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Sports champs who have visited White House

Por: Noticel

Publicado: Oct 10, 2017 12:00 AM

Actualizado: May 30, 2025 04:19 PM

Sports champs who've visited White House

President Donald Trump may have uninvited the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House, but take a look at other sports champs who've visited 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue over the years.

President Donald Trump is presented with two flags as he hosts Team USA at the White House on April 27, 2018. Holding the U.S. Olympic Team flag are bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor and curler John Shuster. Holding the Paralympic Team flag are snowboarder Mike Schultz and snowboarder Brenna Huckaby.

President Obama is presented with a jersey by Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers during a White House South Lawn event on Nov. 10, 2016, to honor the team's 2016 NBA championship.

The UConn women's basketball team made four straight visits to the White House from 2013 to 2016 (the last of which is seen here) during a streak in which they dominated women's college basketball with 10 titles in the 17-season stretch from 2000 to 2016.

President Obama holds a jersey given to him by the 2015 World Series Champion Kansas City Royals during a July 21, 2016, event to honor them at the White House.

When they made their White House visit, the Royals also brought along an extra jersey for White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, a Kansas City native and diehard Royals fan.

Boston Red Sox player Jonny Gomes wore this patriotic suit when he visited the White House and President Obama with his teammates in April 2014 to celebrate their 2013 World Series championship.

Red Sox slugger David Ortiz took the opportunity to snap a selfie with President Obama.

Presidents often get a chance to not only meet current players when champions visit the White House, but also sports legends. Here, President Obama receives a jersey from Hall of Fame player Willie Mays (left) and San Francisco Giants General Manager Brian Sabean during a July 2011 White House event honoring the 2010 World Series champions.

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant presents a jersey to President Barack Obama during an event with the 2009 NBA champions in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 25, 2010.

When the Detroit Red Wings visited President George W. Bush in 2008 to celebrate their 2007 Stanley Cup title, they brought along jerseys not only for the current President Bush, but also his father.

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning hands off a souvenir football to President Bush during an April 2008 event to honor the Super Bowl XLII championship team at the White House.

Boston Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek hands President Bush a jersey on the South Lawn of the White House on Feb. 27, 2008, during an event honoring the 2007 World Series champions.

Kobe Bryant (far left) made an interesting fashion choice with his long leather jacket when visiting the White House and President Bush in January 2002 to celebrate the Los Angeles Lakers' 2001 NBA Championship.

Here, Bryant presents President Bush with a team jersey during the event.

President Bill Clinton honors the 1999 NBA champion San Antonio Spurs at the White House on Sept. 7, 1999.

President Clinton holds up a Detroit Red Wings jersey during the NHL team's Jan. 30, 1998, trip to the White House after winning the 1997 Stanley Cup.

A big sports fan, President Obama didn't limit himself to just meeting with current champions. In August 2013, he hosted members of the undefeated 1972 Super Bowl Champion Miami Dolphins, including head coach Don Shula (R), quarterback Bob Griese (L), running back Larry Csonka (4th L), after learning the team didn't get a chance to be honored at the White House back then.

A Chicago Bears fan, Obama did the same for the 1985 Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears in October 2011.

The traditional gift is usually a team jersey personalized in some way for the president, but NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Kyle Busch brought Obama a helmet during his 2016 visit.

The Los Angeles Kings gave Obama a silver hockey stick when they visited the White House in February 2015 to mark their Stanley Cup Championship.

Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino gave President Obama a Louisville Slugger baseball bat during a White House visit to commemorate the team's 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.

But his hometown Chicago Blackhawks presented Obama with a special presidential parking pass when he honored them in February 2016 for their 2015 Stanley Cup Championship.

First lady Michelle Obama got her own personalized hockey jersey from USA Hockey Executive Director Dave Ogrean (L) and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman (R) when she hosted a street hockey workout and clinic with the NHL champion Chicago Blackhawks in 2011.

President George W. Bush received a field hockey stick from the NCAA champion University of Maryland women's field hockey team during an event on the White House South Lawn celebrating NCAA sports champions on April 6, 2006.

But that gift was upstaged just a year later when the Auburn University women's swim team gave President Bush a pair of swim trunks.

The tradition dates back to at least the mid-1800s, with President Andrew Johnson hosting the Brooklyn Atlantics and Washington Nationals amateur baseball teams on Aug. 30, 1865, according to ESPN.

While the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional baseball team to visit the White House at the invitation of President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, the first World Series champion to visit is believed to be the 1924 Washington Senators, who were invited by President Calvin Coolidge (pictured).

President John F. Kennedy invited Red Auerbach and the Boston Celtics to the White House in 1963.