Katie Bone is aware of the “American Ninja Warrior” stage properly.
The New Mexico-based athlete isn’t any stranger to the TV competitors. She whet her urge for food as a contender on “American Ninja Warrior Junior” in 2020 and once more on “American Ninja Warrior” in 2022.
On Monday evening, Bone beat out 12 girls to win the “American Ninja Warrior Girls’s Championship” — not solely claiming the title however a money prize of $50,000. She donated $5,000 to the Juvenile Diabetes Analysis Basis and Pumped NM.
Bone has not solely appeared on three iterations of the competitors sequence, however can be a nationally-ranked rock climber.
Whereas not the youngest competitor anymore, she was the shortest standing at 5 foot, 2 inches.
Bone, now 17, filmed the present in June 2022 and needed to hold it quiet in regards to the win.
She’s been making waves since competing in “American Ninja Warrior Jr.” in 2020.
To coach for the occasion throughout the pandemic, her father constructed a ninja course of their yard.
Throughout that competitors, Bone, who was identified with Sort 1 diabetes at 11 years outdated, competed with each her insulin pump and glucose monitor on her arms.
Being on the present additionally presents Bone with the chance to be an envoy for Sort 1 diabetes consciousness and illustration.
“Being a aggressive athlete with Sort 1 shouldn’t be simple,” Bone says. “I’m combating my physique each single day.”
On Monday evening, Stone Age Climbing held a watch celebration to help Bone. About 250 individuals had been there along with her mother and pop, Tammy and Matt.
Bone says Sort 1 diabetes didn’t finish her life, it simply modified it.
“I hope I encourage just a little child to put on their pump on their arm,” Bone mentioned. “It makes every part that you just try this extra superb.”
Bone’s mom mentioned the teenager is presently on the mend.
In February, Bone competed on the USA Nationwide Girls’s Group Climbing trials in Austin, Texas.
Throughout her fourth climb, she fell.
“Katie heard 4 pops,” Tammy Bone mentioned. “She tore her ACL and each side of her meniscus. This was a second she was getting ready for all her life and it acquired placed on pause.”
Bone had surgical procedure and has been getting bodily remedy in Colorado. The household returned Monday evening to New Mexico after being away for 3 months.
“It’s been the craziest season,” Tammy Bone mentioned. “Matt and I’ve labored collectively to ensure Katie will get the very best she will. Now it’s come to a degree the place we’ll do something to assist her heal stronger.”
Bone nonetheless has her eyes on the Olympics, although the street to restoration might take some extra time.
“I don’t want simple, I simply want potential,” she mentioned.