Retired 1993 Name Christina McDonald | Role Olympic athlete | |
Full name Christina Anne McDonald Fritz Head coach(es) Leonid Grakovsky, Debbie Vidmar College team | ||
Years on national team Canadian National | ||
Christina mcdonald 1988 seoul olympic vt
Christina Anne McDonald Fritz (born 1969), née Christina Anne McDonald, is a former college and international gymnast from Canada.
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McDonald made her international debut at the International Japan Juniors in 1983, placing seventh all-around. She had continued success in the mid-1980s, and was a member of Canada's Olympic team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
McDonald accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she was a member of coach Ernestine Weaver's Florida Gators women's gymnastics team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1989 to 1992. In the opening meet of the Gators' 1989 season, she tore her Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) on a beam dismount. She returned to competition with the Gators the following season, but chose not to do the vault. McDonald graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in health science education in 1993.
McDonald has worked as a missionary at E.W.T.N., Global Catholic Network starting in 2001 - 2010. McDonald married in 2007 in the United States, and took the name "Fritz" as her married name.