The Synchro Skaters Club

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 chang...

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?