Michelle Kwan gave the Spring 2019 Chubb Fellowship Lecture at Yale University on Wednesday, where she said three-time national champion and two-time world champion Nathan Chen, as well 13-year-old U.S. national champion Alysa Liu, were the future of U.S. skating.
“It’s awesome,” she said as part of the audience question-and-answer session. “It’s an incredible time. I see it develop and I see the things that Nathan is doing, I see Alysa who is this incredible 13-year-old who just won. Our future of U.S. Figure Skating is so bright.”
She didn’t think doing a quadruple Lutz jump was “physically possible” until she saw clips of Chen doing them, she said.