Aug. 1, 2023

Christine Yu: Up to Speed, The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

Christine Yu: Up to Speed, The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

Christine Yu is an award-winning journalist who loves telling stories about the intersection of sports science and women athletes, and wrote UP TO SPEED: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes, which was released in spring of this year.

Christine Yu is an award-winning journalist. She writes about sports, science, and health. She especially loves telling stories about the intersection of sports science and women athletes and wrote a book about it. UP TO SPEED: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes, was published on May 16, 2023 by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Her reported features, profiles, and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Outside Magazine, Runner's World, Family Circle, SELF, Eating Well, VICE, and espnW, among others. {See her portfolio here.} She also writes for trade publications, professional associations, educational institutions, and brands. Her clients include Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Phillips Academy, the American Physiological Society, and REI.

In addition to writing, she’s a seasoned grant writer and has led and managed the full cycle of program development for requests to private and corporate funders as well as local, state, and federal government agencies. She earned her B.A. in Art History from Columbia University and her Masters of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.

She lives in Brooklyn, NY with my husband and two sons. She’s a lifelong athlete who likes to run, practice yoga, hike, swim, and surf.

Christine's Website/Book

Artwork photo credit: Shelly Xu / @someshellyphotography

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