Another American athlete with Filipino roots is 17-year-old Hailey Langland, who will compete in the women's snowboarding big air event, Halfpipe, and Slopestyle events at Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The daughter of a Fil-Am mother and an American father, Langland is competing in the Winter Games for the first time. She has previously represented the US in the Youth Olympics and she has also competed in the X Games in 2016 and 2017.

The Philippines will, of course, be represented by Michael Martinez in men's figure skating, and Asa Miller in the men's alpine skiing.

Learn more about her below:
1. Hailey’s from Southern California. Hailey was born in Irvine, but grew up in the beachside community of San Clemente with parents Geoff and Michelle, as well as her brother Seth.
2. She started snowboarding when she was five. Her dad, a snowboarder himself, took her to the region’s Big Bear resort to teach her. She landed her first sponsor, snowboarding brand Burton, only a year later.
3. She stopped going to “regular school” in the eighth grade. Now, Hailey’s homeschooled in between competitions (and is currently taking her finals to graduate high school, you know, while training for the Olympics, nbd).
4. "I don’t have time for prom, or dances and homecoming," Hailey told Cosmopolitan.com. "I think even if I was in public school, I wouldn’t be into all of the makeup and dressing up. I’d rather be outside playing sports!
"I do spend a lot of time on my phone, like a lot of people my age do," she added, laughing. "I’m pretty much a normal kid, just in a different [set of circumstances]."
5. Hailey debuted on the snowboarding tour circuit when she was 13 years old. And she took that tour — the Mammoth Revolution Tour — by the horns, winning it on her first time out. As she puts it, “That's where I really was like, 'I'm pretty good at snowboarding.'”
6. She competed in the 2016 Youth Olympics, placing 8th in slopestyle and 9th in halfpipe. She’s also medaled twice at the Winter X Games. Her most recent medal: Gold in 2017, in the Big Air event.
7. During the 2017 X Games in Aspen, she landed a women’s competition first: A “Cab double cork 1080,” which looks really impressive.
8. She's superstitious... about socks. "I'm fairly superstitious, but I know it's just me coping with how nervous I am," Hailey told NBC. "I try to wear the same socks on contest day as the socks I wore on my best practice day."
9. Between competitions, she tries "to have chill days as often as I can." And a chill day entails doing nothing. (Nice.) "Most of the time I’m in my room, in bed, pretty much all day watching That 70s Show."
10. She has an adorable husky, Denver. And she is absolutely a pet Instagrammer.
11. Her dream career other than being a badass professional snowboarder would be to write for a snowboard magazine.
12. Whenever she travels, she always bring a camera with her, whether it's a disposable camera or her phone. She just got a new 33 millimeter film camera that she’s gonna start taking out on trips to document.
13. She look up to her parents. They've taught her to be the person she is today. And they've taught her not to take crap from anyone and do what she wanna do.
14. In her spare time, she enjoys playing music. According to her official Team USA bio, this includes guitar, ukulele, and piano.
15. And like any born and bred Southern Californian, she also enjoys surfing or just be outside, yoga, junk foods, chinese foods...