Between the opening ceremony for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and competing in the short program of the women’s figure skating team event, Team Canada’s Madeline Schizas was quite booked on Friday.
So, it’s understandable if something fell through the cracks … like an assignment for a college class, right?
On her Instagram story on Saturday, Schizas shared exactly what happened to her: she mixed up the due date of a reflection for her college sociology class at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, where she is earning a Bachelor of Arts in Environment & Society.
‘LOLLLL I (red heart emoji) being a student athlete,’ Schizas wrote in a caption on her story to go along with a screenshot of the email she sent her professor.
Schizas, competing in her second Winter Olympics for Team Canada, finished in sixth place in the women’s single skating short program portion of the team event on Friday with a score of 64.97.
‘Hi Prof. (redacted), I am a student in your Sociology 2FF3 course and am wondering if I could get a short extension on this week’s reflection. I was competing in the Olympic Games yesterday and thought the reflection was due on Sunday, not Friday,’ Schizas wrote in her email.
‘Here is the Canadian Olympic Committee press release to confirm my participation.’
Schizas’ sixth-place finish provided Team Canada with five of its 35 points in the team event, which is good enough to advance to Sunday’s medal event at the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan. Schizas was named to Team Canada’s card for Sunday’s event, where she’ll compete in the women’s single skating free skating portion at 2:45 p.m. ET.
The individual women’s single skating short program medal event, which Schizas will also compete in, is set for Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 12:45 p.m. ET. She finished in 18th place in the women’s single skating short program at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
A medal in either the team event or women’s single skating short program would mark Schizas’ first Olympic medal.
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