Liu placed first in the short program, with a triple Axel-triple toe combination and 71.09 points, a little over one-point lead. 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Liu, a native of California’s Bay Area, hopped onto The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon after her historic victory, which had made her the youngest-ever U.S. woman to win nationals, breaking Tara Lipinski’s record from 1997. [37] She earned a season's best score of 138.99 in the free skate and 203.10 overall. Watch the latest video from Alysa (@alysa_ak). [30], Liu's first competition for the 2019–2020 season was at the inaugural Aurora Games, an international all-female competition held in August 2019. On December 11, 2020, Liu announced the addition of former four-time US men's champion Jeremy Abbott to her coaching team. While Liu trains in San Francisco and Oakland with Olympic ice dancer Massimo Scali and a team of coaches via webcam in Toronto, she’s got quite the connection to skating’s past – there and beyond. 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[27], Since Liu was too young to compete at both the junior and senior level World Championships, her season ended in January, after U.S. Nationals, which gave her time to work on her skating skills and choreography with Italian skater Carolina Kostner in Rome, an arrangement made by her coach, Laura Lipetsky. [14], Liu opened her season with a silver medal at the 2017 Asian Open Trophy, where she finished second to Japan's Mana Kawabe. While she’s still too young for seniors, she’s experienced quite the growth spurt: From 2019 to 2020 she grew from 4-foot-7 (139cm) to 5 feet (152cm). [39][40] She told reporters afterwards, "I think I should have only done one quad but I really wanted to go for it just for the fun of it". Kwan penned the essay on Alysa: "(She) has a long and bright future.". She fell on her second triple Axel, but was able to successfully execute her following six triple jumps. We’ve got the Jimmy Fallon appearance and four other tidbits to know on Alysa. 2021 - All rights reserved, Go in-depth with figure skating prodigy Alysa Liu. [13] She was in first place after her short program, with a 1.22 point lead. [3] To the surprise of many, she placed second in the short program with a clean skate. He was further educated in California, earning M.B.A. and J.D. Skating to "Don't Rain on My Parade" by Barbra Streisand in her short program, she scored 69.30 points, breaking her own personal best short program record by almost 20 points. She was born on born 8 August 2005 in Clovis, California, United States. Her short program included a split jump into a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination, which was ruled under-rotated, and a triple flip. Figure skater who was crowned the gold medalist at the 2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Jan. 25, 2019 in Detroit. 44.6k Followers, 332 Following, 16 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from ALYSA (@alysaxliu) [42][43][44] Skating last and immediately after Mariah Bell's "elegant, near flawless performance" to k.d. Liu is the first ladies skater to ever land both a quadruple jump and a triple axel in the same program. While she was a national champion at 13 and 14, Liu is still too young to compete at the senior level internationally. 2.6K Fans. Calgary 1988 gold medallist and SF resident Brian Boitano often gives her advice when they see each other at the rink, particularly on her jumps. Alysa Marie Serquiña Raymundo (@alysamarieserquia) on TikTok | 91 Likes. She was sent to the 2018 International Challenge Cup instead, where she won the advanced novice silver medal behind Hanna Yoshida of Japan. United States national champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alysa_Liu&oldid=1005249121, Articles containing Chinese-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, First female skater to land a triple Axel and a quad in the same program (2019 JGP United States). “I used to like (social media) a lot but not so much anymore,” she told U.S. “I was an influencer, you could say,” a smiling Liu said at Skate America in 2019. JGP: Junior Grand Prix. [16][18][19] Despite winning the gold, Liu was ineligible to compete at the 2018 World Junior Championships because she was not old enough. Alysa Liu poses with her gold medal at the 2019 U.S. [11][12] She was first after the short program; her free skate included two triple Salchows, the first completed in combination with a double toe loop and earning her a "program-high 7.00 points". Liu also joined Olympic gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn on stage at the 2019 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Sports, Liu helping to present an award to Vonn. And who influenced Liu to pick up skating in the first place? Alysa Liu (born August 8, 2005) is an American figure skater. [55] In the free skate she doubled one jump and underrotated two others, placing fourth in that segment and dropping to fourth overall, winning the pewter medal. [22] She landed a ratified triple Axel in the free skate, becoming the youngest skater in history to perform a clean triple Axel in competition and the fourth American female skater to do so, following Tonya Harding, Kimmie Meisner, and Mirai Nagasu. She previously won the ladies' singles junior event at the 2018 U.S. 2018 U.S. figure skating junior national champ. Alysa Liu (born August 8, 2005) is an American figure skater.She is a two-time U.S. national champion (2019, 2020), and a one-time national pewter medalist ().On the junior level, she is the 2020 World Junior bronze medalist, the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, the 2019 JGP United States champion, the 2019 JGP Poland champion, and the 2018 U.S. junior national champion. Liu said afterward that she has already resumed training one of her more difficult ultra-c elements, as of December 2020, and will try to resume training the other difficult elements in preparation for the next season.