Early Life
Street was born at home in Triumph, Idaho to Dee (a music teacher) and Roland "Stubby" (stonemason). Her older brother Roland Jr is one year older. Dee/Roland Sr decided to let Picabo choose her own name when she was old enough so for the first two years of her life, she was called "baby girl" or "little girl". At age 3 her mother took her to get a passport so the family could all go to Mexcio for Roland Sr's work, and she was forced to be named for her passport. It was then her parents named her after the nearby village of Picabo. She was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of Sun Valley, where she learned to ski and race. She attended Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and participated in its ski academy, Rowmark, for one year before returning to Sun Valley to race for the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. Before the academy, she was a member of the local Hailey Ski Team .
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