On Friday night, the Viii Sports Competition will air on ESPN 2 and one of many opponents featured within the occasion is Kim Kaiser of Billings.

Kaiser is the Billings Family YMCA CEO and describes the brand new competitors as distinctive and chaotic.

“It’s eight sports in three minutes,” Kaiser mentioned. “It’s awesome because anyone can do it. Your time might not be great, but anybody can try it.”

The competitors is ready on a 3-minute course. Contestants go from one station to the following, testing their talents at issues like chipping golf balls into a delegated space, capturing a basketball, or hitting a tennis ball right into a goal.

Contestants are scored based mostly on their time and efficiency within the completely different stations.

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While the competitors that may seem on ESPN Friday was held in Nashville, Tennessee, again in May, Kaiser’s introduction to the game got here years earlier than at a YMCA conference.

“The guy who invented Viii sports was there and did a promo at one of our receptions,” Kaiser mentioned. “He said, ‘Hey, I’m looking for some (YMCA clubs) that would be interested in pilot testing this new sport I came up with.'”

Kaiser mentioned as quickly as she noticed the presentation, she was in.

“Of course I was all in,” Kaiser mentioned. “This looks like something that would be amazing and an awesome thing to bring to our community.”

So, the Billings YMCA turned one in all eight across the nation that opted to assist pilot this system. An occasion was hosted in Billings in 2022 permitting them to supply suggestions to the creator.

Kaiser did not simply oversee the occasion in Billings. She competed in it, incomes the very best time and rating of any feminine participant.

“Personally, I thought this was a great challenge and an opportunity to see how good I could get at each one of these,” Kaiser mentioned.

Kaiser additionally gained one other competitors in Crown Point, Indiana. Both wins helped Kaiser earn an invite to the ESPN-hosted occasion in Nashville.

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“The creator approached me and said, ‘It would be awesome to have a woman who has won some of these at this invitational,'” Kaiser mentioned. “So, that was kind of how I got the chance to compete.”

And whereas many people would have been nervous to compete round so many cameras, Kaiser mentioned she did her greatest to disregard them.

“I think having the cameras on you can be kind of scary,” Kaiser mentioned. “When you focus and play your sports, I don’t know, I just kind of tried to block them out.”

Kaiser mentioned she wasn’t allowed to inform MTN News how she did till the competitors premiers on Friday night time. Regardless of the result, she mentioned she is wanting ahead to persevering with to offer folks in Billings a singular expertise.

“I just thought it was an opportunity to have more healthy things for teens and our youth to do,” Kaiser mentioned.