This Alysa Liu is a performer who can call on some life experience to express character. She trekked with friends to Mount Everest base camp. She enrolled at UCLA, finishing her first year before the ...

I first met Alysa Liu through her coach Laura Lipetsky. I was so excited to see Laura, whom I skated with as a little girl in Torrance, Calif. Alysa was too shy to speak to me, but we posed for a ...