It is testament to the tenacity and drive of Sarah Palin that she managed to lead her high school basketball team to victory in a small-school basketball championship in 1982. Sarah hit a critical free throw in the last seconds of the game. She did all this whilst suffering from a painful stress fracture in her ankle.

Born in 1964, Sarah Palin is a pretty hockey mom with 5 beautiful children; her eldest boy is serving in Iraq. She is a self confessed bible believing Christian, and this helped to polarize opinion about her across the US Sandpoint, Idaho was the place of Sarah Palin’s birth, but her family moved out to Alaska while she was still very young. Sarah returned to Idaho to complete her University education, graduating with a degree in communications-journalism in 1987.

Sarah Palin’s father used to take her moose hunting before she went to school and the family generally loved the outdoors. Competing together in long distance runs was not an uncommon phenomenon. But Sarah Palin is no plain tom boy: she won the Miss Wasilla pageant and came third in the Miss Alaska pageant. This latter near-victory ensured that she had a college scholarship.