Damon Allen remembers well how he felt about Amber Glenn after seeing her performances in the junior event at the 2014 U.S. Championships. “I thought, 'This girl is going to be the next star,'" Allen recalled last week.

The most important annual event on the international figure skating calendar is the world championships. Second is the Grand Prix Final, which begins tomorrow in Grenoble, France. The Grand Prix of Figure Skating's regular season consists of six events held around the world in October and November.

This fall, all of the reigning world champions — Ilia Malinin, Kaori Sakamoto, Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps and Madison Chock and Evan Bates — won nine out of their 10 combined Grand Prix regular season starts. Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps then withdrew from the Final on Monday.