Education
Deerfield Academy.
Deerfield Academy.
This was the first and so far only time a transplantee had competed in the Olympics, either winter or summer. He is an alumnus of Deerfield Academy. In 2004, Klug released a book called To the Edge and Back: My Story from Organ Transplant Survivor to Olympic Snowboarder.
He is an active supporter of organ donation and recently founded the Chris Klug Foundation and Donor Dudes to spread awareness of the need for organ donors.