Shaun White’s Dad Was Almost a Professional Surfer—Meet His Family of Athletes
stylecaster.comIf you asked him, Shaun White’s parents—his mother Cathy White and his father Roger White—are reason he’s a five-time Olympian today.
Shaun, who was raised in San Diego, California, is the youngest of three kids. His older brother, Jesse White, who is seven years older than him, taught him how to snowboard. “Jesse taught me all the grabs and spins,” he told the San Diego Union Tribune in 2001. “He told me to do stuff, and I’d go try it and maybe land it.” His older sister, Kari White, who is two years older than him, is also a snowboarder.
Though he trained with his siblings when he was younger, Shaun credits his parents for his success. In an Instagram post in January 2022, Shaun revealed the emotional words his mom told him after he won his first Olympic gold medal at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics. “In honor of the 2022 Winter Olympics being a couple of weeks away, I decided to take a look back over the years.
Nothing compares to my first Olympics!” Shaun captioned an Instagram video of him competing. “I was 19 and had no idea my whole world was about to change.
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