Anna McArthur competes on “American Ninja Warrior.” Elizabeth Morris, NBC
Anna McArthur competes on “American Ninja Warrior.” Elizabeth Morris, NBC
The Utah contingent of “American Ninja Warrior” this season continues to increase.
Anna McArthur, a 16-year-old from St. George, is without doubt one of the newest Utah ninjas to safe a spot within the present’s semifinals, which start July 31.
Who's Anna McArthur on ‘American Ninja Warrior’?
McArthur was the youngest feminine competitor to seem within the July 17 episode of “American Ninja Warrior,” making her debut run on a difficult impediment course that examined every thing from steadiness to higher physique power.
The teenager, who's 5 toes tall, splashed down on the fourth impediment, nevertheless it was sufficient to place her within the working for a spot within the semifinals. On the finish of the episode, McArthur took half in a run-off with Rachel Beth Drake to assert the fourth spot among the many feminine rivals (the highest 12 males and prime 4 ladies of every episode advance to the semifinals).
McArthur breezed by way of and accomplished the impediment course, hitting the buzzer to affix a number of different Utahns within the subsequent spherical of the competitors.
Anna McArthur competes on “American Ninja Warrior.”
Elizabeth Morris, NBC
It’s probably a surreal second for the highschool scholar, who was 7 when she began watching the present. She would file episodes and watch them again and again, recreating the obstacles in her residence, in response to a clip that aired in the course of the episode.
“I’m gonna do that after I develop up,” her mother recalled her saying.
McArthur was once a gymnast and violinist however gave up each to give attention to “American Ninja Warrior” coaching on the age of 11, in response to data the present despatched to the Deseret Information.
And now, staying true to her phrase, McArthur has made a profitable “American Ninja Warrior” debut and remains to be within the working to assert the $1 million prize (one thing that’s solely been finished twice in present historical past — one in all them being Salt Lake Metropolis’s Isaac Caldiero, the Deseret Information beforehand reported).
When she isn’t coaching for “American Ninja Warrior,” McArthur could be discovered at her household’s enterprise, McArthur’s Temple View RV Resort in St. George. The campground has been within the household since her grandfather purchased it in 1984, and he or she hopes to run it herself sooner or later. She’s labored there since she was 11, serving to to coordinate camp social actions and doing facility upkeep, in response to data offered by the present.
Who're the opposite Utahns on ‘American Ninja Warrior’ this season?
There’s a minimum of six different Utahns who've reached the semifinals of “American Ninja Warrior” this season.
That features youngsters Kai Beckstrand and Violet Kepo’o. Beckstrand, 17, is taken into account a favourite to win the present this season, the Deseret Information beforehand reported. He accomplished his qualifying spherical in a little bit over 54 seconds — greater than 20 seconds forward of the second-fastest time of his episode. Kepo’o, a 15-year-old “ANW” rookie, snagged the No. 3 spot among the many feminine rivals throughout her episode.
Beckstrand’s father, Brian Beckstrand, can also be within the semifinals this season. The Beckstrands made historical past after they turned the primary father-son duo to finish a course, hit the buzzer and advance to the semifinals in the course of the thirteenth season of “ANW,” the Deseret Information beforehand reported.
Different Utah rivals embrace “ANW” veteran Mady Howard, who has made it to the finals twice, rookie Josh Ferguson, a photographer primarily based in American Fork, and Ally Tippetts Wootton, who after just a few years of coaching and getting invited to compete, lastly made her debut this season, per Deseret Information.