Mikaela Shiffrin is the second child of Eileen and Jeff Shiffrin, both originally from the Northeastern United States and former ski racers.
Shiffrin’s father, Jeff grew up in New Jersey and was an avid skier on weekends in Vermont with his family. As an undergraduate, he raced for Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
Her mother Eileen raced in high school in northwestern Massachusetts in Berkshires, and her brother Taylor raced for the University of Denver.
When Mikaela was eight in 2003, the family moved to rural New Hampshire near Lyme, where her father an anesthesiologist, worked at Dartmouth-Hitchcook Medical Centre.
After five years, he took a new job in Denver, her older brother Taylor was in high school at Burke Mountain Academy, a ski academy in northeastern Vermont, and stayed in the east.