Alison Schumacher


Alison Schumacher is a Canadian figure skater who competes in ladies' singles. She is the 2020 Canadian national silver medalist. She has represented Canada at three ISU Championships, finishing within the top ten at two World Junior Championships.

Early life

Alison Schumacher was born in Zhuzhou, China on 22 November 2002. She later moved to Tecumseh, Ontario. She began skating in 2007. At age 5, she went to Riverside Skating Club.

Skating career

At age 9, Schumacher competed in her first international competition, Skate Detroit, where she finished in fourth place. By age 11, Schumacher was the youngest solo skater at Skate Canada Development Camp.
In the 2017–18 season, she competed in both junior ladies singles and junior pairs with Zachary Daleman. At the 2018 Canadian Championships, she placed fifth in the junior ladies' event and eighth in junior pairs.

2018–19 season

Schumacher began the season competing on the Junior Grand Prix, finishing ninth at JGP Slovakia, before finishing twelfth at JGP Canada. In November 2018, Schumacher won gold at the Skate Ontario Sectionals, securing a place at the 2019 Canadian Championships as a senior competitor domestically. There, she placed fourth in the short program with a score of 60.10 and finished seventh overall.
Canada named Schumacher to its team for the 2019 World Junior Championships, where she finished in tenth place.

2019–20 season

Given two assignments on the Junior Grand Prix, Schumacher placed eighteenth at JGP France and then seventh at JGP Croatia. Sent afterward to make her international senior debut on the Challenger series, Schumacher placed eighth at the 2019 CS Warsaw Cup.
A podium contender at the 2020 Canadian Championships, Schumacher placed sixth in the short program after falling on her attempted triple flip-triple toe loop combination. She placed second in the free skate, rising to the silver medal position overall. With national champion Emily Bausback lacking the technical minimum scores necessary to compete at the 2020 World Championships, Skate Canada deferred on making ladies' assignments for that event, and assigned Schumacher, Bausback and fourth-place Alicia Pineault to compete at the 2020 Four Continents Championships in Seoul. She placed fourteenth at Four Continents, finishing head of Bausback but four places and nearly 23 points behind Pineault.
Schumacher finished the season at the 2020 World Junior Championships, where she placed ninth, setting new personal bests in both segments and overall.

Programs

Competitive highlights

Ladies' singles

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Pairs with Daleman

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

Senior results

Junior results