Bruce Waddell
Bruce Waddell | |||||||||||||||||
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Country represented | Canada | ||||||||||||||||
Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | November 28, 2001||||||||||||||||
Home town | Toronto, Ontario | ||||||||||||||||
Residence | Toronto, Ontario | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Partner | Natalie D'Alessandro | ||||||||||||||||
Coach | Andrew Hallam, Tracy Wilson, Joey Russell | ||||||||||||||||
Former coach | Siobhan Karam, Patty Cranston | ||||||||||||||||
Choreographer | Romain Haguenauer | ||||||||||||||||
Skating club | Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club | ||||||||||||||||
Former skating club | Granite Club | ||||||||||||||||
Training locations | Toronto, Ontario | ||||||||||||||||
Began skating | 2002 | ||||||||||||||||
ISU personal best scores | |||||||||||||||||
Combined total | 163.04 2021 JGP Slovakia | ||||||||||||||||
Short dance | 64.48 2021 JGP Slovakia | ||||||||||||||||
Free dance | 98.56 2021 JGP Slovakia | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bruce Waddell (born November 28, 2001) is a Canadian ice dancer. With his partner, Natalie D'Alessandro, he is the 2022 Canadian national junior champion and a three-time ISU Junior Grand Prix medalist, including gold at the 2021 JGP Slovakia. They also won bronze medals in the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics team event.
Personal life[]
Waddell was born on November 28, 2001 in Toronto, Canada. He has two older brothers, twins George and Charles.[1] Charles is a former ice dancer and George currently competes in ice dance, representing Great Britain. He enjoys playing the piano and skate boarding.[2] He is the grandson of NHL hockey star Leonard "Red" Kelly and his uncle Patrick Kelly is an Olympic speed skater.[1][3] Waddell has dual Canadian-British citizenship.[1]
Skating career[]
Waddell started skating in 2002. Both he and Natalie D'Alessandro trained as singles skaters at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club, and initially tried out as a dance team at the suggestion of the TCC's dance coach, Andrew Hallam. D'Alessandro/Waddell were pre-novice champions at the 2016 Skate Canada Challenge, and then won the novice title at the 2017 Canadian Championships.[4] Making their international debut as a dance team, they placed fourth at the 2017 Bavarian Open in the advanced novice division.[5]
2017–18 season: Junior debut[]
D'Alessandro/Waddell were assigned by Skate Canada to make their debut on the ISU Junior Grand Prix, with one assignment to the 2017 JGP Australia in Brisbane.[5] Placing sixth, Waddell commented that the international competition made them "more nervous than usual."[6] Competing at the 2018 Canadian Junior Championships, they placed eighth.
2018–19 season: Junior national bronze[]
Given two assignments on the Junior Grand Prix, D'Alessandro/Waddell were fourth at the 2018 JGP Austria and sixth at the 2018 JGP Canada, the latter held in Richmond, British Columbia. Competing at the 2019 Canadian Junior Championships, they won the bronze medal.[7]
2019–20 season: First JGP medal[]
Again assigned to two events on the Junior Grand Prix, D'Alessandro/Waddell began the season at the 2019 JGP Latvia, where they placed fourth, missing the bronze medal by 0.68 points after sitting in third after the rhythm dance.[8] At their second event, the 2019 JGP Italy, they won the silver medal, the highest colour of medal won by a Canadian dance team on the Junior Grand Prix that season.[9] D'Alessandro commented afterward "seeing your name on the podium with the Canadian flag next to it is a pretty cool feeling."[4]
D'Alessandro/Waddell won the gold at the 2020 Skate Canada Challenge.[10] This would be their final domestic competition of the season, as they were assigned as part of the Canadian delegation to the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, which both had had as a longtime goal.[4] Competing in the ice dance event in Lausanne, D'Alessandro/Waddell placed third in the rhythm dance despite encountering level issues on several elements.[11] These continued in the free dance, where they placed fifth, and dropped to fourth place overall, 0.91 points behind bronze medalists Wolfkostin/Chen. Waddell said after "there were a few technical errors but I definitely still had a blast." They subsequently won a bronze medal in the team event.[12]
