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Skate America: an Oasis of Skating

October 25, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

For a moment, just before Keegan Messing was about to begin his “November Rain” long program at Skate America on Saturday, he thought about others. “This is for you guys in Canada, to everybody who has to stay at home,” thought the Canadian skater, the only competitor from the land of the maple leaf to […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alexa Scimeca Knierim, Bradie Tennell, Brandon Frazier, Keegan Messing, Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue, Mariah Bell, Nathan Chen, Skate America, Vincent Zhou

Skate America Happens!

October 24, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Keegan Messing turned his back to the camera and pointed with both hands to the CANADA emblazoned across the back of his team jacket: the only Canadian figure skater to compete at any of the Grand Prix events this season. He has become the beacon of the Canadian side, through unfortunate circumstance as the […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alexa Scimeca Knierim, Bradie Tennell, Keegan Messing, Mariah Bell, Nathan Chen, Skate America, Vincent Zhou

Keegan Messing: Perfect. Well, Almost

January 18, 2020 By Beverley Leave a Comment

His wedding day back in August up in Alaska doesn’t grow old for Keegan Messing. He’s still celebrating it. He won the men’s short program at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships with a routine dedicated to his wife, Lane, using the music from their first dance: “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran. The one thought on […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championshipse, Joseph Phan, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky

Messing’s Hard Journey

January 16, 2020 By Beverley 1 Comment

Keegan Messing lived the best of times and the worst of times, all within a couple of months; married in a charming Alaska-style wedding in August, then stunned by the loss of his younger brother, Paxon, in a motorcycle accident in September. Life seemed to stop. In his heart, you could hear a moth pass. […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, Paxon Messing, Ralph Burghart

“Keegs”

October 18, 2019 By Beverley 1 Comment

What a night. Keegan Messing finished third in the men’s short program at Skate America. But he won much more than a placing. About a month ago, his younger brother, Paxon, a father of three little ones, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Alaska. I heard the news by text in the waiting room […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Charles Aznavour, Jason Brown, Keegan Messing, Nathan Chen

Hardly Birds of a Feather

August 26, 2019 By Beverley 1 Comment

Ever see the internet photos of the cats curled up with canaries, cozy and all? Fawns and owls cavorting happily with dogs? Chimpanzees stroking kittens? Heifers licking up turtles with long tongues, happy as clams? Count Nam Nguyen, the son of Vietnamese boat people and Keegan Messing, man of the north woods, in with those […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alaska, Donald Jackson, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, North York Summer Skate, Robert Burk, Toronto

Keegan Messing: Perfect Duet

August 23, 2019 By Beverley 1 Comment

The Pink Panther has faded. Singing in the Rain has dried up. Charlie Chaplin has waddled into the sunset. The Keegan Messing of yesterday is not altogether the same as the Keegan Messing of today. He’s all grown up. (Sort of) And he’s in love. The 27-year-old Alaskan took a giant life step on Aug. […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alaska, Anchorage, Ed Sheeran, Keegan Messing, Perfect Duet

The Road Less Travelled

January 14, 2019 By Beverley Leave a Comment

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  It had to happen this way: Keegan Messing finding an endlessly adventurous way to prepare for a figure skating competition. There are no straight lines in his approach. He has swung up ladders with heavy merchandise on his back, hurled his way up tall poles, Leaped across a mountain peak or two, picked through […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anchorage, Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, earthquake, Keegan Messing, Saint John

“Pretty danged cool”

October 27, 2018 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Keegan Messing

LAVAL, Que. Keegan Messing is chalking up the good times. They keep rolling in, like a wave. Last Saturday, he got engaged on a windy mountain ridge. He forgot the matches to light up the stove for soup. Everything went wrong. But Lane Hodson said yes. “If she says yes when everything goes wrong, you […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, Shoma Uno

Keegan Messing: What Now?

August 26, 2018 By Beverley Leave a Comment

Finally, the world knows who Keegan Messing is, now that he’s turned 26. He’s a light-footed dazzler, with a penchant for rotating jumps at the speed of a tornado, and he has a collection of heart-thumping spins, to boot. If he slips and falls on anything, he has a way of skating back into an […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Keegan Messing, quad Lutz, quadruple Axel, Ralph Burghart

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