- Started Dancing at the age of 3 at Virginia Chittum's & then 2 year later Mindy took over the studio

- Has taken Tap, Jazz, Acrobats, Aerial Artists, Baton Jr. and Senior Line, Ballet, Toe, Clogging and Lyrical

- Started Assisting in 1986 & started Teaching her own classes in 1989

- Scholarship Student Winner twice. (Once for 1986-86 dance year for acrobats and once for the 1988-89 dance year for ballet)

- Travel several times to Myrtle Beack to attend Hoctor's Dance Caravan Conventions

- Also traveled to Pennsylvania to attend conventions

- Has performed in the Osmond's Christmas Production of "The Gimmie Bug", a commercial for the Mountaineer Mall & the Morgantown Christmas Parade

- Earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition & Foods from WVU 1995

- Also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from WVU in 1999

- Is currently employed at Chestnut Ridge Hospital WVUH as a Mental Health Specialist

- Kristi's husband Jeffrey is Jeffery and she has 3 boys, Tobias, Hunter and Levi