US Figure Skating is hoping to make Olympic history this year, naming powerhouse trio Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, and Isabeau Levito to the official 2026 Winter Games roster on Sunday as Team USA aims to end a 20-year medal drought in Milan next month.

Glenn earned her spot after winning her third-straight national title on Friday, with reigning world champion Liu and 18-year-old 2024 Worlds runner-up Levito chasing her onto the 2026 US Figure Skating Championships podium.

"Just so grateful. That was terrifying," Glenn said after her win. "And I had to skate after two incredible ladies brought down the house."

Liu is the only US women's singles skater returning with Olympic experience — at just 16 years old, she took sixth place in Beijing — but the group's national podium tally adds to Team USA's renewed confidence.

"All we've got to do, is do our job," said 26-year-old Glenn. "I think the US ladies have come so, so far in the last two decades that if all three of us do our jobs in Milan, then more than likely someone's going to be up there [on the Olympic podium]."

How to watch the 2026 Olympic figure skating competition

While the US women will first take the ice in the team competition on February 6th and 8th, the trio will begin contending for individual glory by skating their short programs at 12:45 PM ET on February 17th, airing live on USA Network.

The 2026 Olympic podium will then be finalized in the free skate competition at 1 PM ET on February 19th, with live coverage on NBC.

US women are lighting up the ice, performing record-breaking short programs at the US Figure Skating Championships on Wednesday as the nation's top skaters compete to represent Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics in February.

Currently atop the field is 26-year-old Amber Glenn, with the reigning back-to-back national champion posting the highest short program score in event history on Wednesday.

Glenn's 83.05-point performance surpassed the 81.11-point previous record set just minutes before by her 20-year-old teammate, reigning world champion Alysa Liu.

"I think that was one of my most enjoyable experiences competing ever," Glenn said afterwards.

With Liu and Glenn leading the charge, the US is aiming to end a 20-year Olympic medal drought in women's singles figure skating in Milan, Italy, this winter — and Team USA has even more depth on their side.

A full six of the world's Top-17 skaters hail from the US, with 18-year-old Isabeau Levito — who claimed third in Wednesday's short program competition — joining Glenn and Liu in the Top 5.

Team USA can send only three singles skaters to next month's Winter Games, with the national selection committee assessing each athlete's full season — not just their performances at this week's championships — before announcing the Olympic-bound trio on Sunday.

How to watch the 2026 US Figure Skating Championships

The women's singles competition will conclude with Friday's free skate, which kicks off at 3 PM ET before the top skaters in the standings take the ice at 8 PM ET on NBC and Peacock.

The 2026 US Olympic Figure Skating Team will then be announced at 2 PM ET on Sunday, live on NBC.

U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn is calling out unnecessary comments about athletes’ bodies.

A spectator at Skate America reportedly made comments about fellow skater Kaitlin Hawayek, telling the 25-year-old she needed to lose weight. Glenn took to Twitter in response.

“Pretty sure it was the same spectator that made some comments to me about my body while asking for a photo,” she wrote. “It threw me off because I believe it was meant as ‘compliments’ instead it was toxic, triggering, and made me super uncomfortable.”

Glenn, who earned a bronze medal in the singles competition at Skate America, added that she struggled with accepting her body and weight “for YEARS.”

“I still struggle with it sometimes,” the 22-year-old said. “For example, this years [free skate] dress is my first sleeveless dress as a senior. I avoided having sleeveless dresses in fear of my arms looking ‘too big or too manly.’ The fact that as an athlete at just 13 I was worried about how others would perceive my body is a huge problem.”

She also tied such internal and external scrutiny of athletes’ bodies to another problem in the figure skating community.

“Point is stuff like this contributes to why eating disorders are so common in this sport,” she said in a separate reply.

The issue of eating disorders in sport has long been discussed, including in figure skating. At the Beijing Olympics earlier this year, as the skating world focused on Kamila Valieva’s doping case, some skaters also pointed to eating disorders and body image issues as systemic issues in the sport.

American skater Gracie Gold has been open abuse struggling with anxiety and an eating disorder. U.S. skater Alysa Liu, who placed in the top 10 at the Olympics, has also been open about dealing with negative comments surrounding her body following a growth spurt.

“I dealt with a lot of negativity, like two years ago,” Liu told the Associated Press. “At one point, I was like, why are they literally coming for a 14 year old? That’s so weird. They’re just kind of creepy for that. Why are they looking at a minor’s body that way? It’s just a little weird and kind of wrong, obviously.”

Young skaters, like Valieva, are often inherently smaller, as their bodies have not fully developed. But this still puts pressure on older skaters.

“We see girls who are really young and thin and who do really well in our sport,” said Josefin Taljegård, a 26-year-old Swedish figure skater who competed in the women’s individual event in Beijing. “Maybe that’s why they’re so skinny – because they’re still children.

“It usually is not like ‘Oh you have to look this kind of way’ but sometimes one can hear ’Oh if you were skinnier, you would jump higher or rotate faster.’”