Christina "Kiki" Kelley

Christina "Kiki" Kelley could not be happier to support Coach Terry Steiner's vision for his current senior team heading into the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Kiki is currently a book editor, the most recent being Tiny Altars, which launched on April 21, 2023.

She is also launching her daughter from high school graduation to Carleton College and traveling with her daughter to the North Pole (Norway & Svalbard) this summer and heading to the South Pole (Chile & Antarctica) before the year is out.

Google's first-ever editor, Kiki was USA Wrestling's first woman Team Leader of the Men's Greco-Roman team, making history when she became the first woman to enter any sports arena in Iran since 1979.

Her one regret in life is to not have formally wrestled, except to pin her very successful wrestler brother fairly regularly. This explains why Kiki supports wrestling, especially for young women and girls.

She first met and fell in love with the senior women's team at the World Championships in Budapest in 2013, and later roomed with Adeline Gray, Helen Maroulis, Haley Augello, and Yelena Makoyed at the 2016 Rio Olympics, which she will forever cherish.

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