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Kaiya Ruiter (born 30 May 2006) is a Canadian figure skater. She is the 2022 CS Ice Challenge silver medalist.

Kaiya Ruiter
Personal information
Country represented	Canada
Born	(2006-05-30) 30 May 2006 (age 16) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Home town	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Height	1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Coach	Scott Davis Jeff Langdon
Former coach	Ravi Walia Darlene Joseph
Choreographer	Jeff Langdon David Wilson
Former choreographer	Scott Myles
Skating club	Calalta Figure Skating Club
Training locations	Calgary
Began skating	2010
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	179.92 2022 JGP France II
Short program	63.17 2022 JGP France II
Free skate	118.10 2022 JGP France I

On the junior level, Ruiter is the 2022 JGP France I silver medalist, the 2022 JGP France II bronze medalist, and the 2020 Canadian junior national champion.

Personal life

Ruiter was born on 30 May 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario to parents Kris and Victoria. She is the second of four children. Her three sisters – Keaghan, Vaunya, and Vyan – have all competed in figure skating.[1] Ruiter attends school through a homeschooling program.[2]

Career

Early years

Ruiter began learning how to skate at age four with her parents and sisters on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. She officially began training at age six at the Gloucester Skating Club under Darlene Joseph.[2]

Ruiter's family relocated from Ottawa to Edmonton in 2016 when Ruiter was 10, and there she began training under Ravi Walia, coach of the 2018 Olympic bronze medalist Kaetlyn Osmond. However, 10 months later, the family moved again, this time to Calgary, and Ruiter began working with her current coaches, Jeff Langdon and Scott Davis, per Walia's recommendation. Ruiter landed her first triple jump, a triple toeloop, in November 2018, and went on to learn the rest of her triple jumps, as well as triple-triple combinations, within a year.[1]

In January 2019, Ruiter won the 2019 Canadian novice national title, setting a new national record for the novice women's event with a score of 139.57 (later broken by Amy Shao Ning Yang in 2020).[3] The following month, she competed at her first international assignment, the 2019 Bavarian Open, where she placed third in the novice women's category behind Kimmy Repond of Switzerland, and Lindsay Thorngren from the United States.[4]

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–2023 [5]	I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston performed by Rachel Beck One Last Dance Before I Go by Karl Hugo choreo. by Jeff Langdon	Inspiration by Florian Christl & The Modern String Quintet choreo. by David Wilson
2020–2022 [6]	Opportunity by Sia choreo. by Jeff Langdon	Mulan by Harry Gregson-Williams Loyal Brave True by Christina Aguilera choreo. by David Wilson	You Can't Stop the Girl by Bebe Rexha
2019–2020 [7]	Oh Heart by Tank and the Bangas choreo. by Jeff Langdon, Scott Myles	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Patrick Doyle choreo. by Jeff Langdon, Scott Myles

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix.

International [8]
Event	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
CS Ice Challenge					2nd
International: Junior [8]
Junior Worlds		31st
JGP France				2nd1
				3rd2
JGP Italy		6th
JGP Latvia		11th
Bavarian Open		1st
International: Advanced novice [8]
Bavarian Open	3rd
National [8]
Canadian Champ.	1st N	1st J	C
AB-NWT/Nunavut Sectionals	1st N	1st J	WD		1st
1JGP France I; 2JGP France II TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Canceled Levels: N = Advanced novice, J = Junior

References

External links

• Kaiya Ruiter at the International Skating Union

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