| 词条 | Adam Snow |
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| name = Adam Snow | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = Aiken, South Carolina | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education =Yale University | employer = | occupation = Polo player | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = Shelley (Onderdonk) Snow | children = 2 sons | parents = Crocker Snow, Jr. | relatives = Adam Winthrop (godfather) | box_width = }} Adam Snow is an American ten-goal polo player. Early lifeAdam Snow grew up in Hamilton, near Boston, Massachusetts.[1] His father, Crocker Snow, Jr., played polo, as did his paternal grandfather.[2] His father remarried a Swedish woman.[1] They lived in Japan when he was a child.[1] His godfather was Adam Winthrop, after whom the Adam Winthrop Polo Field in Aiken, South Carolina is named.[2] He spent his summers playing polo at the Myopia Polo Club in South Hamilton and the Saratoga Polo Club in Saratoga Springs, New York as a teenager.[1] He also taught polo clinics at Myopia.[1][2] He took a gap year to play hockey professionally in Sweden, followed by lacrosse in England.[1] He graduated from Yale University, where he played varsity hockey and lacrosse, even beating the Harvard University team.[1] PoloHe started his polo career by working on Héctor Barrantes's ranch in Argentina.[1][2] He then played at the Greenwich Polo Club near Greenwich, Connecticut.[1] Shortly after, he played for polo patron Brook Johnston on the "polo circuit" in England, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Argentina.[1] He became a ten-goal polo player in 2002.[3] He won the Westchester Cup alongside John Gobin, Owen Rinehart and Robert E. Walton at the Guards Polo Club in 1992.[3][4] A decade later, in 2002, he won the U.S. Open Polo Championship at the Royal Palm Polo Club in Boca Raton, Florida on the Coca-Cola Polo Team alongside Gillian Johnston, Miguel Novillo Astrada and Tommy Biddle.[5] He has also won the Monty Waterbury Cup.[3] He has owned between forty to twenty horses.[1] His polo pony, a mare called Pumbaa, was the recipient of the Willis L. Hartman Trophy in 2002.[6] He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in Lake Worth, Florida in 2013.[2][7] Personal lifeHe married Shelley (Onderdonk) Snow, an equine veterinarian, in 1989.[1][2] They have three sons.[1] They reside in Aiken, South Carolina.[1][2] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Gwen Rizzo, Dancing the Dance: Adam Snow joins the elite corps of 10-goal players, making it an even dozen., Polo Players' Edition {{DEFAULTSORT:Snow, Adam}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Adam Snow to Hall of Fame, Aiken Horse News: A Supplement to The Aiken Horse Newspaper, February 10, 2014 3. ^1 2 Horace A. Laffaye, The Polo Encyclopedia, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2004, p. 350 4. ^Horace A. Laffaye, Polo in Britain: A History, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 212, p. 301 5. ^Horace A. Laffaye, Polo in the United States: A History, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2011, p. 223 6. ^Horace A. Laffaye, The Polo Encyclopedia, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2004, p. 161 7. ^Brenda Lynn, Museum of Polo & Hall of Fame Announces Inductees for 25th Anniversary {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219210056/http://www.polomuseum.com/news/2013_news/HoF_2014_inductees.pdf |date=February 19, 2015 }}, 10-29-2013 6 : Living people|People from Hamilton, Massachusetts|People from Aiken, South Carolina|Yale University alumni|American polo players|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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