[56]. [40] Although her jumps were the most difficult in her long program and she successfully completed six triple jumps, both her quadruple Lutzes and a triple Axel were judged underrotated, and she fell on her opening triple Axel, placing her second in the free skate and second overall. degrees. In fact, her debut senior season will come in the lead-up to the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, which she’s pinned as her ultimate goal. Arthur Liu is the father of world-renowned 14-year-old figure skater, Alysa Liu.Aside from Alysa, who is a back-t0-back US lady figure skating champion, he is also a single father of a 10-year-old girl and 9-year-old triplets. "Geico U.S. Bell and Tennell assisted Liu to the top tier of the podium during the awards ceremony, recreating what they did the previous year. At 13 years old, Alysa Liu was already the U.S. national champion in figure skating in January 2019. [3], In January, Liu competed at the 2021 U.S. Championships in Las Vegas. Not yet old enough to skate at the senior level internationally, the two-time U.S. champ already owns several records. [35] In her short program, she completed, at the start of her program, a triple Axel-triple toeloop, the first in Junior Grand Prix history. Alysa Liu was born on August 8, 2005 in Clovis, California, USA. Alysa Liu: 5 things you didn’t know about the 15-year-old figure skater. Championships. Some of the kids were really cute.”. Figure Skating Championships, Detroit 2019: Senior Ladies". She began working with Italian choreographer and Olympic ice dancing competitor, Massimo Scali, who is now based in Oakland, also on her skating skills and choreography the end of 2019. Figure Skating National Champion in 2019. [48][49] She came in fourth after her short program; according to ESPN, she did not "skate nearly as well at the past two national championships",[50] and lost points for an under-rotation and negative grade of execution, but she successfully completed a triple Axel-triple toe loop combination jump, earning 67.52 points. Watch the latest video from Alysa Marie Serquiña Raymundo (@alysamarieserquia). [36] She then completed a quadruple Lutz, a "much better" triple Axel, a triple loop, and "two excellent combinations—triple Lutz-triple toeloop and triple Lutz-Euler-triple Salchow". Alysa Liu Biography – Alysa Liu Wiki. “The event was really fun. [44] Although she failed to be the first woman at U.S. Nationals to successfully complete a quadruple Lutz, which was called under-rotated and received negative grade of execution scores, her "triple Axels were solid, and her final two spins were of surpassing quality". She is the first to win two constructive titles, since Ashley Wagner. 2016 U.S. figure skating intermediate national champ. 330 Followers, 163 Following, 203 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Alysa Liu fan page (@alysa_liu_fp) She came in fourth after the short program, but came from behind to win the event. [24] On January 25, 2019, she broke Tara Lipinski's previous record by becoming the youngest skater to win the U.S. senior women's title, after placing second in the short to defending U.S. champion Bradie Tennell with a record score (which was broken minutes later by Tennell), and first in the free skate. [39], Liu entered the 2020 U.S. Championships as the favorite to defend her title. [7], Liu attended Chinese school for three years, then attended the Oakland School for the Arts, which, at the time, offered an emphasis in figure skating. While struggling with her jumps due to a growth spurt, she placed fourth in the domestic ISP Points Challenge behind Mariah Bell, Bradie Tennell, and Amber Glenn. 2018–19 season: First senior national title, 2019–20 season: International junior debut, "Could this 12-year-old Richmond girl be figure skating's next big thing? Figure Skating Championships after also winning at the intermediate level in 2016. "[8], In 2019, Liu was named to the inaugural Time 100 Next list; Michelle Kwan authored the recognition article. [45] Liu told reporters afterwards, "This year I’m thinking, it’s a new decade, like, wow, what a good start! While TikTok is taking the teenage world by storm (and beyond), Liu has opted off of social media for the most part, having initially been active on the popular platform, often sharing dances from home. [33][34], Liu's second slot in the Junior Grand Prix was in Poland. Her short program included three level-4 spins, a triple flip-triple toe loop combination, and a triple Lutz, earning her 63.83 points. But what don’t you know about this Beijing 2022 hopeful? She became the youngest female skater to land a triple Axel at the U.S. Nationals, as well as the third female skater to do so (after Harding and Meissner), and the first female skater to do so during a short program at Nationals. Hoes mad [20][21], In August 2018, Liu competed as a novice at the 2018 Asian Open Trophy in Bangkok, Thailand. Figure Skating Nationals. “I just focus on myself,” Liu told Fallon in response to the aforementioned question. [30][2] Liu plans to remain based in Oakland, California in the Bay Area, where Scali primarily works, while communicating with Nichol and Barkell via online video conferencing and occasionally traveling to their base in Toronto, Canada.