Amateur Career
Christian grew up playing hockey, gridiron football, and baseball, as well as competing on the track and field team, at Warroad High School. He later attended the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, where he played for the North Dakota Fighting Sioux hockey team and played in the 1979 national championship, as North Dakota lost the championship game to the University of Minnesota and Christian's future Olympic teammate, Neal Broten.
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