When Alysa Liu called her former coach, Phillip DiGuglielmo, about a year ago to say that she wanted to return to competitive skating, he tried to talk her out of it. He tried so hard that one glass ...

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 ...