Katie Verderber

Quick Facts

• Speciality: Mixed Team 
• Took up wheelchair curling in 2024
• Hobbies include camping, skiing, and spending time with her four dogs

Biographical Information

Katie Verderber was raised in Valier, Montana. Verderber was a Judge Advocate General (JAG) in the United States Army and deployed to Afghanistan in 2019. After she was medically retired from the Army, due to a back injury she suffered in Afghanistan that caused permanent damage to her spine, she returned home to Montana, where she is a practicing attorney focused on business and contract disputes, real estate matters, and probates.

Verderber took up wheelchair curling in 2024 and the following year was named to the U.S. Paralympic Team for the Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. Verderber said after making the team: “It’s hard to believe I found out two years ago I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life to learning I’m going to be a Paralympian."

Verderber received her undergraduate degree from the University of Montana and her law degree from Syracuse University. 

Her hobbies include camping, skiing, and spending time with her four dogs.