Kate Hansen is now student at Brigham Young University but in the middle of her college experience Hansen did what many college students only dream of doing. She competed in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Hansen finished in 10th place in the luge at the Olympics but attracted attention of fans and media around the world. In the TEDxTalk she gave in March, Hansen explained that it wasn't her athletic prowess that won the hearts of people worldwide.
“They remember me for the person that I was. They remember me for the person that I chose to be, for the energy that I brought and the smile that I had,” Hansen said in a TEDxTalks video uploaded last month.