A trio of skaters from Burnaby’s Champs International Skating Centre were tagged this week to represent Canada at the 2018 Skate Milwaukee competition, which concludes on Sunday.
Skate Canada selected 15 skaters for 13 events to compete at the first of three competitions, designed to introduce novice skaters to international-level meets.
Canadian pre-novice champion Melodie Zhu, 13, will make the jump to novice for the Milwaukee event. She established a new national record for women’s pre-novice skaters when she scored 109.32 at the Skate Canada Challenge last November.
From Burnaby, Shuma Mugii will skate in the novice men’s competition. At the 2018 Canadian Tire national skating championships Mugii finished 11th overall, after placing third in the 2017 B.C./Yukon pre-novice finals.
Emma Szeto was also chosen for the competition. The 13-year-old finished 14th at the national pre-novice competition last year.
All three are coached by Burnaby’s Joanne McLeod.
