Farming Background Can Help Athletes

Amid all the Olympic games “hype and circumstance”, circumstances that find many Olympic hopefuls caught in awkward and nefarious situations, it’s nice to read about an Olympic contender that is not posing in racy photographs, having a temper tantrum on the course, or just behaving badly in general. Enter Kaitlyn Farrington, Olympic gold medalist who competed in women’s half pipe snowboarding. Farrington’s story is the type of Olympic story we should be hearing about. She grew up on a cattle ranch in Sun Valley, Idaho. Known to be upbeat and optimistic, Farrington danced as she stood in the leader’s box waiting to hear how she did. She credits her success in the Olympic games and life in general to her parents, Gary and Suz, and the fact that she was raised to “cowgirl up”. In other words, you do what you have to do to get the job done. Farrington isn’t the only Olympic athlete with a farming or ranching background. And most of them say that farming and being an athlete go hand in hand, both have you going up against odds you cant’ control, but you still go out and do what you have to do.