Christina McDonald (gymnast)

Christina McDonald
Full name	Christina Anne McDonald Fritz
Country represented	Canada
Born	1970
Discipline	Artistic gymnastics
Years on national team	Canadian National
College team	University of Florida
Head coach(es)	Leonid Grakovsky and Debbie Vidmar

Christina Anne McDonald Fritz (born 1970) is a former college and international gymnast from Canada.

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.^[1] 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. McDonald married in 2007 in the United States, and took the name "Fritz" as her married name.

Rankings

1983

• International Japan Juniors: 7th AA

1984

• Champions All: 4th AA

1985

• Elite Canada: 2nd AA
• American Cup: 7th AA
• Canadian Nationals: 3rd AA, 3rd V
• Belgian Gym Masters: 5th AA, 1st UB
• World Championships: 9th T, 26th AA

1986

• Canadian Nationals: 2nd AA, 2nd BB, 2nd FX

1987

• Canadian Nationals: 3rd AA, 5th V, 5th UB, 1st BB, 5th FX
• World Championships: 8th T

1988

• Canadian Olympic Trials
• Olympic Games: 11th T

See also

	Biography portal
	Olympics portal

• Florida Gators
• List of University of Florida alumni
• List of University of Florida Olympians

References

1. ^ Florida Gymnastics 2011 Media Supplement, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 51, 54, 61, 65, 67–71, 73 (2011). Retrieved 1 August 2011.

External links

• Christina McDonald on Gymn.ca

Persondata
Name	McDonald, Christina
Alternative names	McDonald, Christina Anne; McDonald, Christina A.; McDonald-Fritz, Christina; Fritz, Christina
Short description	Canadian international gymnast, college gymnast
Date of birth	1970
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Date of death
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