It won't exactly be a full-circle moment when Jason Brown steps onto the ice this weekend for Skate America, the penultimate stop in figure skating's premier series, and where he made his Grand Prix debut as an up-and-comer some 12 years ago.

Brown's path has been far too complex to call it that.

Rather the arc of his career has been full of twists and turns, highs and lows. There was the joy in winning eight medals at the U.S. championships, and the team bronze that the Americans won at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. And the disappointment in missing out on the Olympic team four years later, along with all those top-five finishes without a medal at the world championships.

Yet in a sport often unyielding to age, the 30-year-old, Highland Park, native, Brown has pressed on, supported by one o

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