North Vancouver’s Shane Firus and Quebec’s Carolane Soucisse partnered to win bronze in the senior ice dance category at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships held last week in Mississauga.
Firus and Soucisse placed third in both the rhythm dance and free dance with a total score of 190.29, finishing behind Ontario’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier (225.62) and Quebec’s Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha (198.92).
Firus, 25, and 24-year-old Soucisse will travel to Seoul, South Korea next week to represent Canada at the Four Continents Skating Championships running Feb. 4-9. The pair won silver at the 2018 Four Continents championships – an event open to skaters from all non-European countries – held in Taipei.
Firus and Soucisse partnered in 2016. They train in Montreal with the coaching team of Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon, a wife and husband team that formerly coached ice dance darlings Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.
