Krysten Anderson (born May 16th, 1997) is a monster truck driver out of Currituck, North Carolina. She is the daughter of Dennis Anderson and the sister of Adam, Ryan and Weston Anderson. Because of that, she has driven Grave Digger since 2017.
In 2017, Krysten competed on Triple Threat Series Central and finished 6th. She was invited to that year's Double Down Showdown. For the Grave Digger 35th anniversary encore, she drove the Grandma Grave Digger body.
In 2018, Krysten competed on Triple Threat Series West and finished 5th. She was again invited to that year's Double Down Showdown.
In 2019, Krysten competed on Triple Threat Series East and finished 4th. Later that year, she would be drafted onto Team Ice and debut Grave Digger Ice for the inaugural Monster Jam All Star Challenge.
In 2020, Krysten would compete on Triple Threat Series Central and would be placed 5th after the tour abruptly ended due to the pandemic. In August, she set the new Guinness World Record at the Monster Jam Breaking World Records special event for the highest leap in a monster truck at 33 ft, 9.6 in.
In 2021, she made her Stadium Tour debut in Houston, Texas on January 30th after her brothers Adam and Ryan drove Megalodon and Bakugan Dragonoid respectively on the tour. She got her first stadium freestyle win in Jacksonville, Florida in the same year. She finished 12th (dead last) on the tour.
In 2022, she would compete on Arena Championship Series Central and win the series, which would give her an automatic bid to compete at Monster Jam World Finals XXI in Orlando, Florida, as well as qualify for the high jump championship competition, although she would finish last in the latter competition. Also in that event, she would drive the Grave Digger 25th Anniversary fleet body for the Grave Digger 40th anniversary encore.
In 2023, she drove Grave Digger on Arena Championship Series West and finished in 3rd place. She would later be invited to the main field for Monster Jam World Finals XXII in Nashville, Tennessee and ran a special pink body on her truck. Bari Musawwir fills in for her in Rosemont. Krysten served as the Team Captain for Team Neon for the inaugural Monster Jam Superstar Challenge in Anaheim, California on November 11th, 2023. Her truck was used for the forward momentum backflip as one of the 2 trucks that ThunderROARus jumped over, which was driven by Tom Meents.
In 2024, she will compete on the East Arena Tour. On Friday night in Baltimore, she scored a 1.000 in the donut competition. This is the lowest score you can receive.
Monster Jam World Finals appearances[]
- 2017 - Grave Digger (DDS) (Grandma Grave Digger; 35th anniversary encore)
- 2018 - Grave Digger (DDS)
- 2019 - Grave Digger (DDS)
- 2022 - Grave Digger (main + high jump) (Grave Digger 25th Anniversary (fleet); 40th anniversary encore)
- 2023 - Grave Digger (pink)
Monster Jam All-Star Challenge appearances[]
- 2019 - Grave Digger Ice (Team Ice)
Trivia[]
- Krysten is the first and only female to compete as a driver of Grave Digger.
- Krysten is the third female Grave Digger driver, behind Debra Miceli (Madusa) and Heather Williams, but the first competing female Grave Digger driver.
- Krysten was the first Anderson sibling to start her career in Grave Digger. (Adam debuted in Vette King and Ryan debuted in Monster Mutt).
- Krysten is the only female driver to date to win a Monster Jam championship series.
- Unlike the other team Grave Digger drivers, Krysten is labeled as being "Blonde to the Bone" instead of "Bad".
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