Aaron Charles Rodgers was born on December 2, 1983, in Chico, California, about two hours north of Sacramento. His parents are Darla Leigh and Edward Wesley Rodgers. The Rodgers family, including Aaron and his two brothers, Luke and Jordan, moved to Ukiah, California, when he was very young. There, Aaron attended Oak Manor Elementary School. Aaron’s father, a Texas-born chiropractor who played football as an offensive lineman for California State University, Chico from 1973 to 1976, taught all three of his sons how to throw a football. He also taught his sons to steer clear of drugs and alcohol and to embrace their faith as much as possible. He drove that message home by teaching them that getting into trouble and being around the bad element could keep them away from sports. When Aaron was ten, he won a local basketball free-throw competition, his first athletic award, and was featured on the front page of the Ukiah Daily Journal.
Later on, his family moved to Beaverton, Oregon, where Rodgers attended Vose Elementary School and Whitford Middle School, and, in the Raleigh Hills Little League, he played shortstop, center field and pitcher. In 1997, he returned to Chico and attended Pleasant Valley High School, right near the center of town and what would later become the town square. While at Pleasant Valley High, he started at quarterback for two years and threw for 4,421 passing yards. He also set single-game records of six touchdowns and 440 all-purpose yards. In 2001, Rodgers set a single-season record with 2,466 total yards, before graduating in the spring of 2002. Rodgers completed his high school academic career with a perfect 4.0 grade point average and scored 1400 on his unofficial SATs.