Skate Canada assigned D'Alessandro/Waddell to one of Canada's three berths at the 2020 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, and also to compete at the 2020 Bavarian Open in the junior division. They won the bronze medal, narrowly behind fellow Canadians Bronsard/Bouaraguia.[13] D'Alessandro/Waddell finished the season at the World Junior Championships, where they placed eleventh, narrowly behind the other Canadian teams competing, Bronsard/Bouraguia and Makita/Gunara.[14]
2020–21 season[]
With the COVID-19 pandemic severely constraining competitions, both the ISU Junior Grand Prix and the 2021 World Junior Championships were cancelled. As well, in-person domestic competition was limited, as a result of which D'Alessandro/Waddell competed only once during the season, at a virtually-held 2021 Skate Canada Challenge. They won the gold medal. The 2021 Canadian Junior Championships were subsequently cancelled.[15][16]
2021–22 season[]
With the resumption of the Junior Grand Prix, D'Alessandro/Waddell returned to international competition at the 2021 JGP Slovakia in Košice. Second in the rhythm dance behind the Russians /, they won the free dance after a poorly-designed choreographic element resulted in the Russians receiving two fall deductions, and took the gold medal. They were the only non-Russian gold medalists at the event. D'Alessandro commented on the effects of the pandemic, saying the long absence from competition "made us hungrier and more excited to come out here."[17] Weeks later at their second event, the 2021 JGP Slovenia in Ljubljana, they won the bronze medal behind Kaganovskaia/Angelopol and top Americans Wolfkostin/Chen.[18]
In November, D'Alessandro/Waddell competed at the junior event at the 2021 Ice Challenge in Graz. Second in the short program, they won the free dance and took the gold medal, their second international win of the season. Waddell assessed the result as having had "lots of positives but also a couple of negatives we weren't as happy about. But that’s super necessary for us to happen in order to realize the difference between this and an amazing performance."[19] While their results on the Junior Grand Prix had qualified them to the Junior Grand Prix Final in December, this event was cancelled as a result of restrictions prompted by the Omicron variant.[20]
Entering the 2022 Canadian Junior Championships as the favourites for the gold medal, they won both programs to take their first national junior title.[21] They were subsequently sent to compete at the Egna Trophy, taking the silver medal in the junior competition.[22]
Programs[]
Competitive highlights[]
JGP: Junior Grand Prix
With D'Alessandro[]
International: Junior[26] | |||||||
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Event | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 |
Junior Worlds | 11th | TBD | |||||
Youth Olympics | 4th | ||||||
JGP Final | C | ||||||
JGP Australia | 6th | ||||||
JGP Austria | 4th | ||||||
JGP Canada | 6th | ||||||
JGP Italy | 2nd | ||||||
JGP Latvia | 4th | ||||||
JGP Slovakia | 1st | ||||||
JGP Slovenia | 3rd | ||||||
Bavarian Open | 3rd | ||||||
Egna Trophy | 2nd | ||||||
Ice Challenge | 1st | ||||||
International: Advanced novice[5] | |||||||
Bavarian Open | 4th | ||||||
National[26] | |||||||
Canadian Champ. | 1st N | 8th J | 3rd J | [a] | C | 1st | |
SC Challenge | 1st P | 1st N | 10th J | 7th J | 1st J | 1st J | |
Ontario Sectionals | 4th J | 1st J | 1st J | WD | WD | ||
Team events[26] | |||||||
Youth Olympics | 3rd T 3rd P |
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TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: P= Pre-Novice; N = Novice; J = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only. |
- ^ Event conflict with the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
Men's singles[]
International: Advanced novice[27] | |||||||||
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Event | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 |
Coupe du Printemps | 2nd | ||||||||
National[27] | |||||||||
Canadian Champ. | 6th N | 3rd N | 11th J | 7th J | 4th J | 16th | |||
Skate Canada Challenge | 6th I | 8th N | 5th N | 10th J | 5th J | 10th J | 4th J | 12th | 10th |
Ontario Sectionals | 2nd J | 1st J | 3rd J | 6th | WD | ||||
C = Event cancelled Levels: I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior |
Detailed results[]
ISU Personal Bests highlighted in bold.
