BRADIE TENNELL A Positive Perspective

“I just missed it so much that when I was able to go back, it kind of reignited the fire I have for the sport.”

Bradie Tennell was sailing through the 2019-2020 season, enjoying the process and looking ahead to a strong finale at the World Championships. Though that plan was ultimately shelved, Tennel had a lot to be proud of, given what she had achieved throughout the season.

Prior to the start of last year’s campaign, Tennell opted to skip the pre-season Challenger Series competition, — Autumn Classic International — to focus on her two Grand Prix assignments.

That decision paid off at her first event, Skate America, where she captured her first silver medal on the Grand Prix circuit. A fourth-place finish at her second assignment, Skate Canada International, earned her first trip to the Grand Prix Final, where she placed fifth.

Tennell opened 2020 by capturing the bronze medal at the U.S. Championships and a week later finished third at Four Continents, claiming the first Championships medal of her career.

But a month later, as the coronavirus pandemic spread around the world — and just five days before the World Championships was set to begin in Montréal — her season came to a crushing halt when the