American snowboarder Hannah Teter won a silver medal in the women's halfpipe event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Hannah has been snowboarding since she was nine; but she has been writing a personal diary since she was only five! This has given her something of a philosophical outlook on life. Talking to SI Teter said: "I'm giving all my contest winnings this year to Haiti, and then I have the [organic] maple syrup, Hannah's Gold, and everything from that goes to a village [Kirindon] in Kenya......A lot of people are stingy with their money, or put it into cars or houses or material things that don't matter."
Hannah is realistic about her charity work saying that she can afford to do it because of her income from endorsement contracts. "I've been blessed to have enough to buy organic and have a house in Tahoe. I know I'm going to be able to eat. This way, I can work it so that anything extra, I can give to charity."
Hannah Teter in the "Save the Seals" campaign for PETA. "When I saw that PETA was involved in saving the seals, I just was like, 'YEAH!' That's something I want to be a part of because it's such a huge massacre," she said during the photo shoot. Hannah's concern for baby seals extends to a larger love for nature. She told People, "Mom has a huge garden and fruit trees, and I love it there. When you surround yourself with nature, it's really powerful. Everything makes a difference."
Hannah Teter calls herself a healthy, organic vegetarian, and says she's grossed out by meaty junk food. "There's also a McDonald's in the athlete's village. That's so gross. When I saw that, I was like, 'I've gotta leave, I can't stay here'." She told People that eating organic vegetarian food makes her "feel stronger mentally and physically, and springier." And on what kind of food she eats, Hannah told SI: "There are so many different ways to get protein as a vegetarian, like Warrior Protein, which is all these different raw sprouted grains — it's higher protein than meat and better for you."
Hannah Teter has been doing Yoga for years, and Tai Chi. In 2004 she fractured several bones in an accident at a World Cup event in Japan; Teter credits Yoga and organic food for her recovery. Hannah posed for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition (above photo) and while admitting that some of the pics were risque, made it clear that they were not sexual at all. "I was really amped up to do that because I don't believe in the criminalization of bodies and women having to be ashamed of their bodies," Teter told Reuters. "That's just so wrong."
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