Skater becomes first US woman to land a quad in competition Liu ends Russia’s streak of 20 straight Junior GP women’s titlesAlysa Liu became the first
American woman to land a quad in competition when she hit her signature quadruple lutz during a dominant free skate to win the Junior
Grand Prix on Saturday.
The 14-year-old phenom opened her program in Lake Placid,
New York, with the tough triple axel, then landed a triple lutz-triple toe combination and a sequence that included a triple lutz and a triple salchow. The result was a free skate score of 80.14, nearly 14 points clear of second place.