Carrie Swidecki

Carrie Swidecki is a teacher from Bakersfield who holds various dance game world records.[1][2]

In 2010 Swidecki broke the Guinness World Record for the "longest marathon on a dance or rhythm game", playing Dance Dance Revolution for more than fifteen hours.[3] In 2011 she again broke the Guinness World Record for the "longest marathon on a dance or rhythm game" with Dance Dance Revolution, playing for 16 hours and nine minutes.[1][3] She then broke that record and set a new one in 2012, playing Dance Dance Revolution X2 for almost 22 hours.[1]

Also in 2012, she set the Guinness World Records for the “longest marathon on a motion sensing dance game” and the “longest marathon on a dance/rhythm game” playing Dance Central 2 with a Kinect motion sensor for 24 hours.[1][4]

On June 15–17, 2013 she set two Guinness World Records at the same time (the Longest Marathon on a Motion-Sensing Dance Game and the Longest Marathon on a Dance/Rhythm Game) by playing Just Dance for 49 hours 3 minutes 22 seconds, thus becoming the only person in the world to hold a world record for marathon play on all three major dance games: Just Dance, Dance Central, and Dance Dance Revolution.[4][5]

She was formerly obese and has lost 75 pounds through exergaming.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-08-10. Retrieved 2013-07-14.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2013-07-14.
  3. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2013-07-14.
  4. 1 2 http://www.carrieswidecki.com/
  5. 1 2 http://www.patrickscottpatterson.com/WomenCarrie
  6. ↑ http://www.kget.com/mostpopular/story/Local-woman-dances-her-way-into-history/MhEhBkO-e0G6vno1MVIiOA.cspx
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