Career
Reynolds began skating at age five and has trained with coach Joanne McLeod since he was nine. He won the Canadian Nationals at the Juvenile level in 2001 and the novice level in 2003 at age 12. The next year, he was fourth at the junior level, giving him a spot on the Junior National Team. This earned him a spot to the Junior Grand Prix, where he placed 5th at his first event. At Nationals, he moved up to second place at the junior level.
The following season, he improved on his Junior Grand Prix showing, then made his senior debut at Nationals. He placed 9th, earning himself a trip to the Junior Worlds. He placed 7th there after landing a quadruple salchow in the free skate. In the 2006-2007 season, he won the Junior Grand Prix in Mexico and placed second in Taiwan. At the Junior Grand Prix Final, when he was suffering from food poisoning, he won the bronze medal after landing his first quadruple toe loop in competition.
At the 2008 Canadian Championships, Reynolds landed a quad-triple-triple combination in his free program, the first Canadian to accomplish this. He is the second skater of three in the world, under Code of Points, to land the combination in international competition, after Evgeni Plushenko and before Kevin van der Perren.
In 2008-09, Reynolds finished fourth in both Grand Prix appearances and at the national championships. He was assigned at the last moment to compete at the Junior World Championships, where he came in 9th.
Although Reynolds was not selected for the Canadian Olympic team, Skate Canada assigned him to the 2010 Four Continents Championships and the World Championships. At Four Continents, Reynolds led after the short program, and although he faltered in the free skate, the combined score was enough to earn him the bronze medal. At his first World Championships, Reynolds popped a jump in the short program, but earned the second highest technical score in the free skate portion of the event, finishing in 11th place overall.
At the 2010 Skate Canada International, Reynolds became the first skater to ever land two quadruple jumps in a short program. Taking advantage of an off-season rule change allowing skaters to do both a solo quadruple jump and one in combination, Reynolds opened his program with a quadruple salchow-triple toe loop combo and later landed a solo quadruple toe-loop. The two elements netted him 26.32 points of his 80.09 total. He was fourth at the Canadian Championships and was named to the Canadian team for Four Continents and as an alternate for the World Championships. Reynolds finished 11th at the 2011 Four Continents in February. In the short program he aggravated a hip injury from December and took time off following the competition but began training again when he was added to the Canadian team for the 2011 World Championships, replacing Shawn Sawyer who had dropped out.
His favorite quad is the salchow, which he first landed at 15, and he has also practiced a quad loop.
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