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Jamie Dantzscher
gymnastics (USA)
2000 Sydney |
She ended her Olympic competition when the US team ended in 4th
place. She performed poorly in earlier qualifiers, leaving her out of
individual competition. For the US team, she performed best on the
Uneven Bars and in the Floor Exercises, doing much better than she did
in the qualifiers. However, her performance wasn't enough to boost the
US team to a medal. |
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Neleh Dennis
Contestant: Survivor Marquesas (2002) |
Neleh Dennis appeared on Survivor (2002). She is a
21-year-old student from Layton, Utah. "Neleh" is "Helen" spelled
backwards. She is a Mormon, and she brought "scriptures" as her luxury
item. 
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Michele Despain
Luger
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Hoeger's dad was born and raised in Venezuela, and Hoeger is also a
dual citizen. He and his dad competed in luge for Venezuela in the 2002
Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, fulfilling a lifelong dream for
Hoeger's dad. |
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Sheri L. Dew
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Sheri Dew graduated from Brigham Young University. She served as
second counselor in the general Relief Society from 1997 to 2002. In
March 2003 the White House appointed her a member of the U.S. Delegation
to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations. She is
also the author of the biographies of President Gordon B. Hinckley and
President Ezra Taft Benson and the inspirational book No Doubt About
It Deseretbook.com |
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Liriel Domiciano |
Liriel Domiciano, is a convert to the church
and a native of Brazil. Liriel is a star in her home country, winning
the Brazilian version of American Idol and has sold millions of CD's .
Quoted in the Church News, Liriel said, "as I continue to surround
myself with all that the gospel represents, I am protected. The gospel
is my shield."
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Carlene Duda |
Carlene Duda is the
author of two cookbooks, “Beyond Oatmeal, 101 Breakfast Recipes”, and
“Completely Breakfast” Summer ’08. Her passion for breakfast foods
is evident in her recipes which are the inspiration for her books. Her
award winning recipes have been publishedIn newspapers and copyrighted
by C&H Sugar Company.
Carlene attended
Ricks College (BYU-Idaho) and Brigham Young University. She is a
culinary writer, teacher, and cook.She lives in Puyallup Washington,
with her husband Scott, and their four children.
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Megan Dirkmaat
Rowing (USA)
silver 2004 Athens |
From San Jose, California, Sister Dirkmaat was part of the U.S. crew
that placed second in the 22 Aug women's eight finals. The Americans
finished 1.86 seconds behind gold-medalists of Romania. |
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Kelly Eisenhour
Jazz |
Kelly Eisenhour is a prolific jazz vocalist. She has
performed in various jazz festivals and has toured as guest soloist with
the Boston Pops conducted by Keith Lockhart. She is also a songwriter
and arranger, and has done numerous projects in that capacity, including
the 2006 Grammy award winning album, Gladys Knight: One Voice, in which
she serves as songwriter, soloist, co-arranger, and assistant choir
director. Kelly has three jazz recordings
Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops
says, "Kelly's such a great performer, it's truly a pleasure to share a
stage with her. Great sound, great approach to the music, really
versatile. ....she's the real thing." |
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The Fab Five
Season 5 contestants
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Five Mormon Girls from Morgan Utah
From a dairy farm in rural Utah where life consisted of raising
wheat, cows, and family, came five fabulous sisters who could accomplish
daily dairy chores in the morning and dance like wildfire at dusk.
Nearly three decades of dancing has brought tours, trophies, husbands,
and kids. Ultimately, the sisters' lives have been filled with smiles
and tears: their father lost his farm to economic hardships, a child
with severe Cerebral Palsy and another with kidney disease, but through
it all, family and dancing were there. Win or lose, The Fab 5 are
forever family strong. NBC.com
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Terri Ferran |
Terri Ferran
grew up in a small Colorado town that offered little in the way of
entertainment. She escaped through reading (and later on a Continental
Trailways bus), and although the town didn't have a library, she eagerly
anticipated the coming of the Bookmobile and would check out stacks of
books at a time.
She moved to Utah
as a high school senior where she joined the LDS Church and met her
husband, Tod. She dreamed of being a writer but took the safe route of
becoming a CPA. She finally got brave enough to quit working in the safe
world of numbers to pursue her dream of writing and also to spend more
time with her children. She got her first book, Finding Faith
published in 2007 and is excited to be living her dream of writing in
real life.
Check out her website at
www.terriferran.com
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Tairia Mims Flowers
softball (USA)
gold 2004 Athens |
Team USA went undefeated, giving up only one run during the Games.
Sister Mims Flowers is from Tucson, Arizona. |
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Amy
Freeze
meteorologist
Yes, that really is her name! |
Amy Freeze
is the weekend meteorologist at
WABC-TV
in New York. She was the chief
meteorologist
for
Fox
owned-and-operated
station
WFLD
in
Chicago
from 2007–2011.
Freeze has certificate number 111
from the
American
Meteorological Society as a Certified
Broadcast Meteorologist—she was one of the first 20 women in the world
to receive this certification. In addition, Freeze has her
National Weather
Association and American Meteorological
Society Seals of Approval. She is a three-time
National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences
Emmy Award
winner.
Before
joining WFLD, she worked for NBC's WCAU in
Philadelphia
for four years. During that time she went to the plaza in New York City
to fill in for the "Weekend Today Show". She also worked in
Denver
at both
KWGN
and
KMGH.
She began her broadcasting career in Portland, OR at KPTV. Freeze had a
cameo appearance in the "Scrubs"
episode
My Life in Four
Cameras. Freeze uses viewers' digital
photos capturing the weather, including them in her forecasts as "Freeze
Frame." Amy created "The Freeze Factor"- a special segment where she
rates the next days weather on a scale of 1 to 10.
During her time in
Chicago, Freeze used to visit about 10,000 area students each year
giving weather presentations on tornados and severe weather. She hosted
the first ever Weather Education Days for MLB's Chicago White Sox, the
Chicago Cubs, and for The Chicago Wolves Hockey team.
Freeze was the
first ever female sideline reporter for Major League Soccer working for
the Colorado Rapids, LA Galaxy, and the Chicago Fire. She currently does
sideline reporting for the Chicago Fire.
Freeze has a
website that teaches the reader how to record weather information of his
or her own (see External links). Her Master Thesis (from the University
of Pennsylvania) is an exclusive concept called the Stormwater Action
Alert Program which she created during her research in Philadelphia. She
has presented on the topic to many environmental groups.
Freeze is a
Latter-day Saint.
She met her husband, Dr. Gary Arbuckle, when she was a cheerleader at
Brigham Young
University and he was
Cosmo the Cougar.
She received a degree in communications from BYU and a degree in
meteorology from
Mississippi State
University.
Freeze was
mentioned several times during the ESPN Monday Night Football broadcast,
December 22, 2008. It was the coldest kickoff ever at Soldier Field for
the Chicago Bears.
Amy Elizabeth
Freeze is the name she was born with, she is the oldest of 5 girls, and
she was raised by Bill and Linda Freeze in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
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Jenny Jordan Frogley |
She's opened for Ray Charles, substituted for both Aretha Franklin
and Gladys Knight and sung at Radio City Music Hall and Opryland . . . .
Pick up a local CD and chances are very good that she might be singing
back-up vocals or an individual song or two she appears on close to 100
albums.
And if you play the "King Kong" video game, hers is the last voice
you hear before you die. Deseret News
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