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 and the Tipton Poetry Review. In addition to writing, Christine's professional background is in the area of integrated communications. She is the president of CB Creative, Inc., an integrated marketing consulting firm.
A resident of New York, Christine is a member of the Mount Saint Mary College Alumni Board of Directors, a lifetime member of the Middlesex County (Connecticut) Sports Hall of Fame, a member of the Author's Guild, the Women's Sports Foundation, Public Relations Society of America, NY Women in Communications and the Rockland Business Women's Network. 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 and was a finalist for a Billie Award in Journalism from the Women’s Sports Foundation in 2009.
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 is at work on a feature film script based on the life of Emily Dickinson. She recently completed her second book entitled iRules: Etiquette for the Digital Music Revolution with co-author Karen Eilbacher.
“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.”
- Christine Baker, Author Why She Plays