Joe & Heidi

Joe & Heidi
Team Profile
Hometown:	El Segundo, California
Relation:	Married
Occupation:	Software sales executive (Joe) Homemaker (Heidi)
Legs Competed:	5
Placement:	8th

Joe Wang and Heidi Wang are a Married team on the 16th season of The Amazing Race.

Profile

Retrieved from CBS.com

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!

The Amazing Race 16

Race History

Joe & Heidi's Race History
Episode	Leg	Destination(s)	Detour Choice (underlined)	Roadblock Performer	Placement	Notes
1	1	United States → Chile	No Detour	Joe	5 of 11
2	2	Chile	Llama Adoration / Condor Consternation	Heidi	2 of 10
3	3	Chile → Argentina	Horse Sense / Horse Power	Heidi	4 of 9
4	4	Argentina → Germany	Soccer / Sauerkraut	Joe	3 of 8
5	5	Germany → France	In the Trenches / Under Fire	No Roadblock	8 of 8⊃	[1]
				Average	4.40
Legend:      The team finished in first place      The team finished in last place and was eliminated from the race      The team finished in last place in a non-elimination leg      The team that won The Amazing Race      The team that crossed the Finish Line second      The team that crossed the Finish Line third ⊂ The team used the U-Turn ⊃ Recipient of the U-Turn

Notes:
1: Joe and Heidi failed to complete the second Detour task (In the Trenches) that they had to do as a result of being U-Turned. After all of the other teams had already checked in at the Pit Stop, Phil came out to their location and eliminated them.

Post-Race

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Trivia

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External links

Interviews

• Joyce Eng at TV Guide Online (03/15/2010): "Morse Code Challenge was an impossible task"
• Gina Scarpa at Reality Wanted (03/15/2010): "The Amazing Race 16: Exclusive Interview with Joe and Heidi Wang"
• Digital Spy (03/15/2010): "Joe and Heidi chat to Digital Spy about their exit."
• Carrie Bell at People.com (03/16/2010): "Joe and Heidi on Facing U-Turn"
• Reality TV World (03/16/2010): "Exclusive: Joe Wang and Heidi Wang talk about The Amazing Race"
• Henrik Batallones at BuddyTV (03/17/2010): "Exclusive Interview: Joe and Heidi from The Amazing Race 16"
• Hollywood Life (03/22/2010): "Catch Up With Joe And Heidi!"

Social Media Profiles

• Joe's Facebook: /joe.wang.562114

• Heidi's Facebook: /heidi.leeserwang

References

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