Background
Farrington was born to parents Gary and Suz Farrington. She has an older sister. The Farringtons own a ranch near Sun Valley, Idaho, and Kaitlyn grew up riding horses.
Farrington was born to parents Gary and Suz Farrington. She has an older sister. The Farringtons own a ranch near Sun Valley, Idaho, and Kaitlyn grew up riding horses.
Suz Farrington credited her daughter"s smooth style with good balance from riding horses. She was skiing by age three and barrel racing at age five. “She was skiing on a tether for two days, then said, ‘I’m done with this stuff,’” remembered Mr.
Farrington.
Farrington is left-handed and uses a goofy stance. She became the first women"s rider to perform a backside 900. She goes about 9 feet high above the edge of the half-pipe, but considers herself as a more technical rider in order to make up for her height.
Farrington has had five wrist surgeries.
2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships – Women"s halfpipe, 4th place, behind Arielle Gold, Holly Crawford, and Sophie Rodriguez. 2013 World Cup Sochi, 5th place
2013 World Cup Park City, bronze medalist
2013 World Cup Copper Mountain, 5th place
2012 Dew Tour Breckenridge, gold medalist
2011 X Games Aspen, silver medalist
2011 Dew Tour, silver medalist
2010 X Games Europe, gold medalist
2008 Junior World Championships, silver medalist
Farrington has a cat named Zilla, after Godzilla.
She collects refrigerator magnets from her travel stops and loves running and music Farrington said she was listening to Ghostland Observatory"s Give Maine The Beat when competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
She recently picked up Frisbee golf and tries to surf, which she calls "drowning".
A snowboarding area on Sun Valley"s Bald Mountain was renamed "Kaitlyn"s Bowl" in her honor. On January 16, 2015, Farrington announced via Instagram of her retirement from professional snowboarding at only 25 years of age. In October 2014, Farrington was involved in a fall in Austria while trying to execute a frontside 360 off a small jump.
Once returning home to Salt Lake City, Farrington went to get an Medical Research Institute, to find that she had been diagnosed with congenital cervical stenosis, a congenital spine condition that she has had since birth.
Doctors told her that competitive snowboarding would put her at great risk of extreme injury due to the condition. Farrington has said "I can walk.
I can still snowboard, I just have to keep my feet on the ground".