From Sharapova to Sheckler, Kidzworld looks at the world's top teen athletes. Check out our picks right here.

Top Teen Athletes - Freddy Adu
Freddy Adu has been playing pro soccer for
DC United of
Major League Soccer for the past three years. The 17 year-old has become one of the league's
most exciting players and in January 2006, Adu became the youngest player to play for the
US National Team. His popularity has led to a million-dollar endorsement deal from Nike and the chance to date fellow
teen celebrity JoJo.
Top Teen Athletes - Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby has certainly lived up to the hype which surrounded the teen hockey star when he entered the
National Hockey League in 2005. In his rookie season, the 18 year-old winger
led the Pittsburgh Penguins in scoring and became an instant star in
the NHL. Crosby is expected to become the team's
youngest ever captain in 2006 and should be a
hockey superstar for years to come.
Top Teen Athletes - Dallas Friday
Dallas Friday already has four gold medals from
the X Games on her trophy shelf and the
wakeboarding sensation is just 19. Friday is the undisputed Queen of the Wakeboarding World and has
pushed the sport to new levels with mind-blowing aerials and a wide arsenal of sick tricks. Friday doesn't have any plans on slowing down and hopes to break
Dave Mirra's record for total medals won at the X Games.
Top Teen Athletes - Kimmie Meissner
Kimmie Meissner stepped out of the shadow of fellow American,
Sasha Cohen, by winning the
2006 World Figure Skating Championships at the age of 16. Meissner won the gold while competing at the World Championships
for the first time and had the figure skating world saying, "Sasha who?". Meissner also placed sixth at the
2006 Winter Olympics in
Torino, Italy and was nominated for an ESPY award as
Breakthrough Athlete of the Year.
Top Teen Athletes - Park Tae-hwan
Park Tae-hwan may not exactly be a household name in North America but
the Korean is a rising
swimming star. The 16 year-old won a gold in the 400-meter freestyle at the
2006 Pan Pacific Championships, making him the first Korean swimmer to win a gold in any international event. Park competed for Korea at
2004 Olympics when he was just 14 and will be a gold-medal favorite at the
2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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