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Season 3: Episode 52 (March 18, 2025)
General Skating News
- Brian Boitano is hosting a special Boitano Lounge at the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships. He will be joined by Olympic legends. It will take place Thursday, March 27 from 5-7pm at the TD Garden. The event will benefit the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs.
- Tickets: https://usopm.org/boston/
- Brian Boitano will also be hosting his regular Boitano Lounges on Friday, Saturday and Sunday:https://fs12.formsite.com/USFSAIT/zxlkyvwqvl/index
- Ashley Wagner and Adam Rippon will be doing a live broadcast of their “Runthrough” podcast at Worlds. It will take place on Saturday, March 29 from 9-11am at Banners Kitchen and Tap next to the TD Garden.
- The Harvard Club of Boston is hosting a panel discussion on Thursday, March 20 featuring Tenley Albright, Paul George, Sofia Jarmoc, Suna Murray, Misha Petkevic and Paul Wylie.
- Learn to Skate USA SkateFests is hosting an event, Celebrating AAPI Excellence: Together on Ice, on Saturday, March 29 at the Steriti Ice Arena in Boston.
- Skate Canada announced the first recipients of the Skate Global Foundation grant, which was launched in 2024 to support Canada’s Indigenous, Black, and racially marginalized athletes.
- The 2025 grant recipients are:
- Ian Boudreault
- Nathan Lickers
- Kieran Thrasher
- The 2025 grant recipients are:
- Ilia Malinin is a finalist for the AAU Sullivan Award.
- Fans can vote once per day until March 20: https://t.co/EgtNvPWJHw / https://aausullivan.secure-platform.com/95th/gallery?roundId=8
- Figure Skating in Harlem will hold its 28th annual ice show, “Harlem Goes Hollywood” on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 at Riverbank State Park in New York.
Event Results Brief
- Coupe du Printemps
- Budapest Cup (Synchro)
- Daugava Open Cup
- 50th Annual Howard E. Van Camp Invitational (solo dance series)
Upcoming Events for the Week
| DATES | EVENT | LOCATION |
| Mar. 21-23 | 2025 Morris Open (National Solo Dance Series) | Morristown, NJ |
Online Updates:
| Date | Post/Information | Platform |
| March 12 | Canadian ice dancers Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont have announced the end of their partnership. | |
| March 11 | French junior ice dancers Eva Bernard and Amedeo Bonetto announced the end of their partnership. | |
| March 13 | Slovakian junior ice dancers Aneta Vaclavikova and Ivan Morozov announced the end of their partnership | |
| March 11 | Audrey Shin and Balazs Nagy appeared in a YouTube video with Korean content creators Team1llusion who do martial arts and acrobat tricks. | YouTube |
| March 13 | Diversify Ice shared on Instagram that it is on a mission to open the first-ever black-owned ice rink and skating museum. | |
| March 14 | Ukrainian ice dancer Mariia Holubtsova posted that a few nights ago, the Montreal apartment of ice dancers Kyryl Bielobrov of Ukraine and Marko Gaidajenko of Estonia was completely destroyed in a fire. They lost everything. | Instagram/GoFundMe |
| Date | Article Subject | Outlet/Outlet Type |
| March 6 | Hopkins Public Schools in Minnesota did a alumni corner on Alex Johnson | Hopkins Public School |
| March 11 | Synchronized Skaters Thrive On the Ice, In the Classroom and On the Job | U.S. Figure Skating |
| March 12 | Close Friends Hubbell and Papadakis Come Together to Create Magic on the Ice | U.S. Figure Skating |
| March 13 | Interview with Ukrainian ice dancers Iryna Pidgaina & Artem Koval | Golden Skate |
| March 16 | Olympians Chris and Alexa Knierim Are Expecting! Figure Skater Is Pregnant with Her First Baby | People Magazine |
| March 17 | Interview with Matteo Rizzo | Europe on Ice |
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