Ms. Erickson is one of the newest members of the Regina Dominican staff. She attended Glenbrook South High School and University of Illinois. She graduated from U of I in 2009 with her masters in Special Education. Now, she is a Physical Education and Health teacher at Regina.

Q: What where you like in high school?

A: I was an athlete. I played three sports but gymnastics was my number one for my whole life. I also played soccer and volleyball for two years. I started gymnastics when I was about five and then I continued at U of I and did it on a club team…

Q: What is your spirit animal and why?

A: I guess I would say Energizer Bunny because I’m constantly moving and working out and seem to have never-ending energy.

Q: What is the best part of the laid-back, all-girls school environment?

A: I like the small classes. At the public school that I taught at, we had up to 45 kids in a class. Now, I have 11 in one of my classes and its just so much better. They get so much more attention.

Q: What do in your free time?

A: I am here all the time and I coached sports when I was at public school, so I think I will continue to coach at GBS. I do CrossFit with my gym friends or I spend time with my family.

Q: Do you have any strange hobbies?

A: No. I’m not very interesting.

Q: What is your favorite kind of music?

A: Well, right now were listening to Michael Jackson. I hated country music when I was a kid, but now I really like Kenny Chesney and the Zac Brown Band. I hate Nine Inch Nails.

Q: Do you have any funny stories from high school?

A: My gymnastics coach was my P.E. teacher and he joked through high school that I should be a P.E. teacher and now I am a P.E. teacher. I am going to be coaching with him. He was my mentor my whole life. Now we are going to be coaching for-real together side-by-side.

Q: If you could have any 3 people at dinner with you, dead or alive, who would it be?

A: Michael Jackson, Brian Urlacher, and Justin Timberlake.

Q: If you were not teaching at Regina Dominican, what would you be doing?

A: I would have pursued CrossFit and would have tried to be a professional.