Get ready, sports fans, for the most competitive season of “Dancing with the Stars” ever as the show fires up the scoreboard and welcomes 10 athletes to sparkle up their uniforms and lace up their dancing shoes as they ready themselves for their first dance on the ballroom floor, on the season premiere of “Dancing with the Stars: Athletes,” MONDAY, APRIL 30 (8:00-10:00 p.m. ET), on City. This season’s lineup of athletes includes three Olympic figure skaters, a former Los Angeles Lakers superstar, an Olympic gold medal-winning softball player, a Notre Dame women’s basketball national championship hero, an American luger, a gold medal-winning Olympic snowboarder, a former World Series-winning Major League Baseball player and an NFL cornerback.
The athletes with their professional dance partners heading to the ballroom this season are (in alphabetical order):
· Adam Rippon with Jenna Johnson
· Arike Ogunbowale with Gleb Savchenko
· Chris Mazdzer with Witney Carson
· Jamie Anderson with Artem Chigvintsev
· Jennie Finch Daigle with Keo Motsepe
· Johnny Damon with Emma Slater
· Josh Norman with Sharna Burgess
· Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Lindsay Arnold
· Mirai Nagasu with Alan Bersten
· Tonya Harding with Sasha Farber
