Claire Norwood

Captain of Team S of USA48 .

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She learned how to walk at 9 months old.
She was a child prodigy. She learned the violin, piano, and the guitar at age 3 and performed in the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from age 7 until 13.
She taught herself parallel bar gymnastics and classical ballet. She tried out for the international olympics at age 10 but was disqualified due to age.
She was captain of her junior high swim team.
She won the Cascadia Region Youth's Spelling Bee at age 11.
She skipped grades 1, 3, 4, 9, and 11. She was on the honor roll and graduated high school at age 13 and graduated with a 4.2 GPA.
She studied abroad at the University of Oxford and graduated with a 4.8 GPA at 16 years old with a double major in Neuroscience and Sociology.
She has her master's degree in Biological Psychology. She wrote her dissertation on "Finding the Human Consciousness." at 17 years old.
She is fluent in Spanish, Arabic, French, Japanese, Italian, Mandarin, and Russian. She also knows sign language in 10 countries.
She traveled abroad to Osaka, Japan for an internship and that is when she first heard about NMB48.
She became best friends with Yamada Nana during her internship in for her PhD in the Psychology of Eastern Media at the Yes-Namba building in and entered the audition for USA48 as soon as it was announced.
Although she auditioned to supplement her internship, she says she has found her place in life as an idol and plans to stay a member of USA48.
She auditioned with the song "Zetsumetsu Kurokami Shoujo" by NMB48.