Amber Glenn’s first Winter Olympics ended with a season-best performance, taking the Plano native from 13th place to finishing competition in fifth. “I locked in, and I trusted in my training, and I did my job,” Glenn said. I told myself, I’m going to enjoy this moment because I was so cl ose to having that moment in the short program, and it just kind of slipped away from me.” Her resiliency came just days after a short program skate with a costly mistake. “Despite making a slight mistake on the last element, I decided to embrace all the hard work and determination that it took to even get to the games and be proud of all of that and enjoy it, and I think I did,” Glenn said. So how did she bounce back? She said it was about not dwelling on the mistake, but thinking about the opportunity. “I didn’t really let myself process it until the individual event was over because I knew I still had a job to do,” Glenn said. While she didn’t win gold individually, she is taking home gold in the team event. “I’m just so grateful for my teammates. We really came together, and we all did so much to earn this gold medal. Their continued encouragement of me, of course, was also so amazing. It’s hard when it’s not just an individual, it’s everyone working towards it,” Glenn said. She also said that during her time in Milan, it hasn’t been lost on her that the next generation is looking at her dream coming true.  “It’s so unique and so incredible because I never would have thought that I’d make it here, as that young girl, I idolized people from so many different places and from so many different backgrounds, and we didn’t know much about them. They were this faraway figure, away in the distance, and I think that’s something. That’s really different about the generation of athletes is we are more accessible, we’re more authentic, and we’re more personable,” Glenn said.  Glenn missed out on the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022 because she caught COVID-19. She has worked since then to make her Olympic debut with one word in mind: resilience. That, plus what she calls her super power: heart. “I definitely think it’s both my superpower and my weakness. I put my heart into everything I do, and it makes things so much more fruitful and so much more exciting when they go my way, but even more devastating when they don’t, because I am in it and I’m not going to do things. It definitely makes things harder, but even more satisfactory when all that hard work and heart that I’ve put into whatever it is that I’m doing, especially skating, works out.  I think that’s what I am most proud of,” Glenn said.   She also said she has felt the love and support from North Texas to Milan, which has helped carry her through it all. “I wouldn’t be where I am today without North Texas. I grew up going all across the DFW area to different ice rinks, doing different shows, doing different things, and it was such an incredible experience getting to grow up and perform in Dallas for so long, and I wouldn’t be where I am without you guys,” Glenn said. As far as another Olympic run? She said she doesn’t know about that, but she does know for sure she’s headed back to North Texas so that her fans can see her in person. “I’ll be there in Late April, early May, doing a show in Allen. So come on through. It’s called Stars on Ice, Alyssa [Liu] will be there, all the Olympic athletes, on the figure skating team, will be there, so come say hi,” Glenn said. Glenn will perform one more time in the Winter Olympics on Saturday, February 21, for the figure skating exhibition gala. You can watch it on NBC 5 and stream it live on Peacock. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser. ...read more read less