Les Miserables, Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch of the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club were anything but after their freeskate program on Saturday night. The pairs team have been together for less than two years... READ MORE

Weaver, Poje dazzle but fall short again.
Jan. 23 2011 - Edmonton Sun. Waterloo ice dancer Kaitlyn Weaver had to fight almost as hard after the free dance on Sunday as she did on the ice. For the third straight year, Weaver and her partner Andrew Poje, finished behind Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier at the Canadian... READ MORE

K-W Skating Club pair crowned Canadian champs.
Jan. 23 2011 - The Spec. A surprising pair of skaters from the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club won gold Saturday at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in Victoria, adding to their almost fairytale partnership. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch have... READ MORE

Moore-Towers, Moskovitch capture Canadian pairs title.
Jan. 23 2011 - Niagara Falls Review. Skating to Les Miserables, Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch of the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club were anything but after their freeskate program on Saturday night. The pairs team have been together for less than two years... READ MORE

Moore-Towers, Moscovitch skate away with win.
Jan. 23 2011 - Toronto Sun. Skating to Les Miserables, Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch of the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club where anything but after their freeskate program on Saturday night. The pairs team have been together for less than two years, but were... READ MORE

Moore-Towers and Moscovitch soar to unexpected heights.
Jan. 23 2011 - The Globe and Mail. Dylan Moscovitch and Eric Radford have a strange kind of relationship. They've competed against each other in men's figure skating since they were novice skaters. They've been arch-rivals. Yet they are friends. The relationship went... READ MORE

Moore-Towers and Moscovitch win pairs crown.
Jan. 23 2011 - Times Colonist. It was there for the taking. And the pairs teams of Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch of Waterloo, Ont., and Meaghan Duhamel of Saint-Leonard, Que., and Eric Radford of Lively, Ont., grabbed it for all it as worth at the 2011... READ MORE

Local skater, partner win short program.
Jan. 22 2011 - The Standard. Waterloo skater Dylan Moscovitch plans to enjoy a long career with the Canadian national team. He and his partner Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines have broken onto the international pairs scene in a huge way this season, improving... READ MORE

Moscovitch, Moore-Towers continue climb up the ranks.
Jan. 22 2011 - The Globe and Mail. Dylan Moscovitch admits that he and partner Kirsten Moore-Towers have had a dream season. The dream continued on Friday when they won the short program over nine other pairs at the Canadian figure skating championships. The team, fifth... READ MORE

Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier lead after Short Dance.
Jan. 22 2011 - goldenskate.com. The dance competition promised to be a battle, and it has certainly been set up that way for Sunday's free dance. Fighting for the title are Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier (CO) and Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje (NO), separated after Friday's... READ MORE

Moscovitch has killer moves on and off ice.
Jan. 21 2011 - The Toronto Sun. Waterloo skater Dylan Moscovitch plans to enjoy a long career with the Canadian national team. He and his partner Kirsten Moore-Towers have broken on to the international pairs scene in a huge way this season, improving from a fifth-place... READ MORE

Moore-Towers, Moscovitch take pairs lead.
Jan. 21 2011 - The Record. Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ont., and Dylan Moscovitch of Waterloo, Ont., continued their climb up the skating ranks Friday, winning the pairs short program at the Canadian figure skating championships. Moore-Towers... READ MORE

Moore-Towers, Moscovitch take pairs lead at Canadian figure skating champs.
Jan. 21, 2011 - Winnipeg Free Press. VICTORIA - Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catherines, Ont., and Dylan Moscovitch of Waterloo, Ont., continued their climb up the skating ranks Friday, winning the pairs short program at the Canadian figure skating championships... READ MORE

DiManno: Odd couple skating for pairs gold in 'dream season'.
Jan. 21 2011 - Toronto Star. Kirsten Moore-Towers's interests: going to the beach, shopping and scrapbooking. Dylan Moscovitch's interests: cars, snowboarding, martial arts. Moore-Towers is 18. Moscovitch is 26. Nowhere other than figure skating, perhaps, would ... READ MORE

Ice dance competition is up for grabs.
Jan. 21 2011 - The Whig Standard. Waterloo ice dancer Kaitlyn Weaver had some food for thought on the eve of the Canadian figure skating championships. Yes, she said, Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are not competing, but the rest of the field isn't... READ MORE

With top teams out, pairs competition wide open.
Jan. 20 2011 - Montreal Gazette. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch have known each other for years. They both skate out of the Kitchener-Waterloo club in Ontario and lived down the hall from each other in an apartment. Moore-Towers was also best friends with... READ MORE

With top teams out, pairs competition wide open.
Jan. 20 2011 - canada.com. Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch have known each other for years. They both skate out of the Kitchener-Waterloo club in Ontario and lived down the hall from each other in an apartment. Moore-Towers was also best friends with... READ MORE

Skate Ontario Introduces the 2011 Canada Winter Games Team.
Jan. 20 2011 - Skate Ontario. Skate Ontario is pleased to introduce the members of the 2011 Canada Winter Games Figure Skating Team. This team brings great potential to Team Ontario and is looking forward to carrying on the tradition of strong performances... READ MORE

Canada's ice dance party.
Jan. 20 2011 - The Toronto Sun. Waterloo ice dancer Kaitlyn Weaver had some food for thought on the eve of the Canadian figure skating championships. Yes, she said, Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are not competing, but the rest of the field isn't exactly... READ MORE

Novice Champions Crowned in Victoria.
Jan. 20, 2011 - Skatebuzz.com. It was quite the day of skating at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in beautiful Victoria. The novice events finished with the free programs and free dances and the pair teams kicked off the start of the junior competition... READ MORE

KW Skating Club pair wins gold.
Jan. 19, 2011 - The Record. It was a big day for the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club at the Skate Canada junior nationals in Victoria, B.C. on Tuesday. Novice pair skaters Shalena Rau and Phelan Simpson earned gold medals while fellow club members... READ MORE

Shalena Rau and Phelan Simpson win novice gold.
Jan. 19, 2011 - goldenskate.com Overnight leaders Shalena Rau and Phelan Simpson (WO) did not look back during their Ragtime program that let their personalities shine through. Their only noticeable mistake was a step-out of their throw triple... READ MORE

Canadian figure skating starts fresh at this year's championships.
Jan. 18, 2011 - The Record. In a post-Olympic season marked by change, the only given at this year's Canadian figure skating championship is that the podium will look nothing like last year's. Two-time world silver medallist Patrick Chan is the only... READ MORE

Moore-Towers, Moscovitch take centre stage at nationals.
Jan. 18, 2011 - cbc.ca. Here's a story perfect for television. Dylan Moscovitch has to find a new pairs figure skating partner because his sister's career has come to an end due to injury. He's 24 and knows it's not time to pack it in. So the... READ MORE

Shalena Rau and Phelan Simpson lead novice pairs.
Jan. 18, 2011 - goldenskate.com. At 12 years old and 4'3", Shalena Rau is the youngest and smallest competitor in the novice pairs event. Her partner, Phelan Simpson, is the youngest boy in the event. However, at their second year... READ MORE

Local skaters set for nationals.
Jan. 17, 2011 - The Record. A record 11 dance and pairs teams from the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club will compete at this week's national figure skating championships in Victoria, B.C. Headlining the senior nationals pairs competition will be... READ MORE

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