By age 5 Christine Lived in Michigan, Colorado and a Mayan Indian village in the Yucatan. She began sports acrobatics, one of the three gymnastics sports, in New Orleans at age 8 under the direction of Soviet and Polish coaches. By 13 she was training three hours daily in ballet, modern, jazz, folk and lyrical dance at NOCCA, a performing arts high school and three hours nightly in acrobatic gymnastics, in addition to maintaining honor roll status in academics.

    The day after turning 14 Christine became the first American to medal at World Cup taking bronze. She was featured on such shows as Incredible Kids, ESPN’s World Class Women & CBS Wide World of Sports. She exhibited at the Pan American Games, the Olympic Sports Festival, the World’s Fair, the Perfect 10 tour (with the US Olympic Gymnastics Team), and the Playoffs. In print she was featured on the cover of International Gymnast magazine, in National Geographic World Magazine, as well as various books, publications and television shows worldwide.

    She received the “Keys to the City” in three separate cities and “Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Citizen” in New Orleans.

    At 16 Fuji Film and the Japanese Gymnastics Federation selected her and her acrobatics partner Jay Groves to initiate sports acrobatics programs in Japan via exhibitions, clinics, and creation of instructional books and videos.

    Christine remained undefeated 7-time National Champion and she represented the US on the acro-gymnastics team in World Championships and World Cups every year until she retired from competition at 19. She was chosen Olympic Female Athlete of the Year and Athlete of the Decade. Inducted into the Gymnastics Hall of Fame and the World Acrobatics Society Gallery of Honor, she also received an Honorable Mention for “Overture to the Arts” (in dance).

Elected Student Representative, Student of the Year, and Valedictorian of her high school, she received an academic scholarship to college where she majored in Mass Communications at the University of New Orleans on the Dean’s list.

    After retiring from competition, Christine toured briefly with Kurt Thomas Gymnastics America. She then moved to Italy where for three years she taught acrobatics to children.

    Returning to the States, she worked as a gymnastics and acrobatics coach, choreographer and director from beginner to elite level. During this time she trained nationally and internationally competitive theatrical dance pairs and she choreographed for Cirque Ingenieux, a show that she eventually toured with for a year.

    Christine re-emerged into performing as a professional aerialist and acrobat, merging art with athleticism and challenging gravity. She has performed at the 2002 Olympics, at two Grammy Awards (with No Doubt and with Ricky Martin), at the American Music Awards (with Aerosmith), the Miss Universe Pageant, and Paul McCartney’s European tour, as well as several feature films, television shows and music videos. She choreographed the aerials for Britney Spears World Tour and the Stars on Ice US Tour, and she produced Secrets of the Circus Revealed, a series of circus instructional videos. She was trainer on the reality show “Celebrity Circus.”

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your yes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always want to be.

--Leonardo DaVinci