Kaiya Ruiter

However, ten months later, the family moved again, this time to Calgary, and Ruiter began working with her current coaches, Jeff Langdon and Scott Davis, per Walia's recommendation.

[3] The following month, she competed at her first international assignment, the 2019 Bavarian Open, where she placed third in the novice women's category behind Kimmy Repond of Switzerland, and Lindsay Thorngren from the United States.

[4] As the reigning national novice champion, Ruiter was selected to appear twice on the Junior Grand Prix in the autumn of 2019, with her first assignment being the 2019 JGP Latvia in Riga.

[8] By the time of the championships, Ruiter was attracting significant media attention due to both her technical content and the comparatively weak women's field at the senior event that occurred.

[11] Her season had a disappointing finish at the 2020 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, where she fell twice in the short program and did not qualify for the free skate segment, coming in thirty-first.

Competing in the senior women's category for the first time, she won the short program but dropped to fourth place following the free skate.

[16] Following the Junior Grand Prix, Ruiter had planned to compete at the senior level as well, aiming to qualify for the Canadian Olympic team for Beijing.

[21] The World Junior Championships were held in Ruiter's hometown of Calgary, in the WinSport Arena at Canada Olympic Park, her primary training location.

[24] On the Challenger circuit, she won the silver medal at the 2023 CS Autumn Classic International, having come fourth in the short program but then risen to second in the free skate.

Ruiter said she was "honoured and beyond excited" at the opportunity, noting that "I get to compete on the same ice where my idol, Kaetlyn Osmond, won two Olympic medals.

"[29] Ruiter was sixth in the short program at the Youth Olympic women's event, but struggles in the free skate saw her twelfth in that segment, dropping to eleventh overall.

Ruiter credited the team atmosphere for boosting her performance in comparison to the prior outing, and called wearing an Olympic medal "surreal.

She then competed at 2024 Skate Canada International where she would come in eighth place before finishing seventh at the 2024 CS Warsaw Cup the following month.

"[34] She ultimately finished in fourth place, after difficulties in the short program saw her eighth in that segment, before a third-place free skate raised to her within 2.41 points of the bronze medal.