Background
Charlene Rink, (née Virginia Charlene Thompson) was born on February 11, 1972 in Garden Grove, California.
Charlene Rink, (née Virginia Charlene Thompson) was born on February 11, 1972 in Garden Grove, California.
Rink attended Arizona Western College on a cheerleading scholarship. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in foods and nutrition from San Diego State University, and has earned vocational certifications as an emergency medical technician, fitness Instructor, and aerobics instructor.
She has one daughter, Zara Olivia Rink, born September 20, 2004. On September 24, 2010, Jeffrey Marr honored Rink for her dedication to the health and wellness of others by setting honorary bookplates on six biomedicine volumes at the University of California, Los Angeles Library. Rink competed in both fitness and bodybuilding across multiple sanctions in the industry.
She entered her first fitness competition at the Wally Boyko Productions (NFSB) 1994 Mississippi
Fitness San Diego competition and placed first. Rink competed successfully as a submission style wrestler for several female wrestling video organisations including Premier and Utopia.
1994
1994 NFSB Mississippi Fitness San Diego, 1st
1994 NFSB Mississippi
Fitness Arizona, 2nd
1994 NFSB Mississippi
Fitness Inland Empire, 1st
1994 NFSB Mississippi Fitness Western, 1st
1995
1995 NFSB Mississippi Fitness Western, 2nd
1995 Fitness America Pageant ESPN2 Series, 2nd
1996
1996 Non-Player Character Paradise Cup, 1st
1996 Fitness Universe Mississippi
Internationally Fit, 1st
1996 Fitness America Pageant National Championships, 9th
1997
1997 Non-Player Character Fitness United States of America, 6th
1997 Non-Player Character Fitness West Coast Jubilee, 2nd
1997 Non-Player Character Fitness Nationals, 15th
1998
1998 Non-Player Character Fitness California, 1st
1998 Non-Player Character Fitness United States of America, 3rd
1999
1999 Non-Player Character Fitness United States of America, 1st
2000
2000 IFBB Atlantic City Pro, 12th
"Fun and Sun" Muscle Magazine International 2000, November, issue 221, pg.
156
"Fitness Perspective" NutriMag 2000, issue 6, pg. 30
"Hot Shots" Iron Manitoba Magazine 2000, October pg.
60–62
"Triple Triumph" Oxygen Women"s Fitness Magazine 2000, March/April pg. 174
"Westside Story" Iron Manitoba Magazine 1999, December pg.
175-184, 200
"Mission Fitness" Indiana Magazine, March 1995
Modeling background
Alpha Sport BodyCraft software & supplement, 1995-1996
SunSkinz swimwear, San Diego, California, August–December 1995
Glyn Jones Productions digital design & photography, 1994-1995.
In 1999, she won first place in the Fitness tall class at the National Physique Committee Fitness United States of America Championships. She then competed in the Fitness Universe sanction to achieve the title of Mississippi Internationally Fit. In 1999, Rink won the Fitness tall class at the National Physique Committee (Non-Player Character) Fitness United States of America Championships and earned the status of International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (IFBB) Professional.
Rink is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the Institute of Food Technologists. In 1996 Rink competed in her first competitive bodybuilding competition, taking the woman"s open bodybuilding at the National Physique Committee (Non-Player Character) Paradise Cup and becoming a permanent member of the Paradise Cup Hall of Fame.
