Parents are Mike and Kathy Schweizer...she has a younger brother, Ryan, and younger sister, Kelsey...She dabbled in many sports growing up from softball to soccer to basketball...with her Mom, Dad, and Grandpa all having been collegiate runners, she seemed destined to eventually settle on Track...Off the track Karissa sticks to the quiet, disciplined life of a professional runner...She enjoys baking, drawing, reading, and Netflix...She says the topic she’d feel most confident giving a TED Talk on is “all the different foods you can put Nutella on or in.”