Jodeyne Higgins is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 pair skater. With skating partner and husband Sean Rice

Sean Rice

Sean Rice is a Canadian pair skater. With partner and wife Jodeyne Higgins, he is the 1993 & 1995 Canadian bronze medalist. They also competed in the fours discipline, winning the fours title at the 1993 Canadian Figure Skating Championships with Jodi Barnes and Rob Williams and the 1994, 1995, and...

, she is the 1993 & 1995 Canadian bronze medalist

Canadian Figure Skating Championships

The Canadian Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of Canada. It is organized by Skate Canada, the nation's figure skating governing body. The levels of the competition are senior and junior; in some years, the novice level has...

. They also competed in the fours discipline

Four skating

Four skating is an unusual figure skating and roller skating discipline.Fours teams consist of two ladies and two men. The sport is similar to pair skating, and the disciplines including overhead lifts, twist lifts, death spirals, and throw jumps...

, winning the fours title at the 1993 Canadian Figure Skating Championships with Jodi Barnes and Rob Williams and the 1994, 1995, and 1996 titles with Scott MacDonald and Alison Purkiss. They won the 1992 bronze medal with Janice Yeck and Scott MacDonald and the 1997 silver medal with Melissa Shields and Trevor Buttenham.

They retired from competitive skating and toured professionally on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, for whom Higgins works as the ice show director.

In 2009, Higgins was a contestant on Battle of the Blades

Battle of the Blades

Battle of the Blades is a Canadian figure skating reality show and competition that airs on CBC Television. It was first broadcast before a live audience at the historic Maple Leaf Gardens. With Maple Leaf Gardens under renovation however, the show was filmed at Pinewood Toronto Studios in season two...

. She was paired with hockey player Ken Daneyko

Ken Daneyko

Kenneth Stephen Daneyko is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman of Ukrainian origin who played his entire career with the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League, winning three Stanley Cup championships with the team. He has been affectionately nicknamed "Mr...

 and was eliminated in week four. She is now a professional skater on the hit UK series Dancing On Ice

Dancing on Ice

Dancing on Ice is a British television show co-hosted by Christine Bleakley and Philip Schofield, in which celebrities and their professional partners figure skate in front of a panel of judges. The format, devised by LWT and Granada Television, has been a prime-time hit in eight different...

.

Pairs highlights

(with Rice)

Event	1991–92	1992–93	1993–94	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99
World Championships World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...		10th		14th
Canadian Championships Canadian Figure Skating Championships The Canadian Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of Canada. It is organized by Skate Canada, the nation's figure skating governing body. The levels of the competition are senior and junior; in some years, the novice level has...	3rd J.	3rd	6th	3rd	4th	4th	7th	5th
Skate Canada International Skate Canada International The Skate Canada International is an international, senior-level invitation-only figure skating competition organized by Skate Canada. It is the second competition of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. The location changes yearly. Medals are awarded in four disciplines: Ladies' singles, Men's...					3rd	6th
Skate America Skate America Skate America is an international, senior-level figure skating competition held as part of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. It is organized by the United States Figure Skating Association. The location changes yearly...			5th
Trophée Lalique			6th
Nations Cup		4th		8th
Nebelhorn Trophy Nebelhorn Trophy The Nebelhorn Trophy is an international senior-level figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union and held annually in Oberstdorf, Germany. The competition is named after the Nebelhorn, a nearby mountain....		3rd

• J = Junior level

Dancing on Ice

In the 2011 series she was partnered with Johnson Beharry

Johnson Beharry

Lance Corporal Johnson Gideon Beharry VC of the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, is a British Army soldier who, on 18 March 2005, was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour in the British and Commonwealth armed forces, for twice saving members of...

 and they got all the way through to the semi finals. Johnson & Jodeyne are currently on the Dancing On Ice tour.

External links

• Jodeyne Higgins at Battle of the Blades
  Battle of the Blades
  Battle of the Blades is a Canadian figure skating reality show and competition that airs on CBC Television. It was first broadcast before a live audience at the historic Maple Leaf Gardens. With Maple Leaf Gardens under renovation however, the show was filmed at Pinewood Toronto Studios in season two...