1. Amber Elaine Glenn was born on October 28,1999 and is an American figure skater.
57 Facts About Amber Glenn
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Amber Glenn has finished within the top ten at three ISU Championships.
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Amber Glenn is the fourth American woman to land a clean triple axel in international competition.
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Amber Glenn's father, Richard, is a police officer and she has a younger sister named Brooke.
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Amber Glenn is pansexual; she is the only openly LGBTQ women's singles skater on Team USA as of December 2019.
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Amber Glenn has been open about her struggles of being an elite-level athlete with ADHD.
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Amber Glenn won a bronze medal at the 2013 Junior Grand Prix event in the Czech Republic and became a national junior champion at the 2014 US Championships.
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Amber Glenn trained in McKinney, Texas and then at Stonebriar Ice in Frisco, Texas until the rink closed in 2014.
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Amber Glenn finished sixth at her second JGP assignment in Estonia and thirteenth on the senior level at the 2015 US Championships.
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Struggles with depression saw Amber Glenn admitted for inpatient treatment, but with her first international senior assignment at the 2015 Autumn Classic International pending, she decided to leave the facility to attend.
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Amber Glenn announced that she would take a break to "reevaluate".
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Amber Glenn resumed training in February 2016 after joining Peter Cain and Darlene Cain in Euless which is directly north of Fort Worth, Texas.
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Amber Glenn placed fifth at the 2016 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, fourth at the 2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, and eighth at the 2017 US Championships.
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Amber Glenn was selected to compete at the 2017 World Junior Championships but withdrew in early March.
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Amber Glenn was invited to compete at her first Grand Prix event, the 2017 Cup of China, after the withdrawal of Gracie Gold.
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Amber Glenn placed tenth in China and finished the season with a second consecutive eighth-place at the 2018 US Championships.
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Amber Glenn was sixth at the 2018 CS Lombardia Trophy and seventh at the 2019 US Championships.
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Amber Glenn dropped to fifth place after the free skate and said further mental preparation was needed.
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Amber Glenn finished ninth at the 2020 Four Continents Championships, her first senior ISU championship assignment.
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The coronavirus pandemic prompted a multi-month hiatus from training, after which Amber Glenn began working on mastering the triple Axel, which she had been attempting "for fun" periodically for nine years by that point.
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Amber Glenn missed an early virtual competition due to fracturing her orbital bone after passing out during cryotherapy but then attempted the triple Axel for the first time in competition during a later virtual domestic event, though she singled it.
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Amber Glenn was assigned to compete at the 2020 Skate America.
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Amber Glenn placed fifth in the Skate America short program after having to execute a turn in between her triple-triple jump combination.
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Amber Glenn was sixth in the free skate and remained in fifth place overall.
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Amber Glenn attempted her triple Axel in the short program at the 2021 US Championships but was unable to land it successfully.
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Amber Glenn withdrew from the Skating Club of Boston's Cranberry Cup event and then made her full competitive debut at the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, where she placed tenth.
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Amber Glenn concluded the fall season at the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, where she won the silver medal.
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Amber Glenn tested positive for COVID-19 afterward and withdrew before the free skate.
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Amber Glenn was named as an alternate for the Olympic team.
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Amber Glenn began the season by winning a bronze medal at the Skating Club of Boston's Cranberry Cup event before finishing fourth at the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy.
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Amber Glenn finished eleventh of twelve skaters in the segment.
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Amber Glenn described "mixed emotions" approaching the 2023 US Championships after her disappointment the previous year.
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Amber Glenn was third in that segment, rising to win the bronze medal.
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Amber Glenn said she was happy with how she performed, and that she had enjoyed the experience of the national championships and the crowd support.
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Amber Glenn said that she "didn't feel as energetic" as she had wanted to be.
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Amber Glenn competed next at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Japan where she finished twelfth despite under-rotating her triple axel attempt in the free skate.
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Amber Glenn said it felt "very bizarre" to begin the season this late but fared well in the short program, placing second in the segment with a new personal best score of 71.45.
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Amber Glenn was the sixth American woman to do so in competition and the fourth in international competition.
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Amber Glenn had a "disastrous" short program at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo in Finland, finishing eleventh of twelve skaters after performing an invalid double flip instead of a triple and only managing a double toe loop as the second part of her improvised jump combination.
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Amber Glenn rebounded in the free skate with a new personal best score of 133.78, after her only error was singling her planned triple Axel.
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Amber Glenn came second in that segment and rose to the bronze medal, her second on the Grand Prix.
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At the 2024 US Championships, Amber Glenn placed second in the short program with a clean skate.
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Amber Glenn opened her free skate with a successful triple Axel, but struggled in the second half of the program, doubling a planned triple Lutz and singling a planned triple flip.
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Amber Glenn initially believed that she had missed her chance at the gold medal; however, the final skater, Isabeau Levito, fell three times, as a result of which Glenn placed second in the segment and first overall.
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Amber Glenn had been preemptively assigned 2024 Four Continents Championships, which were to occur the week following the national championships.
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Amber Glenn began the season by winning gold at the 2024 Lombardia Trophy.
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At her first Grand Prix event, the 2024 Grand Prix de France, Amber Glenn landed a triple Axel in the short program; her score of 78.14 was the highest ever earned by an American woman.
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Amber Glenn placed third in the free skate, but remained in first overall due to the almost twelve-point lead she had over silver medalist, Wakaba Higuchi, in the short program.
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At 25, Amber Glenn became the oldest American woman to win a Grand Prix title for the first time.
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Later in November, at her second Grand Prix Event, the 2024 Cup of China, Amber Glenn landed a triple Axel in the short program, though it was deemed a quarter turn short, and she stumbled in her jump combination.
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Amber Glenn was "shocked and excited that I made it".
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Amber Glenn was the first American woman to win the Grand Prix Final in almost fifteen years since Alissa Czisny won it in 2010.
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Amber Glenn competed at the 2025 US Figure Skating Championships in January.
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Amber Glenn said that she had been sick since competing at the Grand Prix Final and that she was "dealing with some issues off the ice that have been just exhausting".
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On March 2,2025, Amber Glenn took part in "Legacy on Ice," an ice show organized by US Figure Skating that paid tribute to lives lost aboard American Eagle Flight 5342.
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Amber Glenn went on to deliver a stronger free skate placing fourth in that competition segment and moving up to fifth place overall.
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Amber Glenn went on to skate a clean free skate, scoring a new personal best and placing second overall in that segment, behind Alysa Liu.