Mrs. Sterl attended Catholic and public schools in Stuttgart and Hazen. She left her family's rice farm in Slovak to graduate from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia with a degree in Elementary Education and a minor in Early Childhood. Her teaching experience has been in Hazen, Stuttgart, and Hot Springs. She has been teaching at NLR Catholic Academy since 2005. Her many hobbies range from decorating, cooking, crocheting, scrapbooking, and music among a few others. She is very devoted to her family which consists of her husband, Hans; her daughter, Julianna; her son and daughter-in-law, her parents, grandparents, older brothers, 5 nieces, and 1 nephew.