the contestants ‘Amazing Race’

September 10, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

A look at the 24 contestants competing in the 15th season of CBS’ “The Amazing Race.”

Team 1: Herbert “Flight Time” Lang, 32, Harlem Globetrotter, and Nathaniel “The Big Easy” Lofton, 29, Harlem Globetrotter; relationship, teammates

Team 2: Lance Layne, 41, lawyer, and Keri Morrione, 33, finance manager; relationship, engaged

Team 3: Maria Ho, 26, poker player, and Tiffany Michelle, 25, poker player; relationship, poker players

Team 4: Eric Paskel, 41, yoga studio owner and instructor, and Lisa Paskel, 43, yoga studio owner and instructor; relationship, married yoga teachers

Team 5: Gary Tomljenovich, 47, construction manager and mortgage banker, and Matt Tomljenovich, 22, student, relationship, father and son

Team 6: Zev Glassenberg, 26, unemployed, and Justin Kanew, 30, vice president of development, National Lampoon; relationship, friends

Team 7: Garrett Paul, 28, day trader, an d Jessica Stout, 27, freelance editor; relationship, dating on and off

Team 8: Marcy Maloy, 60, advertising photographer, and Ronald Shalita, 59, stock trader and math tutor; relationship, dating

Team 9: Mika Combs, 22, aspiring singer, and Canaan Smith, 26, professional songwriter; relationship, newly dating

Team 10: Meghan Rickey, 23, account executive, and Cheyne Whitney, 23, student, relationship, dating

Team 11: Ericka Dunlap, 27, entertainer (former Miss America), and Brian Kleinschmidt, 27. marketing tour manager; relationship, mariied

Team 12: Daniel McMillen, 21, student, and Samuel McMillen, 23, student; relationship, brothers