Wisconsin Inspire Skating headed to National Championship

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – The 2025 U.S. Synchronized Staking Championships are this Saturday in Colorado Springs and a local team is one of the 98 teams competing.

Wisconsin Inspire Intermediate Synchronized Skating team will represent the state at intermediate Nationals, after they placed second at sectionals.

Last season, Inspire took fourth at Nationals and return a majority of skaters this season. The skaters are from Beaver Dam, Madison and Milwaukee-areas. Due to limited rink availability, Inspire travels between all three cities to practice.

Seventeen-year-old Cameron Johnson has competed at nationals four times. He gets into a flow state while competing.

“I black out during performances, but you enter this sort of like flow state where everything is kind of happening in the moment,” Johnson said. “Moments come and go, but you know you’re present within each one and in those types of moments and those types of areas, it really it’s just such a great experience. And it’s just, it just comes right out and it’s really fun to dance and do choreography.”

Coach Megan Roquet added what an honor it is to represent the state at nationals.

“We’ve heard so much from other members of the skating community how honoured they are to have us going, the nationals representing Wisconsin and the Madison-area and southwest Wisconsin as a whole,” Roquet said. “So we know we’ve got a lot of people support, which always helps us and it’s it’s an honor.”

Wisconsin Inspire will compete on Saturday.

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