- With D'Alessandro
Junior results[]
2021–22 season | ||||
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Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
February 4–6, 2022 | 2022 Egna Dance Trophy | 2 62.62 |
2 97.09 |
2 167.06 |
January 6–12, 2022 | 2022 Canadian Junior Championships | 1 70.79 |
1 104.24 |
1 175.03 |
November 11–14, 2021 | 2021 Ice Challenge | 2 60.65 |
1 93.01 |
1 153.66 |
September 22–25, 2021 | 2021 JGP Slovenia | 2 64.26 |
3 97.53 |
3 161.79 |
September 1–4, 2021 | 2021 JGP Slovakia | 2 64.48 |
1 98.56 |
1 163.04 |
2020–21 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
January 15–17, 2021 | 2021 Skate Canada Junior Challenge | 1 68.08 |
1 101.79 |
1 169.87 |
2019–20 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
March 2–8, 2020 | 2020 World Junior Championships | 9 61.63 |
12 90.16 |
11 151.79 |
February 3–9, 2020 | 2020 Bavarian Open | 3 61.48 |
3 93.57 |
3 155.05 |
January 10–15, 2020 | 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team | – | 3 95.73 |
3T/3P |
January 10–15, 2020 | 2020 Winter Youth Olympics | 3 59.61 |
5 91.91 |
4 151.52 |
Nov. 27 – Dec. 1, 2019 | 2020 Skate Canada Junior Challenge | 1 69.79 |
1 104.53 |
1 174.32 |
October 2–5, 2019 | 2019 JGP Italy | 2 63.25 |
3 89.51 |
2 152.76 |
September 4–7, 2019 | 2019 JGP Latvia | 3 61.68 |
4 90.44 |
4 152.12 |
2018–19 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
January 13–20, 2019 | 2019 Canadian Junior Championships | 6 58.75 |
2 97.04 |
3 155.79 |
Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2018 | 2019 Skate Canada Junior Challenge | 5 58.14 |
6 88.70 |
7 146.84 |
September 12–15, 2018 | 2018 JGP Canada | 7 52.94 |
4 85.19 |
6 138.13 |
Aug. 29 – Sept. 1, 2018 | 2018 JGP Austria | 5 50.45 |
3 84.97 |
4 135.42 |
2017–18 season | ||||
Date | Event | SD | FD | Total |
January 8–14, 2018 | 2018 Canadian Junior Championships | 9 50.99 |
8 72.84 |
8 123.83 |
Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2017 | 2018 Skate Canada Junior Challenge | 11 44.90 |
7 67.92 |
10 112.82 |
August 23–26, 2017 | 2017 JGP Australia | 6 47.70 |
6 65.55 |
6 113.25 |
References[]
- ^ a b c Smith, Bev (August 29, 2017). "The Waddell Brothers: an extraordinary test". Bev Smith Writes.
- ^ a b "Natalie D'ALESSANDRO / Bruce WADDELL: 2019/2020 season". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on December 1, 2019.
- ^ "Lausanne 2020 – Report 2 – The Skating Family". Skate Ontario. January 12, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Meet Natalie D'Alessandro". Edges of Glory. January 5, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Canadian skaters set to begin 2017-2018 ISU Junior Grand Prix season in Australia". Skate Canada. August 21, 2017.
- ^ Daignault, Louis (August 26, 2017). "Canadian ice dancers win silver at ISU Junior Grand Prix". Skate Canada.
- ^ "Lajoie and Lagha win third straight junior title 2019 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships". Skate Canada. January 16, 2019.
- ^ Daignault, Louis (September 7, 2019). "Canadian ice dancers edged for bronze at ISU Junior Grand Prix". Skate Canada.
- ^ Daignault, Louis (October 5, 2019). "Kaiya Ruiter shows big improvement in second ISU Junior Grand Prix appearance". Skate Canada.
- ^ Daignault, Louis (December 1, 2019). "Madeline Schizas emerges as women's champion at 2020 Skate Canada Challenge". Skate Canada.
- ^ Daignault, Louis (January 11, 2020). "Canadian ice dancers open Youth Olympics with strong performances". Skate Canada.
- ^ Daignault, Louis (January 13, 2020). "D'Alessandro and Waddell one point short of the podium". Skate Canada.
- ^ "Canadian ice dancers shine at Bavarian Open". Skate Canada. February 9, 2020.
- ^ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships Results – Junior Ice dance". International Skating Union.
- ^ Ewing, Lori (January 16, 2021). "Madeline Schizas moves up 3 spots to win virtual Skate Canada Challenge". CBC Sports.
- ^ "2021 Skate Canada Challenge – Results". Skate Canada.
- ^ "Russia's next generation shines in Kosice at ISU Junior Grand Prix". International Skating Union. September 6, 2021.
- ^ "Russia sweeps gold medals at ISU Junior Grand Prix in Ljubljana (SLO)". International Skating Union. September 27, 2021.
- ^ "Fournier Beaudry and Sorensen on track for a third medal this season at Cup of Austria". Skate Canada. November 13, 2021.
- ^ "Figure skating Grand Prix Final cancelled over travel rules". CBC Sports. December 2, 2021.
- ^ "McIntosh and Mimar break Canadian junior pairs record at 2022 Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships". Skate Canada. January 11, 2022.
- ^ "D'Alessandro and Waddell continue fantastic season at Egna Dance Trophy with silver". Skate Canada. February 7, 2022.
- ^ "Natalie D'ALESSANDRO / Bruce WADDELL: 2021/2022 season". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on September 1, 2021.
- ^ "Natalie D'ALESSANDRO / Bruce WADDELL: 2018/2019 season". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 7, 2019.
- ^ "Natalie D'ALESSANDRO / Bruce WADDELL: 2017/2018 season". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on December 23, 2017.
- ^ a b c "Natalie D'ALESSANDRO / Bruce WADDELL: Competition Results". International Skating Union.
- ^ a b "Bruce Waddell". Stats on Ice.
External links[]
- 2001 births
- Living people
- Canadian male ice dancers
- Figure skaters at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
- Figure skaters from Toronto