Personal Life
Cheek picked up speed skating after meeting and watching neighborhood friend Bryan Anderson skate around the neighborhood training for Nationals. After years of skating with Bryan, his brother, and other Piedmont skaters he switched to ice speed skating.
Cheek attended James B. Dudley High School in Greensboro, North Carolina, and graduated from Princeton University as a member of the class of 2011, where he studied economics and the Chinese language.
On Tuesday, August 12, 2008, Cheek appeared on the Colbert Report and discussed Sino-Sudanese relations.
In 2010, Cheek was inducted in to The World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame because of his humanitarian work with Team Darfur.
He has been linked to daughter of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Georgina Bloomberg, essayist Sloane Crosley and pentathlete Margaux Isaksen.
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