NAME: Nathan Chen
AGE: 17
HOMETOWN: Salt Lake City, Utah
TWITTER: @nathanwchen / INSTAGRAM: @nathanwchen
SEE THE LIST: NBC Asian America Presents: A to Z - The 26 Emerging Voices of 2017
How do you introduce yourself?
Nathan Chen
What inspires you?
The Olympic dream, and the ability of athletes.
What challenges you?
Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging. Balancing time between skating and school is a challenge as well.
Tell us about the biggest risk you ever took.
Attempting multiple quads in a program.
What are you reading/watching/listening to these days?
Netflix ("Chef's Table," "Arrested Development") music from Kygo, Chainsmokers, and Kendrick.
If you weren’t doing what you’re doing now, what job would you want to have?
I would love to be working in a hospital, or in a completely different realm, working with or exploring the lives of animals.
What’s your motto?
Never give up.
I celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month because...
...I am proud to be a first generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating. I celebrate my hard working parents and all the opportunities they gave me.
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