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SI profile: Minnesota C Jon Christenson has Ivy League brains & old-fashioned taste
per SI:
At 23, he's the only married student-athlete at Minnesota, a fact his teammates both admire and use as ammunition. (Erika, a former Minnesota student, now works as an office manager.) He tells them "going home to your best friend every day is the best feeling in the world," and a great way to learn "exactly how selfish you are." He speaks at team chapel, wowing coaches and players with his thoughtfulness.
Christenson shucks technology, refusing to pay for cable at his apartment. Facebook, Twitter and all other forms of social media are unnecessary and "a distraction from marriage," he says, so he's good without those, too. He and Erika own a TV, but only because it came as a gift at the 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl. Mostly they use it to watch NFL and college games—"she likes football quite a bit," Christenson says, which prompts a hearty laugh from Erika—and Netflix, a service gifted to them on their wedding day. And in a move that belies his generation, Christenson only recently purchased a smart phone. As in, six months ago.
"My flip phone could go a week without charging," he says wistfully. "Now, I have to charge my Android every night."
Adds Kill: "Between football and studying to be a doctor and being married, I don't think TV and that [other] stuff is a priority."
http://www.campusrush.com/jon-chris...gophers-walk-on-1404196953.html?xid=cr_social
Go Gophers!!
per SI:
At 23, he's the only married student-athlete at Minnesota, a fact his teammates both admire and use as ammunition. (Erika, a former Minnesota student, now works as an office manager.) He tells them "going home to your best friend every day is the best feeling in the world," and a great way to learn "exactly how selfish you are." He speaks at team chapel, wowing coaches and players with his thoughtfulness.
Christenson shucks technology, refusing to pay for cable at his apartment. Facebook, Twitter and all other forms of social media are unnecessary and "a distraction from marriage," he says, so he's good without those, too. He and Erika own a TV, but only because it came as a gift at the 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl. Mostly they use it to watch NFL and college games—"she likes football quite a bit," Christenson says, which prompts a hearty laugh from Erika—and Netflix, a service gifted to them on their wedding day. And in a move that belies his generation, Christenson only recently purchased a smart phone. As in, six months ago.
"My flip phone could go a week without charging," he says wistfully. "Now, I have to charge my Android every night."
Adds Kill: "Between football and studying to be a doctor and being married, I don't think TV and that [other] stuff is a priority."
http://www.campusrush.com/jon-chris...gophers-walk-on-1404196953.html?xid=cr_social
Go Gophers!!
