"Clovis-born Alysa Liu, who now hails from Richmond and who went to high school in Oakland, skated in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing at the age of 16."
"20-year-old Alysa Liu made headlines at a young age, being the youngest-ever women's national champion at age 13, and last March she became the first US woman in 19 years to win the World Figure Skating Championship."
""Well I'm not the youngest this time," Liu joked after the event. "I'm feeling older... not really, I'm really, really good!""
"As USA Today reports, Sunday's event still belonged to three-time national champion Amber Glenn, 26, who thrilled the audience and became the first woman to win three back-to-back national championships since Michelle Kwan."
Alysa Liu, born in Clovis and now based in Richmond, skated in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing at age 16. Liu briefly retired from competitive skating to attend UCLA after graduating high school at 15, then returned to competition. At age 13 she became the youngest-ever U.S. women's national champion, and last March she became the first U.S. woman in 19 years to win the World Figure Skating Championship. At the recent U.S. Championships in St. Louis she finished a close second to three-time champion Amber Glenn, with Isabeau Levito third, forming the women's team for Milan-Cortina.
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