James Lovett
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James "Jaime" Lovett is a professional American
surfer, skimboarder and wakeboarder. His forays into board sports began with surfing when he was 10 years old. Lovett went professional at age 14 which led him to compete and receive awards in many events. Lovett won his first event in 2004 by coming first in the Centurion World Wake Surfing Championships.
In 2007, Lovett was among the four finalists in the Flow Tour National Championships with Jeff Ranta,Tyler McIntyre and Greg Lazarus. He defeated them to become the Flow Tour Expert Standup Champion. The following year he won the event Oktoberfest!
Born in Newport Beach, California
, Lovett's American parents raised him in Mexico's Cabo San Lucas
since he was 2 months old. As a result, Lovett is bilingual in Spanish
and English
.
United States
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surfer, skimboarder and wakeboarder. His forays into board sports began with surfing when he was 10 years old. Lovett went professional at age 14 which led him to compete and receive awards in many events. Lovett won his first event in 2004 by coming first in the Centurion World Wake Surfing Championships.
In 2007, Lovett was among the four finalists in the Flow Tour National Championships with Jeff Ranta,Tyler McIntyre and Greg Lazarus. He defeated them to become the Flow Tour Expert Standup Champion. The following year he won the event Oktoberfest!
Born in Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, south of downtown Santa Ana. The population was 85,186 at the 2010 census.The city's median family income and property values consistently place high in national rankings...
, Lovett's American parents raised him in Mexico's Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas , commonly called Cabo, is a city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the municipality of Los Cabos in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. As of the 2010 census, the population was 68,463 people...
since he was 2 months old. As a result, Lovett is bilingual in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
.