What year did you being lifting? My first competition was in 1994. I started training in 2004, after having my daughter.

Georgia Tech

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Make the Olympic Team, Break the American Records, win a medal at a major international competition. Grow Risto Sports Exponentially over next 5 years. Continue positive career trajectory.

Favorite Food: A latte with white and chocolate mousse cake (not to be confused with layer cake).

Favorite Book: “Outliers” by Malcom Gladwell

Favorite TV Show: It will be “America’s Got Talent”, when Howard Stern judges this season

Favorite song that gets you motivated: anything Rammestein, DMX” Up in Here”, Lady Gaga “Born this way”

Hobbies/Interested outside of Weightlifting: Working on my company Risto Sports, traveling. spending time with my husband and daughter, brushing- up on my programming skills, reading journal articles on stakeholder theory and enterprise transformation.

Most people don’t know that…. In my professional career, I have done things like manage the Lean programs for an entire plant; managed a Foreign military jet engine repair program, even shaking the hand of a Kuwaiti military leader after solving their Low Pressure Turbine module bottleneck; winning “Top Gun” in an F-16 flight simulator competition. According to my husband, Ivan: that I am a Rocket Scientist, that I play the violin, and that I can paint.

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