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- Nickname: Chrissy
- Birthdate: March 21, 1990
- Height: 5’8”
- Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- Hobbies: Fitness and nutrition, reading, sports, performing arts, and all styles of dance
- Favorite Color: Pink, of course
- Favorite Types of Music: All music genres
- Favorite Musical Groups/Artists: Bon Jovi; Amy Winehouse; Natasha Bedingfield; Carrie Underwood; Charlotte Church; Josh Groban; Michael Bublé; Michael W. Smith; LaRue
- Favorite Books: Classics such as novels by Jane Austen; P.S. I Love You; The Time Traveler’s Wife; The Notebook; Motivational books like Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court ; Fitness and Nutrition Books
- Favorite Movies: Night at the Roxbury; All Dance Movies ; Pride and Prejudice (the mini-series version); August Rush; Apne; The Ultimate Gift
- Favorite Broadway or London Plays: Phantom of the Opera; The new West End Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Lee Mead; Equus with Daniel Radcliffe; Mamma Mia!
- Favorite Foods: homemade whey-protein fruit smoothies; fruits (especially blueberries!); vegetables; homemade vegan soup; Italian foods; herbal tea; popcorn and chocolate
- Chrissy has the same birthday as Mark.
- Chrissy is a lifelong vegetarian and is also now a vegan five days a week.
- Chrissy was the NASTAR national ski racing champion for girls ages 4-6 at ages 4, 5, and 6. She also won the Vail Cup for winning every ski race through Ski Club Vail at age 6.
- Chrissy started ballet training at age 5. Four of her years of ballet training were at Mark Carlson’s International Ballet School in Colorado Springs. Over the years, she has also trained in tap, jazz, modern, hip-hop, and ballroom dance.
- Chrissy competed in roller skating dance with her brother, Will, at ages 5 and 6. She qualified for roller skating nationals in both solo and team dance at age 6.
- Chrissy began ice skating at age 6½ in Vail, Colorado.
- Chrissy competed in pairs with Will from ages 6-11. They medaled twice at Junior Nationals.
- Chrissy competed in ice dance for three years with Will.
- Chrissy also competed in intermediate dance with Harry Schroeder and junior dance with Stephen Chasman.
- Chrissy was a quadruple gold medalist at age 14, having passed her USFSA gold tests in moves in the field, pairs, free skating, and dance. She later became a quintuple gold medalist after taking her senior free dance test.
- Chrissy was a DJ with Will’s DJ business, Dancing DJ Productions. She was also the dancer for the business.
- Chrissy trained in Goju Ryu Karate and was a gold medalist at Karate Junior Olympics in December 2005.
- Chrissy was always homeschooled except for taking college astronomy and college algebra as a concurrent student at age 15.
- Chrissy graduated from high school at age 16 in May 2006.
- Chrissy completed her Foundation Degree in Performing Arts through Rotherham College of Arts and Technology in Rotherham, England, in May 2008.
- Chrissy is completing the final year of her BA (Hons) degree in Performing Arts at Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, England.
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