Allison Stokke

Birthday:3/22/1989
Nickname:the future Mrs. B.o.g.
Birthname:Allison Stokke
Hometown:Norwalk, California
Assets:Knows how to handle a pole.
Vices:Has her clothes on, late night pizza without pineapple obviously
Sign:Aries
Height:5'7
Job:Pole Vaulting
Hobbies:Pole Dancing
Ethnicity:White
Country of Origin:United States

Filmography
Actress:
1. "iCarly" (1 episode, 2008)
- iPromote Techfoots (2008) TV episode

Allison Stokke is an American pole vaulter from Orange County, California.

In 2004, Stokke won a California state championship at age 15, and broke several national records in her age division. Her 2005 season was hampered by an injury, as she broke her right tibia in May. As a senior at Newport Harbor High School, her personal best was 13' 7" (4.14 m), the second-best mark in the nation for a female senior in that calendar year.

In May 2007, Stokke won the CIF-Southern Section Masters meet.

In June, Stokke advanced to the CIF State Championship finals by clearing 12' 3" (3.73 m), and eventually finished fourth in the competition that was won by Tori Anthony. Stokke said that her legs had been hurting for a while, which interfered with her sprinting down the runway. She plans to vault for UC Berkeley in 2008.

Stokke grew up as a gymnast, and attempted pole vaulting her freshman year of high school, setting a school record only two months after her start. She would win the state championship three months later, she set a national record for her age group in her sophomore year, at 12' 8".

Ranked number two in the state of California, Stokke recovered from a broken tibia her sophomore year to set a personal record of 13' 7". In total, Stokke has broken five California pole vaulting records, and is planning to attend the University of California on scholarship, after being recruited by Harvard University, Stanford University, and UCLA.

Life Story
Soon, more pictures would surface, millions of new fans would stare at her gazingly, and this future California Bear Field Star, would find unexpected, and unwanted fame as one of the few Internet stars that have kept their clothes on.
She was the National Freshman Record holder in the pole-vault in 2004 going 12-08 and winning the California State Meet. In 2005 she was trying out a new pole during a practice session at Golden West College and unfortunately fell into the concrete box, breaking her tibia.

Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Russian: Александра Константиновна Костенюк )

Born on April 23, 1984 in Perm, Volga Federal District
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Russian: Александра Константиновна Костенюк ) is a Russian chess Grandmaster and the current Women's World Chess Champion.

Alexandra learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father. She has a little sister named Oxana, who is a woman FIDE master level chess player.

Her chess career is full of notable achievements. In 2001, at the age of 17, she reached the final of the World Women's Chess Championship, but was defeated by Zhu Chen. Three years later, she became female European champion by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany. She also won the 2005 Russian Women's Championship, held in Samara, Russia, finishing with a score of +7 =4 -0. In August 2006, she became the first Chess960 (Fischer random) women world champion after beating Germany's top female player Elisabeth Pähtz 5.5-2.5. She defended that title successfully in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno 2.5-1.5. However, her top success so far has been to win the Women's World Chess Championship 2008, beating in the final the young Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan, with a score of 2.5-1.5.

In November 2004, she was awarded the International Grandmaster title, becoming the tenth woman to receive the highest title of the World Chess Federation, FIDE (see Fédération Internationale des Échecs). Before that, she had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. She is 11th on the April 2009 FIDE women Elo rating list with a rating of 2516.

Kosteniuk's mottos have been "chess is cool" and "beauty and intelligence can go together". With these as a backdrop, Kosteniuk has been promoting chess in the capacity of a fashion model and ambassador of chess in order to spark interest in the game around the world.

She is also the host of a popular podcast "Chess is Cool" which informs listeners about Alexandra's life and current chess events.

You have undoubtedly an important role to play in promoting chess as an icon for a younger generation in Russia and all over the world. What role do you see yourself playing in the future?
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk:- Especially now that I have a little baby daughter, I see my role as teaching chess to kids, showing them that chess is a great game that can help them in their life, first at school, then succeeding in life.

