South Jersey figure skater Isabeau Levito reached the peak this year with the Olympics. She wants more.

The competitive season ended six weeks ago for South Jersey figure skater and Olympian Isabeau Levito.

But the spring, she said, is her favorite part of the year. For the fourth year, she’s touring with the prestigious Stars on Ice show, skating in a different city most days, then traveling to the next on a “super legit” sleeper bus.

“It’s very luxurious to me,” said Levito, 19, who lives and trains in Mount Laurel.

With her are the other Blade Angels, as she, Alysa Liu, and Amber Glenn, the other women of the 2026 Olympic figure skating team, have called themselves. Most of the other Olympians are also with them.

The show, Levito said, is “the perfect transition from season to season.”

This year, she reached her goal of making the Olympic team in her mother’s hometown, Milan, Italy.

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“It was such a great experience,” she said. “It was just so cool with all these athletes from different sports all in one place. It was very magical, and it was a dream come true.

“You’re in the prime of your life.”

And yet, she wasn’t satisfied.

“I didn’t feel very successful in the season compared to my other senior seasons,” she said. “I felt like I regressed a lot this year, even though, mentally, I felt like I was in a better place and more confident in myself.

“But I’m very optimistic for getting ready for next season and really excited to strive for more.”

Many people in skating thought Levito improved this year, and judges’ marks often reflected that. But said she didn’t feel it.

The 2023 U.S. champion and 2024 world silver medalist placed eighth in the Olympic short program and 13th in the free skate, or long program, which included a fall. She wound up 12th overall.

Ironically, Levito said she felt good going into those programs.

“Yes, I went to the Olympics, and it was super memorable, and I’ll never forget it; it’s not entirely, completely me. It doesn’t define me enough for it to be branded on me.”

“Honestly, once I was in the arena, it didn’t feel different from another competition,” Levito said. “If anything, I remembered that I felt like I had much more energy at the Olympics, and that it was so much easier to compete for some reason.”

But it wasn’t any other competition, and Levito reveled in the many special things planned for athletes.

She enjoyed trading pins in a special claw machine in the village. She and her roommate, ice dancer Christina Carreira, got their faces printed on a Coke can.

She especially loved getting the full Olympic wardrobe.

“That actually was my favorite part of the Olympics,” she said. “Everything felt very luxurious to me.”

She cheered on her teammates in the arena and watched other sports on TV in the athletes’ lounge in the village. She got to know speed skater Conor McDermott-Mostowy and spent time with another speed skater, Erin Jackson, whom she met before.

But she decided that she would not get an Olympic rings tattoo.

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“Everyone kind of gets it, and it just feels like a little too monkey see, monkey do for me,” she said. “Even though, yes, I went to Olympics, and it was super memorable, and I’ll never forget it, it’s not entirely, completely me. It doesn’t define me enough for it to be branded on me.”

She did, however, get the iconic Olympic rings necklace.

“I have it on right now, even as we speak,” she said.

A few weeks after the Olympics, she competed again at the World Championships in Prague, Czech Republic. She placed fourth in the short, seventh in the free, and fourth overall, just off the podium.

If she has any regrets, she wishes she pushed herself more.

“I didn’t really do much this season,” she said, “and I felt like I held back a lot, which makes me really excited for next season because I really want to change that for myself.”

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Entering the Olympics, she thought it wasn’t time to take risks or try new things and instead focused on what she does best.

“I don’t know why I was thinking that way,” she said. “But that’s OK. I have time to adjust that.”

Levito is planning to keep competing.

After Stars on Ice, Levito will return to the New Jersey apartment that she shares with her fluffy cat and that she enjoys decorating. She’ll head back to the Igloo Ice Rink and works on new programs with her head coach, Yulia Kuznetsova.

She also needs to “heal and recover from last season, unfortunately,” she said.

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She has a slight injury from a bad fall during a Stars on Ice performance.

“I’m going to be fine, as long as I don’t keep falling until it heals,” she said.

And then, jokingly: “Oh, I just gave myself a paper cut. Injury No. 2.”

She’s kept up with one her favorite hobbies, reading, and is reading books in English and Italian. But her crocheting and bedazzling are on the back burner. As is her education.

Levito graduated from high school last spring and then took a gap year to train for the Olympics. That likely will turn into two years, as she still needs to apply to colleges.

Being out of school might have also led to some ennui, she said.

“I went to a psychic not long ago,” she said. “I love going to psychics. It’s so fun. And the first thing she asked me — she doesn’t know anything about me — she’s like, ‘I can tell that you’ve been at a standstill with your education. You need to continue your education for the things that you want.’”

Levito also is eager to get back to daily training.

“The next Olympics are four years away, so it’s not even on my radar,” she said. “I’m just really excited for what I want to work on for next season.”