A driven competitor and hard-working student athlete, junior Katrina Steinhauser ascertains she gives any sport she competes in her total effort. Her love for athletics keeps Steinhauser busy around the year, for neither the cold weather in the depth of the winter or the extreme heat in the peak of the summer can keep Steinhauser from her games. Steinhauser plays tennis in the fall, throws hoops in the winter, participates in track and field in the spring, and pole vaults year-round.
 Steinhauser is currently occupied with basketball, practicing every day for three hours and playing in an average of two varsity games per week. 
 Although she loves competing at basketball games, Steinhauser sometimes gets irritated about “phsyco people” guarding her from the basket.
 One of the funniest memories Steinhauser and her remember from this season is the time she fell on her butt just as she was shooting the basketball. Though everyone was laughing with her, the basketball still swooshed through the basket
 Steinhauser believes her parents and her coaches have a big impact on her performance, for they push her hard and cheer her on to help her do well. After a basketball game, Steinhauser’s dad typically compliments her successes or tells her what she has to work on. Steinhauser admits that her biggest distraction from sports and school are her friends and favorite TV shows, That Seventies Show and Lost.
 As the basketball season is drawing to a close, Steinhauser looks forward to participating in track and field, with a focus on pole vaulting. Steinhauser has been taking pole vaulting lessons at the Ohio State University in collaboration with the Buckeye Polevault Club for nearly two years now.  Track coach Dick Walters introduced Steinhauser to David Garcia, the OSU vaulting coach, in 2006 year after Walters noticed Steinhauser’s potential in vaulting.  Steinhauser has enjoyed going to the lessons ever since, for she is one step closer to her goal every time she goes.
 Steinhauser aims to vault around 12 feet high this season. Although she has already reached her goal at practice, she recognizes that indoor vaulting is easier than vaulting outdoors. Her record during last year’s track season was 10’8’, which earned her one of many first place finishes in local track meets.
  Steinhauser wants to continue vaulting in college.
 “I would like to go to OSU, but they don’t give out scholarships [for pole vaulting].”
 After earning a degree in graphic design or a related major, Steinhauser would like to move to Colorado or North Carolina so that she could fulfill her desire for adventure through snowboarding or surfing, though she has not yet learned how to do the latter.