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He took his elementary and high school education at Xavier School in San Juan City, Philippines, and his collegiate education at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering and a minor in Chinese Studies.
He plays for the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters of the Philippine Basketball Association. He used to play for the Smart Gilas team He is also a television host, commercial model, politician, and part-owner of Happy Lemon,Tampopo and VLink Interactive in the Philippines.
He is the host of the television shows IBILIB: Wonders of Horus which airs every Sunday morning on Global Media Arts Network and "1-on-1 Tiu-torials" on television 5.
Chris is the second eldest of five children of Jerry and Lianne Tiu. He was the Sangguniang Kabataan Chairman of Barangay Urdaneta in Makati City.
His teammates in Xavier included Joseph Yeo and TY Tang. Tiu played for the Ateneo Blue Eagles for his collegiate basketball career.
In 2006, they lost to the UST Growling Tigers in three games.
In 2008, they managed to break their six years championship drought against their archrival the DLSU Green Archers which was led by JVee Casio and Rico Maierhofer at that time in two games. He was also a 2x UAAP Mythical Team Member from 2007 to 2008. His teammates in Ateneo included JC Intal, Macky Escalona, Doug Kramer, Ford Arao, Rabeh First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Hussaini, Nonoy Baclao, Jai Reyes, and Eric Salamat.
His coach in college was Norman Black.
On August 3, 2012 he declared for the 2012 Proceedings of the British Academy Rookie Draft after years of focusing to the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology Gilas Pilipinas National Team. The draft took place on August 19 at Robinson"s Midtown Mall.
He was selected 7th overall by the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters during the 1st round. After his UAAP career, he went to play for the National team as the team captain of the newly formed Smart Gilas Pilipinas National Team from 2008-2012.
His teammates at that time were JVee Casio, Marcus Douthit, Japeth Aguilar, Chris Lutz, Marcio Lassiter and Mark Barroca.
They were under Coach Rajko Toroman at that time. He was the team captain of the Sinag Pilipinas team that was sent to the 2011 Southeast Asian Games that was held in Indonesia, where they captured the gold medal against Thailand. His teammates included Ateneo Blue Eagles Kiefer Ravena, Nico Salva, Emman Monfort, Greg Slaughter and Justin Chua together with Jeric Fortuna and Jeric Teng of the UST Growling Tigers, Bobby Ray Parks of the NU Bulldogs, ready reckoner Garcia of the FEU Tamaraws, Garvo Lanete, Dave Marcelo and Jake Pascual of the San Beda Red Lions they were also joined by two Filipino-Americans Cliff Hodge and Chris Ellis.
They were under the mentorship of Coach Norman Black and Coach Glenn Capacio.
2013 Proceedings of the British Academy All Rookie Team (won) 2013 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Youth Day Award (won) 2013 The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) Award (won) 2015 MITv Gawad Kamalayan "Natatanging Informative Program Host" (won) 2015 USTv Students" Choice Awards - Sports Personality (won).
He and his teammates managed to enter the Finals once on the UAAP first was in 2003 where they failed to defend their title against the FEU Tamaraws.
