If you’re anything like me, your TikTok feed has recently been overtaken by edits of the United States Figure Skating team for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Specifically, edits of the three picks for women’s singles skating: Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu, and Isabeau Levito.
It’s clear that something about these three young women is special—they’re all overflowing with charm, beauty, and incredible talent, with quite the resume of accomplishments between the three of them. They have remarkable team chemistry in interviews, which is only contributing to the buzz online. But these short clips and edits of Liu and her amazing hair aren’t fully contextualizing them and why they’re so remarkable—so here is your short guide to the 2026
U.S. Women’s Figure Skating trio.
Amber Glenn was born in 1999 in Plano, Texas. She started skating at the age of five and showed incredible promise, placing in her first U.S. Championships at the age of 13 with a silver medal in the Novice category. Her struggles with both perfectionism and with ADHD made her career road a difficult one, but she’s made a name for herself nonetheless. Glenn was the champion of the 2024, 2025, and 2026 U.S. Championships, giving her the longest winning streak since Michelle Kwan in 2005. In 2024, she won the Grand Prix, an international competition, becoming both the oldest at age 25 and the highest-scoring American woman to do so. The 2026 U.S. Championships saw her earning gold and a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
Glenn is an inspirational figure in and outside of the skating world. Her openness about her mental health struggles makes her success all the more amazing to see, and she demonstrates amazing humility and sportsmanship, always happy to praise those who place above her. Glenn is an incredible human being as well as an incredible athlete. At the age of 26, she will be the oldest U.S. women’s singles competitor since 1928. Glenn is also the first openly queer figure skater to represent the U.S. in the Olympics, identifying as pansexual.
Alysa Liu was born in 2005 in Clovis, California. Like Glenn, she started skating at the age of five, and her career took off almost immediately. At the 2016 U.S. Championships she earned her first gold medal at age 12, the youngest to ever do so. She consistently dominated competitions despite frequently being the youngest competitor. She is the youngest woman to ever land a clean triple axel, doing so in 2018 at the age of 14. She then became the youngest to win the U.S. Championships in 2019, again at the age of 14—the second place winner was 21. Liu did the same again in 2020, qualifying her for the 2022 Winter Olympics. After competing, she announced her retirement. She said she felt satisfied with her career, having achieved her goal of skating in the Olympics.
Liu came back on her own terms in 2024. Her love for the sport was reignited after a brief skating session where she landed a double axel after two years of not skating, but she didn’t expect much when she reentered the competitive world. Liu underestimated herself. As she returned to competing, she once again began placing, winning the 2025 World Championships, the 2025-26 Grand Prix, and placing in second with a viral Lady Gaga-themed program at the 2026 U.S. championships, which qualified her for her second Olympics.
Isabeau Levito was born in 2007 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, making her the youngest of the trio. She started skating at the ripe old age of three years old, enrolled in lessons by her mother, a fan of the sport. In 2018, she earned her first gold medal at the age of 11 in the Juvenile category at the U.S. Championships. She was the World Junior Champion in 2021 as well as the gold medalist in the Junior Grand Prix of that year, her first of six Grand Prix medals. Continuing her winning streak, Levito was named the U.S. champion in 2023. The same year, she became the first American woman to win gold at the Grand Prix in seven years.
Levito took a short break in 2025, citing a foot injury, but came back better than ever in 2026, winning bronze at the 2026 U.S. Championships and earning her place on the Olympic team.
All three of these young women are phenomenal athletes who deserve every bit of the attention they’re getting. They are some of figure skating’s most beloved and dominant, and their genuine love for what they do shows on the ice.
Role models for the next generation in their own right, these three Gen Z skaters are expected to do great things at the Olympics this year and are all considered realistic contenders for the podium. Regardless of what happens, they’re sure to do their best, and fire TikTok edits of their amazing programs will continue gracing our FYPs.
The 2026 Winter Olympics start February 6 in Milan, Spain. Make sure to tune in to support Team USA!
