It’s never too late to chase your dreams, and for Powhatan figure skater Juliette Moore, that dream is quickly becoming a reality.
Moore, previously a dancer at Stavna Ballet in the Stavna Youth Academy and a team captain of the junior varsity Powhatan High School Winter Guard in the eighth grade, aspired to be a figure skater in the fall of 2024 despite having no on-ice experience.
Yet she proved to be an exceptionally fast learner, graduating an entire learn-to-skate program in just 15 months by completing Basic 1-6, Pre-Freeskate 1 and 2, and Freeskate 1-6, something that can often take aspiring skaters several years to pass through all the way.
Only three months into her learn-to-skate process, she debuted in her first performance at the Richmond Ice Zone in December 2024 for the Grinchmas Holiday Show.
She has since competed in local programs like the Spring Splash in May 2025 held at the Powhatan Ice Zone, and the Falling Leaves CRC Championship in September 2025 that was hosted at SkateNation Plus, where she placed third. She also skated in a fellow student’s capstone project, which took the form of a benefit show for the Special Olympics.
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Moore’s time on the ice has only increased since then, and that means the competitions continue to heat up and increase in intensity as she spends five to seven days a week training on the ice with her coach Stefanie Page.
Page also invited Moore to compete in her biggest competition yet: the 2026 Pennsylvania Skating Championships for the Keystone Games, held in York, Pennsylvania. Competing against figure skaters across the East Coast and Northern Midwest on Feb. 20, Moore's hard work earned her a spot on the podium, placing third for a bronze medal in the 141 Aspire 3 Free Skate competition.
The podium finish qualified her for another trip to Pennsylvania later this summer, where she’ll compete in the State Games of America among some of the best athletes in the country on the campus of Penn State University. The competition runs from July 24 to Aug. 2.
While she continues to train for that approaching competition, her work on the ice is extending into other paths. Moore is simultaneously training with the Greater Richmond Ice Theater (GRIT), and the Richmond Synchronized Skating team.
There, she made the Aspire 4 team, which is the highest level of that division, with no prior experience. With her Richmond teammates, she traveled to Hershey, Pennsylvania for the Reflections Synchro Invitational as Powhatan’s only representative. The team came back home with gold through their “Mama Mia!” program.
Moore is constantly working toward improving her craft on the ice, recently receiving honors in her first Moves in the Field testing, which are structured U.S. Figure Skating tests focused on edge quality, power, flow, and posture. In her work in practice sessions, she’s been landing axels that were recently added to her program as well as double salchow jumps, which feature two full revolutions in the air. Along with her plans to travel back to Pennsylvania in the summer, she’s also competing in Chesapeake, Virginia next month and Hillsborough, North Carolina in May.
She’s also in the process of becoming a Learn to Skate assistant coach to work with more aspiring skaters. Her goals for the future are to go to college in two years, potentially for pre-med with interest in surgery and anesthesia, and to continue to figure skate with hopes of making it onto the international level.
In just over a year, Moore has gone from first steps on the ice to standing on the podium. For a Powhatan athlete who once wondered if it was too late to start, the answer is now clear: she’s right on time.
