Chris Egan (tennis)

Chris Egan was one of the top men’s tennis players in the Northwest Conference all four of his years at Pacific Lutheran University, and the 1995 PLU Man of the Year in sports. He is also the 2012 Alumnus of the Year in Sports. Coming to PLU out of Puyallup High School, Chris helped lead the Lutes to four consecutive Northwest Conference titles from 1992-95. During those three years, he played No. 1 or No. 2 singles, and represented the school at the 1994 and 1995 NAIA national tournaments.

After starting his career in the mid 1990s in several small Pacific Northwest media markets, Egan came back to the Seattle area to work for Northwest Cable News as a sports anchor and producer on NorthWest Sports Tonight. He joined the KING 5 sports department as a reporter and anchor in June 2007.

Over the past few years, Egan has been nominated for several Emmy awards, including three recent nominations. In 2009 he won the Emmy for Sports Anchoring; in 2010, he received the Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Story of the Year. He is one of the region’s top sports media personalities, and still finds time to remain active with his family, including helping coach several of his three children’s sports teams.

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Christopher Egan

Christopher Andrew Egan (born 29 June 1984) is an Australian actor. He played Nick Smith in the Australian soap opera Home and Away from 2000 to 2003, and David Shepherd on the NBC television drama Kings. He also portrayed Alex Lannon in the Apocalyptic TV Series, Dominion.

Life and career

Egan was born in Sydney, Australia. He has appeared in several commercials and did some modelling, but his ability and ambition for acting came out when he performed in the Glen Street productions of Les Misérables and West Side Story. He also appeared in the TV soap Home and Away.

He has also been trained in gymnastics at the KICK Performance Group in Sydney. As well as competing in several eisteddfods at an early age, Egan has been able to use his gymnastics skills extensively in the thriller film Crush.

He moved to Los Angeles in 2003. In 2006, he appeared in the film adaptation of Christopher Paolini's novel Eragon. In 2007, he played a small role in Resident Evil: Extinction, the third movie in the Resident Evil series. In the summer of 2009, he shot the movie Letters to Juliet in Italy, with Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave and Gael García Bernal.