While plenty of people have sent a last-minute email to a school professor in hopes of an assignment extension, often scrounging around for the perfect excuse, not many have had a reason quite like Madeline Schizas.

The Canadian figure skater posted a screenshot of an email she sent to her professor on Saturday, explaining she was “competing in the Olympic Games yesterday and thought the reflection was due on Sunday, not Friday.”

Schizas even attached an official press release to confirm her participation in the Olympic Winter Games from Milano Cortina.

As for whether she got that extension, it’s still to be decided.

“I haven’t heard back yet, but it’s a Saturday, so I wasn’t expecting one,” Schizas told Devin Heroux of CBC Sports. “I also didn’t expect anyone to care, I just thought it was funny.”

Is she hopeful the request will be granted?

“I don’t know, I’m just shooting my shot on this one … we’ll see. We’ll see if I get to redo it or not. I’ll let you guys know. I’ll keep you posted.”

The 22-year-old from Oakville, Ont., is in her final year at McMaster University and is nearly done completing a degree in Environment and Society.

Schizas is competing in the Olympics for the second time, making her debut four years ago in Beijing. She’s the lone Canadian woman competing in singles.

She finished sixth in the women’s singles qualifier in the figure skating team event on Friday, earning the Canadian team five points.

Her extension request on Saturday was just the latest in multiple viral moments for Schizas since the Olympics began.

The first was when she picked up a free plant available for competitors to put in their rooms while staying at the athlete’s village. Schizas named her plant “Ilya Rozanov” after a character from the breakout television series Heated Rivalry — a romance set in the world of hockey.

Meanwhile, Schizas also caught some attention on the ice when she was forced to restart her routine for the women’s singles qualifier on Friday — the day she missed her assignment — after the incorrect music was played at the start of her routine.

“I thought I had skated a pretty perfect program and the score was somewhat lower than I got at worlds for a program that I thought was the same,” she told CBC Sports.

“Now that I’ve seen it, I understand it a little bit better, but (in the moment) it’s like a surprise, you’re just sitting there a little bit shellshocked … I’m allowed to have a reaction to that.”

Despite scoring lower than she expected, Schizas reiterated she “loves team events.”

The four-time Canadian national champion will be back on the ice as part of the team event on Sunday, and will hopefully learn the fate of her extension request not long after.