U.S. figure skater Alexa Gasparotto wins her first international medal

Earlier this month, in just her second international competition, U.S. senior women's figure skater Alexa Gasparotto earned the silver medal at the Tayside Trophy in Dundee, Scotland. Earlier this year in Poland, she became the eighth U.S. woman and first-ever Black woman to land a triple Axel jump in competition.

- By LOIS ELFMAN

Figure skater Alexa Gasparotto celebrates winning a silver medal at Tayside Trophy competition in Scotland.

((Photo courtesy of Alexa Gasparotto))

"As the last couple of months have been going on, I've become really confident in my practice and in competition," said Gasparotto, 22. "For the first time, even though [Tayside] was a big event, it felt like another day of practice. That was a really nice feeling to go into the competition with a confident mindset."