ESPN’s “Olympic Athlete,” Kathryne Bertine, will be writing about her experience this past August trying out for the US Women’s National Team Handball squad. Bertine is a former figure skater, rower, and triathlete who’s always had Olympic dreams and has been hired by ESPN to chronicle her attempts to try and find a spot on the 2008 Olympic Team.

The premise behind the writing assignment as highlighted at ESPN.com: “Maybe you can identify with this. Some ESPN.com editors were sitting around watching the two-man luge event during the 2006 Winter Olympics. "Hey, I could do that," one of us said. "Anybody halfway athletic could do that." At that moment, an idea was born: What would happen if a better-than-average-but-not-great athlete, who also happened to be able to write, tried to make the U.S. Olympic team in the Summer Games' equivalent of the two-man luge?”

Her full write up on her first experience, trying out for Modern Pentathlon is here:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=olympianpart1&lpos=spo

Her Personal Website: www.kathrynbertine.com

We’ll link to her handball article when it’s posted at ESPN.