Finding the Edge My Life on the Ice Author:Karen Chen, Natalie England Meet Karen Chen -- figure skating icon and US national champion. At eighteen years old, Karen Chen has already achieved what some girls only dream of -- and yet it's only the beginning for this incredibly talented athlete. The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, Karen began to figure skate at just five years... more » old. A decade and hundreds of grueling traning sessions later, she broke out at the 2015 US Championships with a bronze medal. This was after sustaining a nearly career-ending ankle fracture a year earlier. In 2017, Karen became the US national champion, winning gold in two programs and receiving the highest score ever recorded for the short program at the US National level.
Now for the first time, in Finiding the Edge, Karen shares the story of how she got where she is today -- and where she's going next. Karen has already overcome astounding obstacles, and her grit, determination, and positive attitude have made her future truly limitless. She will share, in her own words, what it's like to be Karen Chen; she will share what it takes to achieve the impossible.
Features include a foreword from Kristi Yamaguchi, the Olympic champion, two-time World champion, and U.S. champion; and a glossary of figure skating terms, courtesy of US Figure Skating and the International Skating Union Silhouettes. « less