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Jaime Tribo

Jaime Tribo is a dietitian and university instructor who entered The Amazing Race season 39 with her brother, civil engineer Cody Langlois.

Biography

Jaime Tribo is a dietitian from Tinley Park, Illinois, and a contestant on The Amazing Race season 39. She races with her brother, Cody Langlois.

Tribo balances a nutrition career and university teaching with a race partnership that grew out of years of adventures with her brother.

Known for

The Amazing Race season 39

Tribo balances a nutrition career and university teaching with a race partnership that grew out of years of adventures with her brother.[1]

Career highlights

  1. Career 1

    Nutrition education

    Tribo graduated from Western Illinois University in 2015 with a degree in Family and Consumer Sciences. In the university's interview about her casting, she also described completing a master's degree in nutrition.[4]

  2. Career 2

    Dietitian and instructor

    She works as a telehealth dietitian and teaches nutrition at the University of Illinois Chicago. The university lists her as an adjunct instructor in its Kinesiology and Nutrition directory.[5][6]

  3. Career 3

    A family suggestion

    Their mother encouraged Tribo and Langlois to apply for her favorite show. Tribo told WIU that their entry had been years in the making and that the competition was filmed the previous fall.[4]

  4. Career 4

    Training for the race

    Tribo prepared with swimming, strength work, weighted stair climbing and sled pushes. She also practiced carrying a loaded backpack, anticipating the physical demands of moving between unfamiliar challenges.[5]

  5. Career 5

    An established travel partnership

    Before television, the siblings had surfed together in California and climbed Half Dome and Angels Landing. Tribo described those trips as experiences that helped them prepare to compete together.[5]