Steffany Garatejo was born in small village in Tolima but her family decided to move in capital city, Bogotá, due to violence in the region.

They settled in the Sierra Morena district, Ciudad Bolívar, where Steffany started visiting Judo "bee" in her basic school at age 10.

[2] First years she spent most of her time with traveling because way from district where she lived and place where is her club takes almost 2 hours.

Her sport wishing is participating at Olympic Games and in personal life she wants to be a coroner because of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Steffany's biggest success is winning gold medal at Pan American Judo Championships in 2009.