The Synchro Skaters Club

Season 2 Episode 20! Carla Gagnon is making sure synchro moves with the times. As the Co-founder of the Synchro Skate App, she talks all things technology, what her app aims to do and how you can get involved in the future of synchro.

Season 2 Episode 19! One could say this is the pinnacle episode of the podcast season. Brie talks to coach Amélie Brochu and captains Julia Bernardo & Olivia Di Giandomenico of Les Suprêmes Senior! The reigning world champions talk all things about the 25/26 season and their 4-peat gold medal.

Season 2 Episode 18! Joined once again by Victoria Heald, her and Brie break down the 2026 World Synchronized Skating Championships! Held in Salzburg, Austria on the 10th and 11th of April, the worlds best senior teams had their face off. There was some drama, some falls and lots of fun.PS. Sorry this one is a week late!

Season 2 Episode 16! Please welcome the reigning junior world champions, Helsinki Fintastic to the podcast! The lovely captains Emilia Markkula and Eevi Oksanen join Brie and Lily to discuss their 25/26 season!

Season 2 Episode 16! OneTeamMVMT is THE synchro organisation, and Lisa Carriere is it's founder. She shares her personal synchro history, what it is like running OneTeamMVMT and all the exciting things the organisation has coming up, in particular the OneTeamMVMT synchro skills camps.

Season 2 Episode 15! Worlds is here and done! Just like last season, we talk through all the teams, their skates and their scores, as well as your feedback from the competition. Huge congratulations to everyone that competed, as well as all the skaters that have worked incredibly hard all season around the globe in the Junior category! This episode Sabrina is joined by Senior skater, OneTeamMVMT ambassador and good friend, Lily Hall.

Season 2 Episode 14! We sit down with the incredible Amélie De Tomi, Co-Founder and Chief Editor of the independent synchronized skating news platform, Jura Synchro. We talk about all the time, energy and behind the scenes work that has gone into running Jura for the last 10 years, as well as Amélie's own synchro journey.

Season 2 Episode 13! A breakdown of the FINAL challenger series competition - Marie Lundmark Trophy, held from February 7-8 in Turku, Finland. Sabrina breaks down all the scores for Junior and Senior, followed by your feedback on the competition.

Season 2 Epsiode 12! Joined by senior synchro skater and friend, Victoria Heald, we break down our thoughts on the International Classic in the USA. The third Challenger was held in Norwood, USA on the 30th and 31st of January; with 8 teams in Senior and 9 in Junior, we watched all the programs and talk about our favourite parts of the competition!

Season 2 Episode 11! We walk through challenger number two - all 33 teams across the ISU Junior and Senior categories. Lumière Cup was held from the 22nd-24th of January in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Season 2 Episode 10! Bit of a season catch up, where we talk about some of the other recent important competitions, like Canadian Nationals and what is happening in Russia. We then go through a bunch of instagram stories and your feedback on how the season is progressing!

Season 2 Episode 9! The Challengers have officially begun. We break down the skates and scores from the Britannia cup that was held from the 9th to 10th of January in Nottingham, England.

Season 2 Episode 8! Over the last month, there has been some prettty exciting news in the synchro community - inclusion in the youth winter Olympics and the annoucement of the new category Synchro9. We talk through all the statements and press releases, the go through your thoughts and comments. A follow on from our meme debut on Instagram.

Season 2 Episode 7! Following on from last season, we wanted to learn more about one of the senior teams on the world stage. We were joined with the incredible Lorena Bubcso, the current captain of Team Passion from Hungary! We talk about her personal skating journey, following in her mothers footsteps, to joining Passion, and what skating on the nation's best and only senior team is like.

Season 2 Episode 6! The new season is now in full swing, so we do our first update and recap of all things 2025/2026 synchro! Dresses, themes and competition results, lets make sure we are all up to date.

Season 2 Episode 5! This is a follow along from last weeks episode, except we are joined with a very special guest - Marta Pietrasik, a retired Les Supremes skater, an Iron Man extrodanier, a masters student and a survivor. She shares her journey and recovery, alongside the research she has done on disordered eating and eating disorders in performance based sports.

Season 2 Episode 4! Trigger warning for a very serious topic. We break down the important topic of body image within our performance based sport. It can be incredibly hard when everyone is expected to the same be or look the same on the ice. Discussing our personal experiences, followed by the listeners experiences from Instagram polls, be sure to be kind to yourself and wary when listening to this episode.

Season 2 Episode 3! Literally of the back of an Emmy nomination!!! We talk to Vashti Lonsdale about her skating career in both figure and synchro, her connection and commitement to Figure Skating in Harlem, and of course, everything about the Disney+ docuseries and the club that is changing young girls lives. Note - Afton is away this week! Her big girl job has her away, but not to fret, she will be back for episode 4.

Season 2 Episode 2! We had a number of requests to talk about being an alternate - so here we are! One of the hardest and most important positions to hold on a synchro team, we talk all about what makes a good alternate, our personal experiences, how to support your team from the sidelines and how to prove yourself to get onto the skating squad.

