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Former national figure skating champ is on leave from Cornell to train for 2022 Olympics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Beth Saulnier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor’s note: On February 7, 2022, Chen won silver as part of the team competition; but nearly two years later, in January 2024, the U.S. team was retroactively awarded gold after a Russian figure skater was handed a disqualification and a backdated ban following a doping investigation. With the new rankings, Chen becomes Cornell\u2019s fifth gold-medal winner at the 2022 Games.<\/em> She and her teammates ultimately received their medals<\/a> during a ceremony at the Paris Olympics in August 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clad in a diaphanous white dress whose delicate sleeves and sequined accents evoke the wings of a bird, figure skater Karen Chen \u201923 concludes her near-flawless performance with a dramatic spin\u2014beginning with her body arched gracefully backward and ending with one leg clasped above her head as she twirls around and around. When she glides to a stop, the crowd goes wild. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was gorgeous,\u201d raves a TV commentator. \u201cThis was mature. It was elegant, sophisticated. She hit her jumps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the short program portion of the 2017 U.S. senior ladies\u2019 national championship, and Chen\u2019s score was the highest ever awarded. She\u2019d go on to ace her free skate (the longer second program) and take home the gold medal, making her the nation\u2019s top female figure skater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Karen
Chen competing at the 2017 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in South Korea. (Photo provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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For Chen, it was not only a victory, but\u2014at the tender age of seventeen\u2014something of a comeback: she\u2019d won bronze in her senior debut two years earlier but finished eighth in 2016, a disappointing season during which she\u2019d struggled with chronic problems related to the fit of her skates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m at a competition, I need to trust myself and know I\u2019ve done all the training I can, and whatever happens, happens,\u201d observes Chen, who\u2019s majoring in human biology, health, and society in the College of Human Ecology. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s just not your moment\u2014but other times it is, and everything clicks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Early promise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chen first ventured onto the ice at age four and began competing at six. She won the national championships in two divisions (intermediate and novice) before taking the senior title; she skated for Team USA at the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, finishing eleventh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has continued to perform well since matriculating at Cornell, including impressive finishes during the 2020\u201321 competition season: she took bronze at the U.S. Championships, held in Las Vegas in January, and two months later was fourth at the World Championships<\/a> in Stockholm, Sweden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m really proud of how last season went,\u201d says Chen. \u201cObviously, it was an unconventional year for everybody\u2014not just in skating, but in the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wish I could remember the first time I laced up a pair of skating boots and slid out onto that big, frozen circle,\u201d Chen writes in her memoir, Finding the Edge<\/em>. \u201cAfter all, who wouldn\u2019t want to remember the moment they fell in love?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Having completed her freshman year remotely in spring 2020, Chen opted to take time off from Cornell to focus on skating\u2014a decision facilitated by the limitations that COVID-19 pandemic put on student life. She\u2019s now training with her coach in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with an eye toward an Olympic return at the upcoming Games in Beijing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited,\u201d she says. \u201cI know I\u2019ve set myself in a good position to make the team. It\u2019s just a matter of staying healthy, strong, and physically and mentally fit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Editor’s note: In early January 2022, Chen earned a silver medal at the national championships in Nashville and was officially named to the U.S. Olympic team.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many elite athletes, Chen has coped with injuries over the years, including an ankle fracture she suffered while practicing a triple Lutz jump in 2013 and a stress fracture in her foot that caused her to miss the entire 2018\u201319 season. She chronicled her career ups and downs in Finding the Edge: My Life on the Ice<\/a><\/em>, her 2017 young-adult memoir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI wish I could remember the first time I laced up a pair of skating boots and slid out onto that big, frozen circle,\u201d she writes in the book, which features a foreword by Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi. \u201cAfter all, who wouldn\u2019t want to remember the moment they fell in love?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elder child of Taiwanese immigrants, Chen was born in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Fremont\u2014also the hometown of Yamaguchi, one of her idols. <\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Karen
Chen practicing a spiral as a child. (Provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To give Chen the flexibility to practice, her mother homeschooled her from sixth grade onward; when she needed a new coach in early 2013, she, her mom, and her younger brother (a competitive ice dancer) relocated six hours away and reunited with her dad on weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balancing school and skating<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When Chen\u2014who plans to return to campus as a sophomore in fall 2022 and is pondering medical school\u2014first matriculated on the Hill, it was a major adjustment: before, she had fit her studies around her training, but now it was the other way around. Another new challenge was overseeing her own training; with ice time at Lynah generally booked up by hockey and phys ed classes, Chen practiced solo at a rink in nearby Lansing and worked out at a 24-hour gym off campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But all that effort paid off: after missing the 2019 nationals due to the foot injury, Chen\u2014who\u2019d earned bronze in 2018, the year after her championship win\u2014again landed on the podium in 2020. She took home pewter (fourth place), her fourth career medal at senior nationals\u2014one of several competitions in the U.S. and abroad she entered her freshman year, thanks in part to professors who helped her catch up on any missed material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I decided to go to Cornell, a lot of people advised against it and said, \u2018Just focus on skating,\u2019 but I was really committed to my decision,\u201d she recalls. \u201cIt was hard that year, trying to train while being a normal college student, but I do feel like I grew and learned a lot about myself. Although I loved being on campus, part of me really missed being a [full-time] figure skater. I think it helped me prioritize my goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ask Chen to name her career highlights, and she\u2019ll mention not just winning championships and competing on Olympic ice, but something that\u2019s close to Cornellian hearts: skating in Lynah Rink. In late February 2020, she performed one of her exhibition programs between periods of a game against St. Lawrence, to a roaring crowd of hockey Faithful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was one of the most incredible experiences\u2014it was so much fun,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of shows, but the energy was incredible. I thought hockey fans and college students might think figure skating is dumb, but as soon as I got on the ice they were cheering so loudly for everything I did. It felt amazing. That was an experience I\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top image: Karen Chen performs during an exhibition event at the 2017 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. (Photo by Charlie Riedel\/AP)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published October 5, 2021. Updated January 10, 2022; February 10, 2022; January 31, 2024; and August 9, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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