Adam Snow

Adam Snow
Residence Aiken, South Carolina
Education Yale University
Occupation Polo player
Spouse(s) Shelley (Onderdonk) Snow
Children 2 sons
Parent(s) Crocker Snow, Jr.
Relatives Adam Winthrop (godfather)

Adam Snow is an American ten-goal polo player.

Early life

Adam 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]

Polo

He started his polo career by working on Hector 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 life

He married Shelley (Onderdonk) Snow, an equine vetenarian, in 1989.[1][2] They have two sons.[1] They reside in Aiken, South Carolina.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Gwen Rizzo, Dancing the Dance: Adam Snow joins the elite corps of 10-goal players, making it an even dozen., Polo Players' Edition
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Adam Snow to Hall of Fame, Aiken Horse News: A Supplement to The Aiken Horse Newspaper, February 10, 2014
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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, 10-29-2013