New Jersey Skater Isabeau Levito Earns U.S. Olympic Team Spot

Isabeau Levito grabbed a spot on the U.S. Women's Figure Skating Team. She placed third at the 2026 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships in St. Louis last week. The 18-year-old from Mount Laurel will skate at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, which runs from Friday, Feb. 6 through Sunday, Feb. 22.

"I'm going to do just my normal, consistent training routine, because it will be like any other competition except much more fun and exciting," Levito said, according to Daily Voice. "We have such a great team and so many great resources and I really enjoy skating for this country."

She trains at the Igloo Ice Center in Mount Laurel. Born in Philadelphia, she laced up her first pair of skates at age three. The 2010 Vancouver Olympics sparked something inside her.

Chiara Garberi, her mother, arrived in the United States from Italy back in 1997. She enrolled her daughter in skating as a reward for finishing meals and to improve her coordination. The youngster took to the ice right away.

At 11, she claimed the 2018 U.S. juvenile champion title. Three years later, at 14, she finished third at the U.S. Championships and then became world junior champion just three months after that performance. No U.S. female skater had won that title in 14 years.

She captured the 2023 U.S. Championships. A year later, she earned silver at the 2024 ISU World Figure Skating Championships, then placed fourth in singles at the 2025 World Championships.

Her free skate program in St. Louis featured music from the Italian film Cinema Paradiso and included seven triple jumps. Italy will feel like a homecoming since her grandmother still lives in Milan.

No American woman has medaled in figure skating at the Olympics since 2006. That year, Sasha Cohen took home silver — the last time a U.S. female skater reached the podium at the Winter Games.

The South Jersey native aims to snap that two-decade drought when she competes next month in Italy.