Shetler Sam
Type of person | Individual
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Place of birth | Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Sam Shetler
Sam is originally from Phoenix Arizona, USA. After moving 4,000km to Massachusetts he started skating in his early teens. His brother is a professional skateboarder who owns an East Coast skateboard company by the name of All I Need Skateboarding. He met and married an Aussie and moved to Australia in 2010. He now lives in Evanston South and is heavily involved with Gawler Youth. He teaches free monthly skateboarding lessons at Gawler Skatepark.
Sam is also a secondary teacher and a founding member of the Anti-Poverty Network SA "Anti-Poverty Network SA is an alliance of people affected and concerned by poverty and unemployment, including job-seekers, low-income workers, sole parents, age and disability pensioners, students, community and welfare workers, and others."
First shared on Gawler in Photographs ‘Humans of Gawler’ series 11 November 2020.
Photographs by Daniel James Down. Please click here to visit the Gawler in Photographs Facebook page.
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