Jessica & John

Jessica Hoel and John Erck are a Dating Couple on the 22nd season of The Amazing Race, and the second all-star season of The Amazing Race.

Jessica

 * Age: 26 (Season 22), 27 (All-Stars)
 * Current Residence: Huntington Beach, CA
 * Connection to your teammate: Dating
 * Current occupation: Account Manager
 * Describe what you do: I am an account manager for Cargills health and nutrition business. I represent a variety of specialty sweeteners and functional ingredients.
 * Three words to describe you: Smart, silly and practical.
 * Favorite hobbies: Running, surfing and traveling.
 * What is the accomplishment you are most proud of? Finishing the Boston Marathon twice!
 * What famous person reminds you of yourself? Jessica Biel. She's super athletic, but seems girly and sweet.
 * What famous person reminds you of your teammate? Macklemore.
 * What scares you most about traveling? Not much. I love it! Maybe missing a flight, but I usually get lucky.
 * What excites you most about traveling? I absolutely love to travel! I lived in Mexico and Spain to really learn and understand other cultures. I love trying new food, seeing new sights and meeting different people and learning new languages.
 * Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on The Race together: John tells a lot of stories (multiple times) and speaks very slowly. I sometimes just talk over him or make him get to the point!
 * Pet peeve about your teammate: He’s always hungry! He will eat all of the oatmeal in one sitting, so I have to hide it. If he’s hungry, it’s not good!
 * What country and place would you most like to visit and why? Thailand, because of the people! It’s called the land of smiles. Also, the local food, the beaches! I’ve heard too many great things!
 * What do you hope to accomplish by running The Race (other than winning one million bucks)? I can't wait to see the world with my best friend!

John

 * Age: 27 (Season 22), 28 (All-Stars)
 * Current Residence: Huntington Beach, CA
 * Connection to your teammate: Dating
 * Current occupation: Entrepreneur/Computer programmer
 * Describe what you do: I run a web development and design company called Above Market. We code what our clients want.
 * Three words to describe you: Coffee, code and surf.
 * Favorite hobbies: Coding (PHP and Objective-C), drinking coffee and surfing 12th Street or the pier in Huntington Beach.
 * What is the accomplishment you are most proud of? Having the guts to quit my well-paid corporate IT job to pursue a life of hacking and entrepreneurship.
 * What famous person reminds you of yourself? Macklemore.
 * What famous person reminds you of your teammate? Angelina Jolie.
 * What scares you most about traveling? Getting locked up abroad.
 * What excites you most about traveling? Seeing new things.
 * Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on The Race together: Jessica’s mumbling and me not being able to understand what she’s saying!
 * Pet peeve about your teammate: Sometimes Jess tunes me out when I’m telling an awesome story.
 * What country and place would you most like to visit and why? Australia, to go surfing, feed white sharks and scuba dive the great barrier reef.
 * What do you hope to accomplish by running The Race (other than winning one million bucks)? Challenge and adventure.

Season 22

 * Leg 1: 1st
 * Leg 2: 3rd
 * Leg 3: 2nd
 * Leg 4: 9th (Eliminated)

All-Stars (2014)

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 * Leg 2: 8thJessica_John_Eliminated.png
 * Leg 3: 7th
 * Leg 4: 5th
 * Leg 5: 5th
 * Leg 6: 3rd
 * Leg 7: 7th (Eliminated)

Season 22

 * Eliminated because they struggled on both detours and John got lost trying to find the roadblock and struggled on the roadblock trying to find the correct label on the surf board, not to mention his refusal to use the Express Pass.

All-Stars (2014)

 * John getting help from Meghan at the leg 2 Roadblock.
 * In the leg 4 Roadblock, Jessica's feet were blistered from jumping but she still finished the task.
 * Eliminated after losing time, despite leaving the Detour first, when their taxi took them to the wrong place, then narrowly losing to Flight Time & Big Easy in a foot race

Franchise

 * First team to win two Express Passes.
 * First team to give one Express Pass to another team (Dave & Connor).
 * First team to be eliminated without using their Express Pass.
 * Highest average placing team who came in 9th, 3.75 (tied with Liran & Ronit).
 * Highest average placing male/female team who came in 9th, 3.75 (tied with Liran & Ronit).
 * Lowest finish in their previous season for a team rejoin an all-star season, 9th place (tied with Zev & Justin).

American

 * Youngest male/female team to finish in 9th place, 26.5

All-Stars (2014)

 * First team to have an improved finish from previous season.
 * First team in love to be eliminated.