11/09/2026
When Katrina joined Team OB, one of the things that stood out to us was that she cared about everything. Her work, her PhD, her friends, her fitness, she wanted to do well & be there for everyone. The problem was there was only so much of her to go around and her own goals often got dropped.
When she applied for our scholarship back in 2025, she told us she had tried apps, classes and programmes before but nothing had ever lasted, and she wanted to feel stronger, more confident and finally find some consistency. One line in her application has always stuck with us: âPeople often mistake me for being quite weak & Iâd love to prove them wrong!â
Fast-forward to now and that sentence makes us smile. Katrina is 8kg down, stronger, no longer dealing with daily back pain and sheâs starting to see the muscle sheâs worked hard to build. However for us, the biggest change has happened outside of those numbers.
A huge part of Katrinaâs journey has been learning boundaries, that her PhD doesnât have to mean fitness disappears, that a busy period doesnât mean the whole routine has gone. Most importantly looking after herself doesnât mean letting somebody else down.
Now in the final year of her PhD, sheâs far more consistent with training, protects her time and is learning to put herself first too.
As for proving to people she wasnât weak? The girl who once hid in the gym corners⊠she now loves lifting, talks to people in the gym (for too long nowđ
) and is even setting the teenagers little plank challenges plus consistently shows up week after week for the Team OB community.
More recently, Katrina has had some new health concerns arise. None of us would choose that chapter, but what weâve already seen is that sheâs taking all the strength, confidence and resilience sheâs built with her. Sometimes the hardest chapters are the ones that show you just how strong youâve become.
Katrina, you may not know yet what this next chapter will ask of you but we do know the woman walking into it is very different from the one who first joined us. Whatever comes next, weâre incredibly proud to be beside you through it.
Katie, Lucas & TeamOB