Shaun White: The Rising Star of Extreme Sports

Shaun White has taken both the snowboarding and skateboarding world by storm, and he's only seventeen years old. He was too young to legally drive the car he won at the Toyota Big Air and the truck that came with the Vans Triple Crown overall title in 2002. But Shaun's peers no longer consider him a kid phenomenon, but as the man pushing the future of snowboarding and skateboarding alike.
Shaun was born in San Diego, California, on September 9, 1986. He first picked up a snowboard when he was six, after seeing his older brother Jesse boarding. …