[53]. She still does have an Instagram account with nearly 45,000 followers, however, though she hasn’t posted since February 2020. [49][52], On June 22, 2020, Liu announced that she was leaving longtime coach Laura Lipetsky and that she had hired coaches Lori Nichol and Massimo Scali, who she started working with in 2019, as well as Lee Barkell. She earned 75.40 points, a little over 3.50 points behind Bradie Tennell; she also had a technical base value advantage of more than 16 points over both Tennell and Bell. She qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final in second place, the first American female skater to do so since Karen Chen and Polina Edmunds in 2013, with 30 points. At the junior level, Liu has three medals on the Grand Prix Series and placed third at the 2019 edition of junior worlds. She won the gold, outscoring the silver medalist, Japan's Sara Honda, by over ten points. 21.7K Fans. -Alysa Liu. 1st American female skater to land a quad (Lutz) (2019 JGP Lake Placid). [45][44] Liu was age-ineligible to compete in international senior-level competitions, but was named to the 2020 World Junior Championships team, alongside Starr Andrews and Lindsay Thorngren. [44][47], Liu came into her first World Junior Championships ranked third in the world among juniors; ultimately, she placed third, behind Valieva and Usacheva. She completed all her jumps, including three triples, completed three level-4 spins, and earned positive grades of execution for all seven elements. A-L-L-¥(@ally_alysa) has created a short video on TikTok with music original sound. 25 Fans. The two tried it out together (see at the 3-minute mark below). She attended Chinese school for three years, then attended the Oakland School for the Arts, which offers an emphasis in figure skating. The “firsts” are many: First woman to win two U.S. titles by age 14 (she’s now 15); first American woman to successfully land a quadruple Lutz in competition; and the first female skater to land a triple Axel and quad jump in the same program. Liu scored 73.89 points in her short program, 2.71 points behind Tennell, the leader after the short program. [1][16] She scored a season's best in the short program with an almost seven-point lead going into the free skate. While TikTok is taking the teenage world by storm (and beyond), Liu has opted off of social media for the most part, having initially been active on the popular platform, often sharing dances from home. International Selection Pool (ISP) Points Challenge Competition Central; When two-time reigning U.S. champion Alysa Liu makes her 2020-21 season debut in the International Selection Pool (ISP) Points Challenge, which will be available Oct. 6 on the U.S. Figure Skating, as part of Team Johnny. [15] She was the youngest skater to compete in the junior division at the 2018 U.S. Championships in San Jose, California. Next stop: Late-night TV. [32] During her long program, Liu became the first American female skater to complete a quadruple Lutz in a competition. She earned perfect scores, led the U.S. team to first place overall, and was the first American female skater to successfully complete a quadruple Lutz in competition, albeit in one not sanctioned by the ISU. [39] A little over two points separated the first and fourth place skaters in the short program. Alysa Liu. Select from premium Alysa Liu of the highest quality. And is friendly with Jimmy Fallon. [44] Her final score was over 10 points higher than Bell's, who came in second place, and just under 15 points over Tennell's, who came in third. ALYSA (@alysaxliu) on TikTok | 0 Likes. "[46] At the age of 14, Liu's win made her the youngest two-time women's U.S. champion and the first woman in seven years to win back-to-back U.S. championships, since Ashley Wagner in 2012 and 2013 and since Michelle Kwan won 8 consequence titles. “Social media is exhausting.”. [50][51] In her solid long program,[48] Liu earned the second-highest technical score, with 137.31 points, came in third place in the long program, and earned a cumulative score of 204.83 points. Liu was given extra points on all her jumps, except for the triple flip-single loop-triple Salchow combination. TikTok - trends start here. "I just went from really short to very short." [1] Liu limited her social media use after an abundance of negative comments on her posts, causing her to find it “not worth it” and "exhausting. Her difficulties at earlier competitions had raised doubts as to how she would perform at the event, particularly as she would not attempt a triple Axel or a quad in the competition. Alysa Liu is the name of an American Figure Skater, who competes in the ladies singles discipline.She was born to multi-ethnicity parents Arthur Liu and Surrogate.
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