In August 2006 you became the first Chess960 (Fischer Random) women world champion, could you tell us about your views on future for Fischer Random chess?
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk:- I absolutely love Fischer Random Chess (Chess960), it's a great invention of Bobby Fischer, it allows us to start playing chess from move 1 on. One thing I don't like about chess preparation of Grandmasters nowadays is the enormous amount of time one needs to devote to opening preparation. In Fischer Random you need to use your brains from the very beginning, the games become immediately interesting and unusual. Fischer Random favors the better player, the one with more imagination and better calculating skills. I am looking forward to defending my title in Mainz in August 2008.

Russian's have added chess as a subject in the Schools; do you think Chess can be used as a powerful educational tool?
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk:- Chess is a most useful tool it has been proven many times. It improves memory, stimulates logical thinking, and helps to show kids that the world is quite a competitive place, either you win, or your neighbor will. It is also great to show that the more you work at chess, the better you will become. That is valid for anything in life.

Most of the world champions came from Russia, What could be the reasons? What qualities make Russians dominate the chess world?
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk:- I think it's the fact that in the Soviet Union chess was so highly viewed, so many kids started to play chess, there were so many chess schools that selected the most gifted kids and gave them top trainers. Chess Grandmasters were heroes and so everybody dreamed of becoming one and worked a lot on chess, creating the famous Soviet Chess School. I think in general the whole world has very gifted people, it's partly a numbers game, and partly a good teaching system.

Apart from chess, you have snagged attention with your good looks, your glamorous photos on magazines, modeling with a new chess uniforms etc. Do you think glamour can help in popularizing chess world wide?
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk:- Glamour can help to attract people to chess. Many people think that chess is boring, and parents may not want their kid to be like they perceive like a boring chess player. So when they see an article that shows me being a "normal" girl, looking "normal", and having time to play chess, they think "Hey, I think if my daughter was like this girl it would not be so bad", and so that's good for the image of chess.

World Rank
World (all players): 704
World (active players): 637
Female (active players): 11

National Rank RUS
National (all players): 128
National (active players): 108
Female (active players): 2

Continent Rank Europe
Rank (all players): 560
Rank (active players): 513
Female (active players): 8

Full name Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Александра Константиновна Костенюк)
Country Russia
Born April 23, 1984 (1984-04-23) (age 25)
Perm, Volga Federal District, Russia
Title Grandmaster
Women's World Champion 2008 - present
FIDE rating 2516
(No. 11 on the April 2009 FIDE rating list for women)
Peak rating 2540 (April 2006)
Official Website http://www.kosteniuk.com/

Allison Stokke

Birthday:3/22/1989
Nickname:the future Mrs. B.o.g.
Birthname:Allison Stokke
Hometown:Norwalk, California
Assets:Knows how to handle a pole.
Vices:Has her clothes on, late night pizza without pineapple obviously
Sign:Aries
Height:5'7
Job:Pole Vaulting
Hobbies:Pole Dancing
Ethnicity:White
Country of Origin:United States

Filmography
Actress:
1. "iCarly" (1 episode, 2008)
- iPromote Techfoots (2008) TV episode

Allison Stokke is an American pole vaulter from Orange County, California.

In 2004, Stokke won a California state championship at age 15, and broke several national records in her age division. Her 2005 season was hampered by an injury, as she broke her right tibia in May. As a senior at Newport Harbor High School, her personal best was 13' 7" (4.14 m), the second-best mark in the nation for a female senior in that calendar year.

In May 2007, Stokke won the CIF-Southern Section Masters meet.

In June, Stokke advanced to the CIF State Championship finals by clearing 12' 3" (3.73 m), and eventually finished fourth in the competition that was won by Tori Anthony. Stokke said that her legs had been hurting for a while, which interfered with her sprinting down the runway. She plans to vault for UC Berkeley in 2008.

Stokke grew up as a gymnast, and attempted pole vaulting her freshman year of high school, setting a school record only two months after her start. She would win the state championship three months later, she set a national record for her age group in her sophomore year, at 12' 8".

Ranked number two in the state of California, Stokke recovered from a broken tibia her sophomore year to set a personal record of 13' 7". In total, Stokke has broken five California pole vaulting records, and is planning to attend the University of California on scholarship, after being recruited by Harvard University, Stanford University, and UCLA.