Season 2 Episode 1! Welcome back for the 2025/2026 season. We spoke about synchro mums and parents quite fair amount last season, so we thought it was only fitting to start of the new one with our very own. Meet Sam Snoad and Michelle Skilling-Cook, giving their perspective on being a synchro parent!

Season 1 Episode 22! Our final episode for the season, we talk about where to go next if you are considering retiring. Our personal experiences, your experiences, advice and how to stay involved in the sport. From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU for an incredible first season of the SSC.

Season 1 Episode 21! Pinch us because we talk to Eveliina Tikkinen and Petra Viitanen, the captains of the Helsinki Rockettes and your 2025 World Champions. Breaking down their entire season, their emotions at worlds and what this means for the team, they were so lovely to chat with!!!

Season 1 Episode 20! WOW! What a competition. The 2025 World Synchronized Skating Championships were held on the 4th and 5th of April in Helsinki, Finland. A worlds for the record books, we break down every teams performances.

Season 1 Epiosde 19! Chris Buchanan, who among many roles was head of the ISU Synchronized Skating Technical Committee for 8 years, spoke with us about the 2024/2025 season. We talk everything from the Olympics and the first WSSC, to themes, troublesome elements and rule making this year. We also got very distracted and chatted for a VERY long time, but we promise every sentence is worth it!

Season 1 Episode 18! We are so lucky to sit down with the 2025 Junior World Champions - Teams Elite Junior. Their lovely head coach Danielle Ostrower, team captain Evie Stuckey and team member Lyric O'Neal joined us for a great chat. We start right at the beginning, talking about how the season started then breakdown everything along the way to finding out they had won gold in the worlds changing room.

Season 1 Episode 17! We watched, we cheered, we screamed and we applauded. The 2025 Junior World Championships were held in Gothenburg Sweden from March 7th to 8th, so lets break the event down together. Going through every single team that skated, we want to congratulate all the competitors on their performance no matter the outcome.

Seasoon 1 Episode 16! This week, we wanted to chat about a team that deserves some more attention, and Team Berlin 1 definitely deserves it. We spoke to the lovely Shenja Li about her team and her personal skating journey.

Season 1 Episode 15! This week is a lot of chit chat, we talk about how your seasons are going, who we think is going to win worlds and the qualification process for competitions in each country. Less gossip as such, but we still managed to ramble for an hour...

Season 1 Episode 14! Our final episode covering the ISU Challenger Series. This time we cover the International Classic in Boston, the USA, held on the 7th and 8th and February. We also close up these 4 episodes with your overall thoughts on the four competitions and what we think can be improved.

Season 1, Episode 13! Lets take a look at French Cup together. Held in Rouen, France, from the 31st of January to the 1st of February, there were quite a few mistakes in the senior category, We thought Junior was the better watch and chat all your responses to our Instagram polls.

Season 1 Episode 12! Dresden Cup is the second ISU Challenger competition for the this season. Held from the 24th to the 25th of January in Germany, we watched the teams, chatted programs and broke down the scores.

Season 1 Episode 11! Lets deep dive together into the first ISU Synchronized Skating Challenger Competition. Held in Salzburg, Austria from the 16-19th of January, we discuss the fierce competition, the results, and breakdown the senior category's protocols. The first of 4 competition episodes.

Season 1 Episode 10! Joining us from Finland, Tuuli Mäkinen answers all our fangirl questions about her life in the sport. The legend spend 8 years on Team Unique and served as captain for a number of them. Chatting from grassroots and skating in one of the big three, to clearing up some of the Finland synchro rumours, we are obsessed.

Season 1 Episode 9! This week we take the floor to our lovely listeners, going through your answers to the Instagram polls and following up on the gossip. Favourite programs, least favourite competitions and the best rumours you have heard.

Season 1 Episode 8! Is it a girls world or is life in the dream house pretty seamless? We chat to the icon that is Quinn McCormick from Teams Elite (USA) about his skating journey and what it is like skating in a female dominated sport.

Season 1 Episode 7! Lets take a step behind the panel, and see what life is like as a technical specialist. This episode we talk to Amanda Clinton, a tech spec from Scotland, about her journey and some of the technical expectations this season.

Season 1 Episode 6! The season is now well and truly underway, so lets talk about the current scores, competitions and final theme announcements.

Season 1 Episode 5! Our second guest on the podcast , Ella-George Cook, talking us through her skating journey and what it is like to move overseas with synchro. A very good friend of ours, she skated with Icicles Senior in the UK and has recently taken her skating further afield - now living in Trento, Italy, she skates for Ice on Fire.

Season 1 Episode 4! Lets talk fashion (with our limited knowledge of actual fashion) in synchro - from hair, boots and tights to costumes, uniforms and even earrings. A few more personal stories this episode and lots of laughing.

Season 1 Episode 3! Privileged to have our very first guest Agathe Merlier chat with us about her synchro story. Born in and raised in France, she then spent 11 years on Les Supreme Senior and was with them for 3 world titles. Plenty to chat about!

Season 1 Episode 2! The 2024/2025 season has only just begun, so we take a look at the teams that have already skated and the themes that have been announced. Particular interest in the big three - Finland, USA and Canada.

Our very first episode! We thought we would start by taking a look back in time to see where the sport started. It makes sense to start at the beginning right?