Alysa Liu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Liu at the 2022 World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 8, 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Richmond, California | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's singles | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Phillip DiGuglielmo Massimo Scali | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | St. Moritz Skating Club, Oakland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest WS | 2nd (2021–22) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese name | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 劉美賢 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘美贤 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alysa Liu (born August 8, 2005) is an American competitive figure skater. She is the 2022 World bronze medalist, the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy champion, the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion (2019, 2020). At age 16, she competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics, placing sixth. At the junior level, Liu is the 2020 World Junior bronze medalist, the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time Junior Grand Prix champion, and the 2018 U.S. junior national champion.
Liu became the youngest-ever U.S. women's national champion when she won her first title at age 13. A year later, at 14 years old, she became the youngest skater to win two senior national titles. Liu is the first woman to win two consecutive U.S. titles since Ashley Wagner in 2012 and 2013. She is also the first woman to win the junior and senior titles back-to-back since Mirai Nagasu in 2008.
An accomplished jumper, Liu was the first American junior women's singles skater to successfully complete a triple Axel in international competition, the first American woman to land a quadruple jump, the first woman to complete both a quadruple jump and triple Axel in the same program, and the first woman to land a triple Axel triple in combination with a triple toe loop in the short program. In 2019, Liu was named to the inaugural Time 100 Next list.