Beharry and Bobak, one hot junior pair

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Rob Massey, Mercury staff
December 24, 2011

WATERLOO — Guelph skaters Ian Beharry and Katie Bobak might just be the hottest pair in international junior figure skating.

“The way it feels is amazing,” Bobak said this week prior to a workout at the RIM Park arena. “I couldn’t ask for anything better.”

Competing for the Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club, the pair has finished on the podium three times in an as many international junior events — winning gold at Estonia and silver at Poland and Quebec City.

“It’s been a great year,” Beharry said. “We’ve had other local competitions that we’ve also medalled in.”

And it’s all come in their first season together. After last winter, both were looking for new partners.

“What your coach usually does is just contact people all around, either all around Canada or just locally, other coaches to see if they have anybody for you to try out with,” Beharry said. “Katie had just recently broke up with her partner and same as me, so we decided to have a tryout.”

“We had a tryout and it just kind of went really well,” Bobak said.

It went so well, neither had a tryout with any other skater.

In front of both of their coaches — Beharry, 20, was moving over from the Preston Figure Skating Club — the pair skated a bit to see if their styles matched. Then they did some side-by-side jumps to see how similar they were.