UPDATED: TVOkids Original competition series ‘All-Round Champion’ returns for season six
14 Mayo 2024 - 9:35AM
TVOkids will launch a sixth season of award-winning youth
docuseries All-Round Champion (26x30) on May 29 at 5 pm ET. The
long-running series features 11 young athletes who must learn and
compete in each other’s sport. Season 6 adds a new, game-changing
element: partner-based sports.
Each episode highlights the three major elements of
partnerships: collaboration, communication, and compromise, with
pairs changing weekly. Viewers will enjoy rooting for young
athletes who earn points by excelling at building trust and unity,
all while showcasing strength, skill and stamina through sport.
Even though they are competing as pairs, the one athlete with the
most points at the end of the season is crowned All-Round Champion
and wins the belt!
Meet the Season 6 athletes competing to be named All-Round
Champion:
- Ariana Ibit –
Beach Volleyball (Ottawa, ON)
- Deliya Beck –
Roller Derby (Grimsby, ON)
- Michael Peres
– Teqball (Ottawa, ON)
- Rohan Sikri –
Cricket (Woodbridge, ON)
- Mischa Grover
– Canoe Sprint (Kamloops, BC)
- Lexie Clarke
– Synchronized Diving (London, UK)
- Wolfe Jin –
Ice Dance (South Carolina, USA)
- Ellie
Lambourne – Cheer (Utah, USA)
- Emily Aguilar
– Breaking (Texas,USA)
- Braden
Cermack – Mixed Martial Arts (North Carolina, USA)
- Wil Shaffer -
Pickleball (Arizona, USA)
The series is hosted by Olympian and World Champion
Hurdler Perdita Felicien, who provides mentorship
support alongside an impressive weekly roster of sports stars that
coach and inspire participants through their respective sports this
season:
- Katie Vincent
– Canadian World champion and Olympic bronze medalist in canoe
sprint
- Phil
Dalhausser – Olympic Champion in beach volleyball and Hall of
Famer
- Kyle Yates –
The GOAT of Pickleball, formerly ranked #1 by the World Pickleball
Federation
- Steven Taylor
– World-renowned cricket player and former captain of the U.S.
cricket team
- Angel Rice –
All-Star U.S. Cheerleader, two-time world champion and Guinness
World Record holder, featured in the Netflix series, Cheer
- Henry Cejudo
– Former UFC Champion and Olympic gold medalist in wrestling
- David Boudia
– Most successful U.S. diver, with four medals from three Olympic
Games
- Sunny Choi –
First U.S. gold medal winner in breakdancing at the Pan-American
Games and will be competing in Paris 2024
- Margi
Osmundson – All-American soccer player and first gold medalist
in USA Teqball history
- Nicole Williams
(“Bonnie Thunders”) – From the U.S., this legend is known as
the LeBron James of roller derby
- Madison
Hubbell – American ice dancer, two-time Olympic medalist and
Four Continents champion
All-Round Champion is adapted from the wildly successful
Norwegian Best i mest (NRK), which won an International Emmy Kids
Award for Non-Scripted Entertainment and a Prix Jeunesse.
Executive Producers of the series include Matthew Hornburg,
Mark J.W. Bishop, Steve Sloan and Donna Luke for Blue
Ant Studios, Jeff Simpson and Andra Johnson Duke for
BYUtv and Kirsten Hurd for TVOkids. Perdita Felician
also serves as Producer. Blue Ant Studios holds worldwide rights.
Produced in association with TVOkids, BYU Broadcasting and YES TV,
and produced with the participation of Canada Media Fund.
All-Round Champion has won the coveted Canadian Screen Award for
Best Children’s or Youth Non-Fiction series for the past two years
and has also won the Youth Media Award of Excellence. This year,
the series is nominated for three CSAs, including Best Children's
or Youth Non-Fiction Series. It was also recently nominated for two
Children's & Family Emmy awards and the Shaw Rocket Fund Kids’
Choice Award.
Season six premieres on May 29 at 5 pm ET with new half-hour
episodes released weekly on Wednesdays and Thursdays with repeats
on Sundays at 6 p.m. Watch it on TVOkids YouTube, TVOkids.com,
TVOkids smart TV app or on the TVO broadcast channel in
Ontario.
Watch the trailer for Season 6 here.
Subscribe to the bi-weekly TVOkids Newsletter or follow us on
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