Chris Weinke is a former professional football and baseball player. After spending six years in the Toronto Blue Jays minor league baseball system, he enrolled at Florida State University at the age of 26, and played quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles. He thereafter played professionally in the National Football League, where he spent most of his career with the... read full bio
Before going pro, PGA player Chris Williams held the top spot in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for three straight years. He won six individual championships and received the Ben Hogan Award as the nation's top college athlete while playing in college. Williams won prestigious amateur competitions such the Western Amateur, Sahalee Amateur and Pacific Coast Amateur. He was a part... read full bio
Chris Wingert is an American professional soccer player who currently plays for New York Cosmos B as a defender in the National Premier Soccer League. Winger was born in Babylon, New York, and he began his career playing college soccer for St. John’s University, where he won a Hermann Trophy for best collegiate player. While in college, he also played... read full bio
Chris Wondolowski is an American soccer player who currently plays as a forward for the San Jose Earthquakes. Wondolowski was born in Danville, California, and he began his career playing soccer at his high school where he earned All-Bay Valley Athletic League first team and all-East Bay firm team honors. From there, Wondolowski went on to play college soccer at... read full bio
Chris Wright is an American professional basketball player who currently plays point guard for the Twarde Pierniki Torun of the Polish Basketball Leauge. Wright began his career playing for St. John’s College High School in Washington, D.C. and while there, he was a first three-time Washington Post All-Met selection as well as a McDonald’s All-American. Wright went on to play... read full bio
Christen Press is an American soccer player who has played forward for Utah Royals FC of the National Women’s Soccer League as well as for the United States women’s national soccer team. Press was born in Los Angeles, California, and she began her career playing soccer at her high school where she was a two-year team captain and a four-year... read full bio
Christian Fauria is an American former professional football tight end who played in the NFL. Fauria was born in Harbor City, California, and he began his career playing football in high school where he was the MVP, first team All-Def Rey League honoree, and was a first team All-CIF honoree. He went on to play college football at the University... read full bio
Former professional basketball player Christian Laettners hall-of-fame career for the Duke Blue Devils is recognized as one of the greatest in NCAA history. Raised in Angola, New York, Christian attributes his determination and competitive drive to his brother, who bulled him as a boy. During his college years playing on the basketball team, he scored over 2,000 points, which set... read full bio
Christian Okoye is a Nigerian-American former professional football running back who played with the Kansas City Chiefs the entirety of his football career. Okoye was born in Enugu, Nigeria, and he moved to the United States when he was 21 and began playing football at California’s Azusa Pacific University. Okoye went on to be drafted in the second round of... read full bio
Christian Ponder is a former American professional football quarterback who has played in the NFL. Ponder was born in Dallas, Texas, and he began his career playing high school football at Colleyville Heritage High School where he was named to The Dallas Morning News’ all-district first team. Ponder went on to play college football at Florida State where he was... read full bio
Christian Ramirez is an American professional soccer player who currently plays forward for the Houston Dynamo of the MLS. Ramirez was born in Santa Ana, California, and he began his career playing soccer in high school where he also played for the Olympic Development Program and earned the Golden Boot award. He went on to play college soccer first at... read full bio
Christian Sprenger is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer from Queensland who trained under Simon Cusack at the Commercial Swimming Club. Both the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke events were won by him in the Australian Swimming Championships. Later in the year, he took home nine FINA World Cup victories, along with seven silver and three bronze. He recorded a new personal... read full bio
Christian Vande Velde is a professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for Garmin-Transitions. The son of United States Bicycling Hall of Fame inductee John Vande Velde, Christian became professional in 1998 for US Postal. With the team time trial win by Slipstream-Chipotle in Stage 1 of the 2008 Giro d'Italia, Vande Velde became the first American to wear the... read full bio
Christian Yelich is an American professional baseball outfielder that plays for the Milwaukee Brewers of the MLB. Yelich was born in Thousand Oaks, California, and he began his career playing high school baseball at Westlake High School. From there, he was selected by the Miami Marlins in the MLB draft and he went on to play for the Greensboro Grasshoppers,... read full bio
Christie Patricia Pearce (who you probably know was Christie Ramone) was a professional soccer player, primarily playing as a defender. Christie also served as captain of the United States national team. Christie played in five different FIFA Women’s World Cup finals and four different Olympics women’s football tournaments. Christie, along with her team, won the championship of both the 1999... read full bio
Christine Sinclair is a Canadian soccer player and captain of the Canadian national team. Sinclair was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada and she has played as forward and attacking midfielder. Sinclair began playing soccer at 4 years old and she started playing with Burnaby South Secondary School where she helped lead them to three league championships. Sinclair went on... read full bio
Christy Martin, also known as “The Coal Miner’s Daughter”, is a former American world champion boxer who is CEO of Christy Martin Promotions, a boxing promotion company. Martin was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and as a child she played in various sports before going on to earn a basketball scholarship from Concord College in Athens, West Virginia where she... read full bio
Chuck Amato is a former American football coach and former football linebacker. Amato was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and he began his career playing football in high school before going on to play college football at North Carolina State University where he earned his B.S. in mathematics and his master’s in education. While playing football in college, he helped the... read full bio
Charles Bednarik is a former professional football player, known as one of the most devastating tacklers in the history of football and the last two-way player in the National Football League. Bednarik was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Bednarik was ranked number 35 on the NFL Network's The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players". Ranked one spot ahead... read full bio
Chuck Foreman is a retired American football football player. He was a running back during his National Football League career. Foreman was named NFC player of the year by The Sporting News. He was named All-Pro and played in five consecutive Pro Bowls. Foreman had 3 straight seasons rushing for 1,000+ yards and scored a then NFC record 22 Touchdowns... read full bio
