The Author
Born and raised in rural Connecticut, Christine professes to have fallen in love twice before the age of 10. She fell first for the game of basketball. Shortly thereafter, she fell in love with writing and telling stories. Or maybe it was the other way around.
Christine is considered an expert on the subject of women’s basketball. She is a cited source for the New York Times sports department and lectures regularly on the subjects of Title IX, youth sports and women’s basketball.
Christine has over 80 bylined articles to her name including articles in Got Game Magazine, Full Court Press Online, Confluence, Beginnings Literary Magazine, Thysia Magazine and the Tipton Poetry Review. In addition to writing, Christine is an experienced communications professional. She is the president of CB Creative, Inc., an integrated communications consulting firm that provides strategic planning, public relations, brand development and marketing consulting services. She is also an adjunct professor of Communication Arts at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, NY.
A resident of New York, Christine is a member of the Author's Guild, Rockland Business Women's Network, Women's Sports Foundation, and New York Women in Communications. Christine was named one of the Hudson Valley's PROUD Women of the Year in 2008. She was named one of Rockland County's Forty Under 40. She was a finalist for a Billie Award in Journalism from the Women’s Sports Foundation in 2009 and a finalist for the Sundance Screenwriters Institute in 2011. She was inducted into the Middletown, Connecticut Sports Hall of Fame in January 2011.
Christine was a three-sport athlete in high school and continued on to play Division III basketball at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York, where she was co-captain and team MVP for three of her four seasons. She broke the single season scoring record (both men and women) with 538 points, still holds the single game scoring record (both men and women) with 38 points, broke the all-time leading scoring record with 1,523 points, and received over 15 different accolades in her senior year alone.
She received a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Wesleyan University. Her thesis project, based on women's basketball, was awarded the University's prestigious Rulewater Prize.
Christine has recently completed her second book entitled iRules: Etiquette for the Digital Music Revolution which will be released shortly as an e-book. She is working on a feature film script, based on the life of Emily Dickinson as well as a collection of poetry.
“Many people ask me why I wrote this book. For me, it’s very simple. I love writing. I love basketball. The sport of basketball has given me so much. It has taught me life lessons and made me a better person for playing it. I wanted to give something back to the sport that gave me so much. I also wanted to remind myself Why I Play. That’s how the book was born.”
“I'd love to talk with anyone interested in women's basketball. Find me on Twitter @ChrisBaker15.”
- Christine Baker, Author Why She Plays