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Sarah Lancaster is an American actress. She is known for her long-running roles as Rachel in the NBC series Saved by the Bell: The New Class and... Ellie Bartowski in the NBC comedy-spy series Chuck, as well as playing Madison Kellner on The WB's Everwood and Marjorie in ABC's TV series What About Brian. Lancaster was born and raised in Overland Park, Kansas, with a younger brother, Daniel. As a teenager, her parents, Barbara and Michael, relocated to Mission Viejo, California, where Sarah took up film/TV acting classes with R. J. Adams at The Actors Workshop. Her skill impressed a talent agent, who helped the then-eighth grader to secure her first series-regular role on Saved by the Bell: The New Class in 1993. During this time, she was tutored on the set and took college courses at the University of California, Irvine to expedite her graduation from high school, after which she moved to Los Angeles to further her acting career. She has appeared on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Dawson's Creek, That '70s Show, Scrubs, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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Kaitlin Sandeno is a retired American swimmer, and was part of the team that set the world record in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer... Olympics. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Sandeno won the bronze medal in the 800 m freestyle event, along with 4th place in the 400 m individual medley and 6th place in the 200 m butterfly. In 2003, while enrolled at the University of Southern California, she won the US national championship in the 200m butterfly, 200 m IM, and 400 m IM events. The 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece saw Sandeno win three more Olympic medals: a silver medal in the 400 m IM, a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle, and a gold medal in the 4x200 m freestyle relay. The American team of Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, Dana Vollmer, and Sandeno also broke the seventeen-year-old world record by more than two seconds with their victory in the 4x200 m freestyle relay. After failing to qualify for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, Sandeno announced her retirement. She is currently looking to start a new career in sports broadcasting.
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Tara Dakides, born August 20, 1975, is an American snowboarder and co-owner of O-matic Snowboards. She was born in Mission Viejo, California. She has... snowboarded since she was 18 years old. She now resides in Mammoth Lakes, California. As a child she took part in gymnastics and skateboarding. When she was a teenager, she branched out into several other more dangerous sports and became involved in motocross, surfing, mountain- and snow-based sports. This variety of sports experience gave her an edge in the X Games competitions. At the Winter X Games in 1999 Dakides won a silver medal in slopestyle and a gold in big air, in 2000 she won two gold medals, one in slopestyle with a combined score of 88.50 after three runs, the other in big air with a combined score of 78.00. In 2001 she won another big air gold medal with a score of 89.00, and she was seventh in slopestyle. At the 2001 Sims World Championships she was first in slopestyle and fifth in big air At the 2002 X Games she won her third slopestyle gold medal. She also received EXPN's Snowboarder of the Year award. In May 2003 Dakides participated in the Gumball 3000 rally race.
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Gabby Soleil is an American actress. She played Adriana on The Hughleys in the 2001–2002 season, and Destiny Johnson in the 2004 comedy... feature film Johnson Family Vacation. She appeared in the 2005 telefilm The Reading Room, and she provides the voice of Jazmine Dubois, a supporting character on the animated series The Boondocks. Soleil's other television appearances include the recurring role of Young Dee Dee on the UPN sitcom Half & Half and a spot on the 35th NAACP Image Awards in 2004. She was born in Mission Viejo, California.
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David Clayton Henrie is an American actor, television writer, and producer. He is noted for playing Ted Mosby's future son on How I Met Your Mother,... Justin Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place and Larry on That's So Raven. He is the elder brother of the actor Lorenzo Henrie. Henrie was born in Mission Viejo, California, the son of Linda and Jim Henrie, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the brother of actor Lorenzo Henrie. Henrie was raised as a Roman Catholic and, according to his website, comes from a "large, loud, Italian family". Henrie is an avid hockey fan. In a video chat, Henrie stated that he is "a Christian and always will be." By age 13, Henrie got his first big break, landing a regular role as Petey Pitt on the Fox sitcom The Pitts. Henrie next landed a leading role in the Hallmark movie, Monster Makers, with Linda Blair and George Kennedy, and was asked to come back for another Hallmark movie, to play a role in Dead Hollywood Moms Society. At the age of 18, Henrie got the role of Justin Russo in the Disney Channel Original Series, Wizards of Waverly Place. The show premiered on October 12, 2007.
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Brian Thomas Lopes is a professional mountain bike racer who specializes in four-cross. Lopes started riding BMX in his childhood and turned... professional at seventeen years old. He started mountain biking in 1993 and has since won a total of 18 titles – 9 NORBA National Championships, 6 UCI World Cup wins and 4 UCI World Championship titles. Lopes has also held world records in bunny hopping, in terms of both distance and height. He was nominated in 2001 for an ESPY "Action sport Athlete of the Year" and won two NEA for "Mountain Biker of the Year" in 2000 & 2001. Lopes has also co-written a book, Mastering Mountain Bike Skills with Lee McCormack. Lopes has also been featured in a videogame; Downhill Domination on the Sony PlayStation 2. Lopes is currently sponsored by Ibis, Oakley, Lazer, X-Fusion, SRAM, Kenda, ENVE Composites, WTB, ODI, & MRP. On April 13th 2012 Lopes won the first race of the new cross-country eliminator World Cup series in Houffalize, Belgium.
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William Tell is the former rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the Piano rock band Something Corporate. After leaving the band in 2004 for a... solo career, William Tell was signed as a New Door Records solo artist. His first solo record, You Can Hold Me Down was released on March 13, 2007. William Tell was born into a gospel music family in Orange County, California. He learned to play guitar from his father at a young age and began writing his own songs as well. Tell met some of the members Something Corporate through mutual friends and one night when he was playing at a club they were also playing, he was asked to temporarily fill in, as their rhythm guitarist Reuben Hernandez left to study abroad. So on March 27, 2001, Tell permanently joined the Drive-Thru Records piano rock band Something Corporate. Tell witnessed the success of Something Corporate over the three years he played with them — through their EP Audioboxer, released on October 2, 2001, to their full-length albums Leaving Through the Window and North , as well as tours with bands like New Found Glory.
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