JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Jaelin Kauf's world champion, mogul-skiing parents don't take much credit for their daughter's success in the sport they once dominated. Those kudos go to the Olympian's older brother.
"If it weren't for Skyler, she wouldn't be where she's at now," said Scott Kauf, Jaelin's father. "He's been a great big brother. She just aspired to follow him around, to chase him around and do what he was doing."
The 21-year-old Jaelin, of the small northwest Wyoming community of Alta, spent much of her childhood on the slopes of Grand Targhee following Skyler, 22, wherever he went.