After retiring in 2022 and then unretiring in 2024, Alysa Liu has won the 2025 World Figure Skating Championship, which was held in Boston this year. She is the first American to win in 19 years. She is from Richmond California, the oldest of five children.
When she is not winning the Figure Skating World Championship, she is a student at UCLA and works with her coaches in Oakland remotely. It is interesting how many high level Asian American figure skaters have gone to elite colleges. Michelle Kwan had one year at UCLA, Nathan Chen went to Yale, and Vincent Zhou went to Brown University.
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