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Former Missouri State softball player appears on American Ninja Warrior

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Kat Ratcliff was once a Bear. Now she's a ninja.

The former Missouri State softball player — who went by Katrina Kurz — appeared on July 23's episode of American Ninja Warrior.

The episode featured Ratcliff's backstory with her parents dying while she was young and how she was adopted and later became a police officer in Austin, Texas.

The commentators on the show said she is an Army veteran and served in Iraq and Afghanistan.