Peanut (YouTuber) Bio

After moving to Annapolis, Maryland in the summer of 2014 to participate in 1st Class Gymnastics, Peanut became close friends with Amanda Trieschman, a fellow gymnast from there. They created a joint YouTube channel named 'Peanut and Amanda's Life' and uploaded the first video, 'All about us!', on January 27, 2015. They continued to post vlogs, challenges, and gymnastics videos on the channel and reached 1k subscribers within a month. The duo became very popular, but by the end of the year, Peanut appeared less and less on the videos. In fact, Amanda posted a birthday video from Trapeze School New York on December 27, but Peanut, whose birthday it was, was missing from the video. Amanda subsequently changed the title of the channel to 'itzamanda' in January 2016, and the channel has now become her personal channel titled 'Amanda Grace'. Peanut had already created her own channel 'Katie Ours' in September 2015. However, the first video on her channel appeared in November 2017. She only posts gymnastics videos on the channel, and has earned 14k subscribers, whereas her previous channel with Amanda has 111k subscribers. She is also popular on Instagram with 199k followers and has her own website focused on gymnastics.

Peanut began competing at state level events in 2009, when she was seven years old. She finished first in the all-around with a 37.775 and first on uneven bars and floor exercise at the Level 4 State Championships that year. In 2010, she participated as a level 5 gymnast at the State Championships where she was placed second in the all-around with a 37.300 and second on balance beam and floor exercise. Following the season, she began training at Win-Win Gymnastics in Odenton, Maryland. There, she was tested out of level 6 and was promoted to level 7. Participating at the Level 7 State Championships during the 2010-2011 season, she finished third in the all-around with a 37.550 and third on balance beam.

During the 2012 State Championships, she participated as a level 8 gymnast and finished second in the all-around with a 37.625 and first on balance beam and floor exercise. Qualifying for the Region 7 Championships, she scored a 37.150 in the all-around. The next year she moved up to level 9 and came second in the all-around with a 37.800 and first on uneven bars and balance beam at the State Championships. At the Region 7 Championships, she finished sixth in the all-around with a 37.075 and third on uneven bars. Also in 2013, she earned a gold medal on uneven bars and finished in the top ten in the all-around at the Level 9 Eastern Nationals. Following an injury in 2014, she moved to 1st Class Gymnastics in Annapolis, Maryland and reached level 10 the next year. She qualified for the Regionals both in 2015 and 2017, finishing fourth and second, respectively, in the all-around at the State Championships. In the 2016 Region 7 Championships, she earned a bronze medal and qualified to the Junior Olympic Nationals in Ft. Worth, Texas. Moving to Docksiders Gymnastics in Millersville, Maryland, in 2018, she qualified to the Junior Olympic Nationals in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Peanut was born as Kathleen 'Katie' Ours on December 27, 2001, in Annapolis, Maryland, United States, to Marc and Arline Ours. She has an older sister named Stephanie and an older brother named Christopher. She became interested in gymnastics at the age of two after watching her sister perform, and began her training when she was three. There were many girls with the name Katie on her competitive team, because of which her coach gave her the nickname 'Peanut' as she was very tiny. She was initially enrolled into a public school, but later had to be homeschooled because of her travels for training and shows. She is pursuing an online course and will graduate from high school in 2021. She has three pet dogs named Joey, Teddy and Boomer. She has recently found a new hobby: armadillo racing.