Amy Schneider wrote an extended listing of thank you after her historical “Jeopardy!” streak got here to a detailed Wednesday, together with a heartfelt message to her female friend, Genevieve Davis.
“And naturally, maximum of all, I need to thank Genevieve. After we began relationship, she knew I’d be on Jeopardy, however she actually didn’t know what that intended. She’d by no means watched the display, so even after I began successful, she didn’t actually know the way giant this used to be all going to get,” Schneider wrote.
She famous that her spouse “needed to publish with so much” all over her 40-game successful streak at the recreation display, together with spending time aside whilst capturing the display in Los Angeles and coping with undesirable media consideration.
“However via all that, she’s by no means hesitated in supporting me as I chase my dream,” Schneider persisted. “I’d by no means have made it via taping with out figuring out that I’d fly again house to peer her later on, and that, whilst she was hoping I gained, she would really feel the similar about me whether or not I gained 0 video games or 100.”
The couple reside in Oakland, California, and percentage a cat, Meep, who additionally were given a different shoutout Wednesday: “I need to thank Meep, for being so lovable and fuzzy; she used to be indisputably satisfied I misplaced as a result of she hated that I stored disappearing for a couple of days.”
Others at the listing integrated Schneider’s mother, her buddies, fanatics and the “Jeopardy!” group. She additionally congratulated Rhone Talsma, the Chicago librarian who gained Wednesday’s episode.
Schneider, an engineering supervisor, made historical past previous this month as the primary girl to surpass $1 million in winnings at the display. She gathered a complete of $1,382,800 in winnings.
Schneider will go back to the display within the fall for its Match of Champions. She used to be the primary brazenly trans individual to qualify for the match.
“Seeing trans other people anyplace in society that you simply haven’t observed them prior to is so precious for the children at the moment which can be seeing it,” Schneider advised San Francisco’s KGO-TV closing 12 months. “I’m so thankful that I’m giving some nerdy little trans child someplace the belief that that is one thing that they may do, too.”