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Keegan Messing: Canadian Champion.

January 9, 2022 By Beverley 1 Comment

Keegan Messing finally did it. After nine seasons skating for Canada, Keegs won his first national title, doing it the hardest way possible: in a pandemic, with skates that didn’t arrive (at first), with his best friend suffering from COVID, with a trip from hell to get to the national skating championships in Ottawa. Somehow, […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky, Wesley Chiu

Keegan Messing: Of Chainsaws and Car Batteries

March 17, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  It’s true, these are different times, but nobody on the planet prepares for a world figure skating championship the way Keegan Messing does. Nobody. The rope-climbing, ladder-ascending, pole-clinging, Lazy Boy-toting, Husky-loving, old car-tinkerer and iceberg paddler of a mountain man from Alaska had to resort to new tricks during a pandemic. The gym was […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: chainsaws, Keegan Messing, Lane, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky, world figure skating championships

A Challenge to the Finish

January 18, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

“Show me a garden that’s bursting into life,” go the words to the song “Chasing Cars,” a hypnotic tune done by the Irish/Scottish rock band Snow Patrol. And so goes Roman Sadovsky, who won the senior men’s event at the Skate Canada Challenge event on Sunday. After winning his first national title last year – […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Corey Circelli, Joni Mitchell, Nam Nguyen, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, Roman Sadovsky, Skate Canada Challenge

Light in a Dark Place: Seniors

January 16, 2021 By Beverley Leave a Comment

  Reigning Canadian champion Roman Sadovsky found it hard to watch himself, remotely, at home in front of a screen, competing at the Skate Canada Challenge – which being that the national championships have been cancelled due to COVID-19 – remains the closest thing to it. When Sadovsky performed his virtual routines about six weeks […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Allison Schumachernlisonaalle, Conrad Orzel, Corey Circelli, Emily Bausback, Joseph Pfan, Kaiya Ruiter, Nam Nguyen, Roman Sadovsky, Skate Canada Challenge

World Figure Skating Championships: Cancelled

March 11, 2020 By Beverley 2 Comments

    At last, the hammer came down. There will be no world figure skating championships this year, for the first time in 59 years when a plane crash killed the U.S. team and scuttled the most important event of the year. The Quebec health ministry decided to spare spectators and competitors and officials and […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Kirsten Moore-Towers, Lorenzo Magri, Montreal, Nam Nguyen, Nathan Chen, world figure skating championships, Yuzuru Hanyu

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

Nam Nguyen: Growing is Believing

September 23, 2019 By Beverley 2 Comments

Somehow Nam Nguyen has grown to be 5-foot-11, sometime after that bustling childhood, when as a tiny one, he set all sorts of records: youngest to be pre-juvenile, juvenile, novice, and junior champion of Canada. Now he’s 21. At 20, he finally began to find his footing in matters other than physical growth, all of […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Beatles, Blues for Klook, Mary Anglea Larmer, Nam Nguyen, Robert Burk, Stars On Iceue

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

“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

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