Life Story
Soon, more pictures would surface, millions of new fans would stare at her gazingly, and this future California Bear Field Star, would find unexpected, and unwanted fame as one of the few Internet stars that have kept their clothes on.
She was the National Freshman Record holder in the pole-vault in 2004 going 12-08 and winning the California State Meet. In 2005 she was trying out a new pole during a practice session at Golden West College and unfortunately fell into the concrete box, breaking her tibia.

CAMILLE PIN

Born 25 August 1981 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes
Camille Pin is a French tennis player. As of 15 January 2007, she is ranked No. 62 on the WTA Singles Tour.

“Initially, I was trying to stand close to the baseline, and was making mistakes.”

“It is a bit tough to get back into the match after two days of rest. It was tough to make my body wake up. I was feeling very tired.”
-Camille Pin

Camille's 2006 season was rather successful, for a player ranked lower than the top 100 in the women's tour. After a second-round loss to Serena Williams in the Australian Open, she made 3 ITF tour event finals, taking one of the titles at Lexington. She also made some reasonable showings at official WTA Tour events, especially qualifying for the Tier I event at Indian Wells and making the second round. However her 2006 grand slam second round showing at the Australian Open would prove to be her best Grand Slam result of the year, falling in the first round of every other major to tough opponents.

Pin made headlines at the 2007 Australian Open, after playing top seed Maria Sharapova in the first round and coming within two points of winning the match. After recovering from a 0–5 deficit in the final set, Pin eventually lost with a final score of 3–6, 6–4, 7–9.

Pin dated male professional tennis player Arnaud Clément of France.

On 9 March 2008, Camille won the Hilton Cup, defeating American Asia Muhammad 6–4, 6–1.

She is not tall, but she has talent and besides this a pretty face. Over 500,000 dollars were won until now from tennis . She has to train hard and give her best on the tennis court and this ay she can win titles and matches.

SINGLES

Winner:
2008 - ITF/Las Vegas, NV-USA;
2006 - ITF/Lexington, KY-USA;
2005 - ITF/College Park, MD-USA;
2004 - ITF/Lexington, KY-USA;
2003 - ITF/Saint Raphael-FRA;
2002 - ITF/Joue-les-Tours-FRA, ITF/Saint Raphael-FRA;
2000 - ITF/Vilamoura-POR.

Semifinalist (4):
2008 - Guangzhou;
2007 - Auckland;
2006 - Tokyo [Japan Open];
2004 - Vancouver.

Quarterfinalist (7):
2008 - Estoril, Stockholm;
2007 - Prague, Fès, Tokyo [Japan Open], Bangkok;
2006 - Bangalore.

DOUBLES
Winner:
1998 - ITF/Dinan-FRA (w/Vedy), ITF/Zadar-CRO (w/Visic).

# Coached by Jacques-Olivier Moers; practices with Lagardère Paris Racing Team
# Baseliner who prefers hardcourts; best asset is consistency
# Father, Claude, is a retired teacher; mother, Florence, is a retired engineer; has two older sisters, Valérie and Raphaelle
# Began playing at age 5 when parents took her to a nearby club
# Speaks French, English and a little Spanish
# Favorite movie is Gladiator; favorite actor is Jack Nicholson
# Favorite type of music is rock; favorite band is U2
# Favorite food is Japanese; favorite drink is red wine
# Enjoys skiing, scuba diving, shopping, going to the cinema and reading
# Most memorable experience was playing Sharapova at the 2007 Australian Open
# Superstition is to stop wearing an outfit if she loses three times in a row with it
# Person most admired is Amélie Mauresmo, because she is "a great person and reached No.1"
# Goal is to reach Top 30.

Country :- France
Residence :-Nice, France
Date of birth :-25 July 1981 (1981-07-25)
Place of birth :-Nice, France
Height :-1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight :-53 kg (120 lb; 8.3 st)
Turned pro :-1999
Plays :-Right-handed
Career prize money :-US$837,527
Career record:- 327–292
Career titles:- 0 WTA (8 ITF)
Highest ranking:- No. 61 (8 January 2007)

Grand Slam results
Australian Open :- 2r (2004, 2006, 2008)
French Open :-1r (2001–2008)
Wimbledon :-1r (2006, 2007, 2008)
US Open :-2r (2007)