Joe & Heidi

Joe Wang and Heidi Wang are a Married team on the 16th season of The Amazing Race. They participated in the first five legs and were the 4th team eliminated.

Joe

 * Age: 42
 * Hometown: El Segundo, California
 * Connection to your Teammate: Married
 * Current Occupation: Software Sales Executive
 * Favorite Hobbies: Coaching youth sports, poker and golf
 * Achievements: My biggest achievement is my family.
 * Lifelong to do List: Travel around the world.
 * If I could switch places with someone: My son Jameson who has unlimited potential.
 * Role Model/Hero: My parents. They immigrated here to USA to provide a better life for me.
 * What are you passionate about? Raising my kids to be the best they can be.
 * What would you do if you won the million dollars? Pay for my kids' college education.
 * People would be surprised to learn: I was born in Taiwan and speak fluent Mandarin Chinese
 * Favorite place you have ever visited: Fiji
 * Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on the Race together: Getting a task that we both can’t do and being away from our kids for an extended period of time.
 * What do you hope to accomplish by running the Race (other then winning one million bucks)? Create a closer bond with Heidi
 * Pet peeve about your teammate: She can’t multi-task.

Heidi

 * Age: 37
 * Hometown: El Segundo, California
 * Connection to your Teammate: Wife
 * Current Occupation: Homemaker
 * Favorite Hobbies: Traveling, gourmet cooking, shopping, golfing and reading
 * Achievements: Giving birth to my two beautiful and intelligent kids, having a successful finance career prior to choosing to stay home to raise my children.
 * Lifelong to do List: Run a marathon, improve my golf game and to never stop learning new things
 * If I could switch places with someone: It would have to be with my daughter, Herason. The opportunities and potential for a young girl today are endless.
 * Role Model/Hero: My parents, Richard and Yohko Leeser. They sacrificed everything for their children to give them a better life. I have the utmost respect and admiration for both of them.
 * What are you passionate about? My family. There are no words for the love and devotion I have for my husband and children.
 * What would you do if you won the million dollars? Invest it towards my children's college education fund
 * People would be surprised to learn: In high school, I was voted Senior Class President, Most Likely to Succeed, Most Likely to win a Nobel Peace Prize and Most Likely to Total Their Car
 * Favorite place you have ever visited: My home. Although I’ve traveled extensively and visited many wonderful places, there really is "no place like home."
 * Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on the Race together: Being away from our children for so long and not being able to eat sushi.
 * What do you hope to accomplish by running the Race (other then winning one million bucks)? Spending quality one-on-one time with my husband.  We both could use some extra, uninterrupted time and attention from the other.  Additionally, I plan to re-enter the professional workplace soon and I hope this experience makes me a better job candidate.
 * Pet peeve about your teammate: Joe is a very intense and short tempered individual who thinks he’s right all the time!

Season 16

 * Leg 1: 5th
 * Leg 2: 2nd
 * Leg 3: 4th
 * Leg 4: 3rd
 * Leg 5: 8th (Eliminated)

Memorable Moments

 * Eliminated when they got U-Turned by Louie & Michael making them struggle with the morse code at the other Detour.

Franchise

 * Highest average placing team who came in 8th without winning any leg, 4.4
 * Highest average placing team who were the 4th team to be eliminated without winning any leg, 4.4