Amber Glenn pulled off a rare feat on Friday night at the 2026 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, securing her third consecutive U.S. title.

With the gold, Glenn adds her name to a list of legendary women who have clinched three straight U.S. Championships golds, such as Dorothy Hamill, Janet Lynn, Peggy Fleming and Tenley Albright. She's the first to accomplish the feat since Michelle Kwan, who won eight straight from 1998 to 2005.

The Texas native, like she did two nights earlier in the short program, followed exceptional programs from Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito with a remarkable program of her own.

With her intense, mature and compelling free skate to "I Will Find You" by Audiomachine and "The Return" by CLANN, a determined Glenn used every weapon in her arsenal to hold on to her title. She opened with her biggest weapon, a triple Axel, and went on to land two superb combinations – a triple flip-triple toe loop and a triple loop-double Axel-double Axel sequence that were awarded 10.86 and 14.12 points, respectively.

After fighting to land her final jump, a second triple loop, Glenn cut loose with a striking choreo sequence, including a spiral into a split jump and Ina Bauer.

Her winning free skate score of 150.50 and overall total of 233.55 points are new personal-best records. She crushed her previous-best total score by more than 16 points.

"I'm still in disbelief, honestly," Glenn said. "The ladies were on fire this competition, and I couldn't be more proud of how far we've come as far as Team USA. I had, of course, a performance of my life on Wednesday and was so happy with it and going forward I want to bring the same energy to my free skate. I think I stayed calm and handled the pressure well, but I want to get that same exciting feeling that I did in the short program into the free skate going forward."

Liu, the reigning World champion, was also electric.

The two-time U.S. champion (2019-20) debuted a revamped version of her free skate to a Lady Gaga medley, bolder and more striking than the version last seen in September and performed it with the same joy and abandon she has displayed since returning to competition last season.

After reeling off her triples, including a triple Lutz-double Axel-double toe loop combination in the second half of the program with seeming ease, generating 13.15 points, Liu's choreo sequence to "Bad Romance" — including an extended knee slide — had the audience clapping along. 

She posted the third-best free skate score of the event of 147.80 and earned the silver medal with a score of 228.91.

"I think I liked it," Liu said. "I have to watch it. I'm a visual critic of myself, but it felt pretty good. I was confident out there. I did see the protocol [sheet] and I need to get the rotations, man. So I'll work at that. Other than that, I'm happy and proud of how we all did. This was so fun to watch, even for me. Someone said everyone really enjoyed watching it and I agree."

Levito, the 2023 U.S. champion, also shrugged off pre-Olympic jitters to skate a relaxed and graceful program to a romantic medley from "Cinema Paradiso," delivering seven triples including an opening triple flip-triple toe loop. She also secured Level 4s for each of her spins and her step sequence.

She produced the second-best free skate score of 148.73 and a personal-best overall total of 224.45.

"I'm satisfied with my performance today," Levito said. "I think it reflected the training I put in prior to this competition. There was some extra pressure in terms of having to do it right here, right now; it was my first time at nationals in an Olympic year being age eligible for the Olympics. So I was glad to rely on my training to get through programs with no big problems."

Glenn, Liu and Levito now must wait to find out if they've been nominated to the 2026 U.S. Olympic Team. The team will be announced Sunday live at Enterprise Center during Making the Team: Presented by Xfinity from 1-3 p.m. CT at Enterprise Center.

Two-time U.S. champion Bradie Tennell made sure to savor the moment after her beautiful free skate to music from The Mission soundtrack by Ennio Morricone.

Tennell posted a score of 141.95 and an overall total score of 211.48 to claim the pewter medal, her seventh U.S. Championships podium finish.

"I don't know if I can adequately describe the way [I feel] putting a program like that out at nationals in an Olympic year. I've been dreaming of that moment for four years," Tennell said. "Every hardship, every struggle, every moment where I doubted myself, sitting there at center ice after having done a program like that, I felt so much pride and so overwhelmed with joy and gratitude and so much love for the sport. It's brought me so much of everything – pain, suffering, and so many amazing opportunities. This is what you dream about."

Earlier in the day, Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov repeated as U.S. pairs champions.

The Boston-based skaters became the first pairs team to win back-to-back U.S. titles since The Skating Club of Boston's Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir accomplished the feat in 2013 and 2014.

They posted a free skate score of 132.40 for an overall total of 207.71 points.

Efimova and Mitrofanov were supreme storytellers in their free skate to "Where Do I Begin (Love Story)," radiating romance with every step and highlight move, building intensity throughout its four-and-a-half minutes. Most impressive were three elegant lifts, including an Axel lasso lift that tallied 9.20 points.

Repeating as champions, they agreed, proved to be a challenging prospect for them.

"I have never been in this position, so this was a completely new experience," Efimova said. "You don't know how it feels to compete as a reigning national champion until you actually do it. It does bring extra pressure; it does bring more fire and the will to defend that title, so it was very exciting and good for our future."

When Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea chose their free skate music — a medley of Cinematic pop hits including "Sweet Dreams," "Eleanor Rigby" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"— their goal was to be "epic." And while perfection eluded them on Friday night — Kam fell on a throw triple flip — the final third of their program, packed with superb lifts and an intricate pair spin, was truly a blockbuster.

The 2024 U.S. champions from Colorado Springs, Colorado, placed second in the free skate with a U.S. personal best 129.99 points and won the silver medal with a U.S. personal best overall score of 197.12. 

Their finish puts them in a strong position for an Olympic berth, which will be announced on Sunday. For O'Shea, it's been a 14-year journey in pairs to reach this point.

"It's been a long time on Team USA and a long time working toward this," O'Shea said. "It was always a goal but coming back and skating with Ellie for these last four seasons, it's been at the forefront of my mind."

Skating to Italian singer Lara Fabian's "Caruso," Katie McBeath and Daniil Parkman had some of the most ambitious elements of the event, including a perfectly landed throw triple Lutz in the program's second half. Now in their third season skating together, the yearning ballad highlighted their growing on-ice chemistry.

The U.S. silver medalists in 2025, McBeath and Parkman generated a free skate score of 120.84 and an overall total of 187.45 points. The skaters, who began their partnership in 2023, finished as the bronze medalists. They placed fourth in the free skate.

"I've learned a lot," McBeath said of her journey from singles to pairs. "First and foremost, skating with Daniel has helped me level up as an athlete. I was never on a national podium before until we were. Together we are stepping into our own and continuing to step up on our journey, which has been cool to experience with him."

Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe, rinkmates of Efimova and Mitrofanov, rebounded from their disappointing eighth-place short program on Wednesday with a lyrical, far more technically solid free skate to the classic "Unchained Melody," from Ghost: The Musical. The 2023 U.S. silver medalists interpreted coach Olga Ganicheva's choreography with delicacy and finesse, landing side-by-side triple Salchows and a strong throw triple loop.

Third in the free skate with a score of 127.23, Chan and Akira rallied to claim the pewter medal with 186.52 points.

"We definitely had an unexpected short program for us," Chan said. "We had never been in the first group at nationals going into the long. Emily came off the ice after the short program and told me, 'This is my worst nightmare.' I told her, 'Listen, we have a job to do and this is not over;  you can feel that way after Friday.'

"So we leveraged our team and Emily and I stayed focused throughout the rest of the competition and we just relied on our training and were able to deliver a decent long that we were happy with. It was a strange day for us. It almost felt like we were competing in a separate event with a gap in between. Now we feel blessed to be in the position we are in."

For full results from the 2026 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships, as well as how to watch information, bios and more, visit the U.S. Figure Skating website.