{"id":1187,"date":"2026-06-03T20:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:04:34","slug":"colorado-raised-paralympian-is-turning-heads-on-love-island-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Colorado-raised Paralympian is turning heads on \u2018Love Island USA\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For reality TV fans, there\u2019s one surefire way to mark when summer has officially begun: A new season of \u201cLove Island USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1185\">Colorado\u2019s \u2018first public Christian school\u2019 closes permanently<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The villa officially opened on Tuesday night for the season 8 premiere, welcoming a new cast of scantily clad Islanders for six weeks of sunbathing, raunchy games and communal dating \u2014 all in hopes they will be voted America\u2019s favorite couple and win $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Coloradans have a hometown hero to root for this season, as one woman in the original group of Islanders boasts local roots.<\/p>\n<p>Beatriz Hatz is a 25-year-old medal-winning Paralympian currently living in San Diego. But before she was a West Coast resident, Hatz grew up in Lakewood, Colo. where she made a name for herself in track and field competitions.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of D\u2019Evelyn High School\u2019s class of 2019, Hatz revealed on the \u201cLove Island\u201d premiere that she was always into sports and grew up competing with her two brothers. On Team USA, she has competed in long jump and sprinting events, including at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and the 2024 Paris Paralympics. In the 2024 competition, she earned a bronze medal in the long jump.<\/p>\n<p>Hatz arrived at the \u201cLove Island\u201d villa in Fiji on Tuesday night in a stunning red bikini top and skirt with her long curly hair draped over her shoulders and spoke about her disability. A proud Mexican-American, Hatz was born with a rare birth defect called fibular hemimelia, which means the fibula bone in her right leg never developed. Hatz\u2019s leg below the knee was amputated when she was 10 months old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey thought maybe I would never walk and now I run for a living,\u201d she said during introductions with show host Ariana Maddix and the other female Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1183\">Denver will raffle off $1,000 in gift cards for commuters, residents who ditch their cars more often<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Hatz\u2019s bio on the Team USA website, her hobbies include drawing, painting and snowboarding. But we also learned a few more personal details during the \u201cLove Island\u201d premiere.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the first compatibility game of the season, Islanders were broken into gendered groups and separated by colorful doors. They were asked a series of questions and then answered them by standing behind the doors marked with their preferred answers. Once the doors opened, they got to see who from the opposite sex had the same answer and then play a round of tonsil hockey with each person.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll save a few of the juicer details for you to discover yourself, but Hatz had undeniable face-sucking chemistry with a guy named Sean, who is a police officer from Pennsylvania, and the two coupled up on the first night in the villa. (Officer Sexy Pants, as he\u2019s known, caught some shade from the mayor of the town where he used to work after resigning to join the cast.)<\/p>\n<p>During their conversations, we also learned Hatz hates country music \u2014 \u201cI would much rather acquire another disability and become deaf than listen to country music,\u201d she said \u2014 and sees having a kid as a red flag, which doesn\u2019t bode well for her relationship with Sean, who is also a father. By the end of the episode, Hatz was swapping spit with a brand new bombshell.<\/p>\n<p>What happens next? You\u2019ll have to keep up with the drama every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday when \u201cLove Island USA\u201d airs new episodes on Peacock.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, In The Know, to get entertainment news sent straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1181\">Pro-Palestinian group at CU Boulder justifies Pearl Street firebombing, calls for killer\u2019s release<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Island USA review: A graduate of D\u2019Evelyn High School in Lakewood, Beatriz Hatz is a 25-year-old medal-winning Paralympian who competes in track and field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-things-to-do","category-tv-streaming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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