Born Katherine Kidd 26 years ago, this active smart-mouth tomboy spent much of her childhood in Atlanta playing sports, dancing ballet and tapping the piano keys. Miss Kidd later attended the prestigious and progressive Paideia school excelling in soccer and boys. College began in St. Louis where she led division II soccer in scoring but, longing for kudzu and pollen, Kat left on that midnight train for Athens.

Revisionist history credits Linus with extracting Kat from roundball kicksports and teaching her the fine art of hammer and huck. En route to collegiate greatness, she tackled Athens summer league legend Crawford Shippey, eventually convincing him that he could fare no better. He knew this and they soon wed. Sorry to be the one to break this to y'all.
Finishing up at UGA, she witnessed and began to emulate local club players who shared her enjoyment of competing at the loftiest level with highest spirit. As the legendary leaper Grant Cashin put it, Kat had "Competitive style with always a smile"! It may appear friendly but not to her foes from Wilmington to Palo Alto whom she cheerfully destroyed with her throwing accuracy and vicious defense.

Katherine Kidd-Shippey, now of Ozone, continues her jaunt through ultimate lugging around this motto: "Camaraderie is critical to making the experience worthwhile; winning without it lacks meaning." Her former coach Jami Epstein agrees, and would change nothing about her star player. "She's wild, emotional, boisterous and gritty. This is just how the mischievous Kat is enjoying one of her 9 lives." Can't wait to see the other 8.
— Stu Downs