Samarria Brevard is many things. The 24-year-old SoCal native is a top female skater, an emerging style icon and a history-changing figure in a sport that has not always been kind to outsiders.

"And she's doing it on her own terms. She's the most famous female skater in the world, but she doesn't take herself too seriously. She has two parts coming out in male-dominated skate films for ...

Try as they might, no one was able to top her trick and she got the gold ... they get to know one another. The women’s skating competitions at the X Games were further proof of this, with the women’s ...

During the two weeks of the Winter Olympics, female figure skaters are the most famous people in the world. From the early days of Peggy Fleming, to the Harding-Kerrigan scandal, to America's ...

In the subsequent years, the triple jump would become a fixture in the programs of top female skaters. Elaine Zayak at the 1984 Olympics. The “Zayak Rule,” instituted in 1982, caps the number ...

Four women with impressive résumés will highlight the 2012 U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Thursday ... contest of the weeklong event, only the top two will qualify for the World ...

Like rock stars or Brazilian soccer players, the top women figure skaters often are referred to by just their first names — Yuna, Mao, Carolina, Gracie — and Olympic success will only swell ...

(Family photos/The Washington Post collage) Perspective by Fred Bowen The United States Figure Skating Championships are being held this week in Nashville, Tennessee. The top male and female ...

“Not really,” she says. A rising seventh grader at Villa Maria Academy, Meghan is one of the top youth female figure skaters in the nation. So advanced at the age of 12, she just skipped an ...

Supported by By Misty White Sidell Photographs and Video by Benjamin Rasmussen When Amber Glenn was named the top U.S. women’s figure skater for a second consecutive year in January, she ...