First nationals for Moore-Towers with new partner

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Olympic silver medalist and St. Catharines native, Kirsten Moore-Towers is getting ready for next week’s national figure skating championships. It will be Moore-Towers first nationals with her new pairs partner, Michael Marinaro.

22-year old Kirsten Moore-Towers is a former Canadian champ, and Olympic silver medalist. Her current partner, Michael Marinaro, won silver at the world juniors two years ago.

They hope to make it to the podium for the first time together, next week at the national championships in Kingston.

Kirsten Moore-Towers: “We’ve made leaps and bounds in our first year together but there’s so much more that we both want to do, so there’s definitely motivation each day to get there, get there, get there.”

Michael Marinaro, “This will be our first national championship, one of many hopefully and we want to set the tone for our future.”

It will also be the first time Moore-Towers will be competing against her former partner, Dylan Moskovitch, with whom she competed at the Sochi Olympics. Finished fifth in the pairs, but won silver for Canada in the first-ever team competition. Two months later they ended their five-year partnership, saying they had different goals.

Kirsten says: “You know, we have to give 100% each partner. We are a team. It wouldn’t be fair to him if I was half way in a partnership.”

With Marinaro, she says her motivation has been rejuvenated, and she’s thrilled to be returning to her hometown of St. Catharines on January 30th to perform with Marinaro in the Skate Niagara Ice Show at the Meridian Centre: “The last time I probably performed in St. Catharines was at a club show when I was a kid. I’m so excited. I have so many family members there and friends and it’s gonna’ be great.”