Kacy Catanzaro is currently signed with WWE on the Raw brand under the ring name Katana Chance.
31 Facts About Kacy Catanzaro
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Kacy Catanzaro is a one-time NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with Kayden Carter.
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Kacy Catanzaro attended Towson University in Towson, Maryland, from 2009 until 2012, studying early childhood education on an athletic scholarship.
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Kacy Catanzaro was a Junior Olympic gymnast, having started training at age 6.
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Kacy Catanzaro reached level 10 in 2007 and competed at the 2007 New Jersey Level 10 State Championships where she placed fifth in the Senior-A division.
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Kacy Catanzaro finished 23rd overall but finished 6th on the balance beam.
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Kacy Catanzaro competed in gymnastics for Towson in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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Kacy Catanzaro helped the Towson Tigers gymnastics team win the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships in 2009 and 2010.
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Kacy Catanzaro was named the 2012 Eastern College Athletic Conference Gymnast of the Year and was the top-ranked competitor in that conference for that year.
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Kacy Catanzaro worked for Alpha Warrior, an obstacle-course gym in San Antonio, Texas, from February 2013.
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Kacy Catanzaro spent two years training for American Ninja Warrior alongside her then-boyfriend and co-competitor Brent Steffensen.
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In 2014, Kacy Catanzaro became the first woman to complete the qualifying course of American Ninja Warrior, making it up the warped wall on her second try at 5:26.18 at the Dallas qualifiers, ranking her 21 out of 30; this makes her the first woman to make it up the warped wall in competition.
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Later in 2014, Kacy Catanzaro competed in the Dallas finals of American Ninja Warrior.
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Kacy Catanzaro was the first woman ever to complete a city finals course, qualifying for the national finals in Las Vegas with a time of 8 minutes, 59 seconds.
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Kacy Catanzaro failed to complete the first stage of the National Finals in Las Vegas.
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Kacy Catanzaro made it past the first three obstacles, including the Giant Ring and the Silk Slider, before she fell attempting the Jumping Spider, where her full extension was simply too short to hold the position.
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Kacy Catanzaro was given a wild card spot in Vegas and she failed due to a mistimed trampoline jump at the Propeller Bar at Stage 1 of the national finals.
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In 2016, Kacy Catanzaro was invited to compete in the 32nd competition of the original Japanese version of ANW, Sasuke.
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Kacy Catanzaro performed well, completing 8 of the stage 1 obstacles before timing out on the final obstacle, the Lumberjack Climb.
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In December 2016 Kacy Catanzaro co-hosted as a broadcaster the Team Ninja Warrior College Madness series of shows.
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In 2017, Kacy Catanzaro competed in American Ninja Warrior season 9 in the San Antonio city qualifier and finals.
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In 2017, Kacy Catanzaro announced her retirement from American Ninja Warrior, with season 9 being her last.
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On January 4,2017, Kacy Catanzaro received a tryout with WWE at their WWE Performance Center.
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On January 18,2018, WWE officially announced Kacy Catanzaro had reported to the WWE Performance Center.
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Kacy Catanzaro continued to make appearances during 2018, both in house shows and on NXT television; she wrestled as a face and took inspiration from WWE's Alexa Bliss's slogan "Five Feet of Fury", making reference to Kacy Catanzaro's own diminutive size.
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On January 27,2019, Kacy Catanzaro made her main roster debut, entering the Royal Rumble at number 19 and lasting 10:45, before being eliminated by Ripley.
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In September 2019, it was reported that Kacy Catanzaro had resigned from WWE and retired from professional wrestling due to an ongoing back injury she suffered.
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Kacy Catanzaro returned on the January 15,2020, episode of NXT as a surprise entrant in a women's battle royal.
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Kacy Catanzaro revealed in an interview that she took some time off because she had doubts about continuing in the Professional Wrestling business.
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Kacy Catanzaro made her video game debut in the Banzai Pack DLC for WWE 2K22.
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Kacy Catanzaro appeared in WWE 2K23 under her Katana Chance ring name.