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Hughes qualified for the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in January, where she placed ninth overall, but did not qualify for the Olympic team.
The ice rink has long been an alternate home for two of Hughes’ family members: her father played ice hockey as an undergraduate at Cornell, and her older sister—the 24-year-old Sarah Hughes—won a gold medal in figure skating at the...
Hughes’s love affair with skating began at the age of three, when her mother would take her out to the rink with her older siblings. Soon enough, her bouts on the rink evolved into a passion for figure skating, and in the 2004 to 2005 season, Hughes...
After winning the bronze medal at the 2006 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Hughes was named the first alternate for the 2006 Winter Olympics. But when Michelle Kwan withdrew due to a hip injury, Hughes—then a junior in high school—found herself flying to Torino on...
Coming off of her Olympic debut and an eighth place finish at the 2006 World Figure Skating Championships, Hughes went through yet another grueling test of her abilities—the college application process.