following her disappointing results at the 2016 olympics, abel began competing with new partner mélissa citrini-beaulieu. at the 2017 world aquatics championships they partnered to a silver medal together in their first year in the women's 3-metre synchro springboard event. abel also partnered with françois imbeau-dulac in the mixed 3-metre synchro springboard where they won bronze. individually, abel also won a bronze medal at these championships, diving to bronze medal in the 3-metre springboard. with these three medals abel tied alexandre despatie for the most medals by a canadian at the fina world championships.