5'6" Jaime "Hurricane" Clampitt was born on 8 July 1976 in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada and has since lived in Calgary, Alberta and in Narrangansett, Rhode Island.

Jaime began her boxing career at age 15 as an amateur at the Regina Boxing Club in Saskatchewan. She later boxed out of Calgary's Inner-City Club where she was trained by John Rajala.

She began boxing after getting bored with gymnastics after eight years of training. "My mother told me to flip through the yellow pages of the phone book, and pick a sport. The first one I came to was boxing, so I told her I wanted to do it." No one took her seriously, but her father brought her to the local boxing gym, not expecting her to last through the day. He was mistaken!