The Warrior Video games are an annual adaptive-sports competitors organized by the Division of Protection and hosted by U.S. Army Coaching & Doctrine Command (TRADOC). This 12 months is the thirteenth anniversary highlighting the distinctive bodily abilities and psychological toughness of critically wounded, unwell and injured active-duty and veteran service members. Whereas the construction of the Warrior Video games Problem could also be barely completely different than a standard Warrior Video games, athletes will nonetheless take part in a premier and elite-level adaptive sporting occasion.
This 12 months’s occasion will function 11 sports activities: archery, biking, discipline, indoor rowing, powerlifting, capturing, monitor, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby.
2023 Workforce Navy Roster
HM3 Kolawole “Kola” Arubuolawe
MA2 Lindsay Battista (ret.)
HM1 Kalyn Bedel
CAPT Suzanne Brown, USCG (ret.)
HM2 Donald “Don” Calero
ABH2 Luis Cervantes (ret.)
STGC John “Blake” Conley (ret.)
LT Joshua “Josh” Connell (ret.)
LT William “Erik” Crews (ret.)
IS2 Andrew Garcia
LS2 Merry Garza (ret.)
GMC Derelle Gladden (ret.)
YN2 Aaron Gomez, USCG (ret.)
MA2 Kyle Higginbotham
AN Jasmine “Jas” Jones
AWO2 Kyle Kitzman
AS1 Francis “Frank” Lasch
HM1 Jamie Lopez (ret.)
MA1 Christopher “Chris” Lorenz
AWO2 Levi Moore (ret.)
HM2 Maxwell “Kwame” Ocloo
HM3 Johnathan “John” Paige
GM1 Larry Polendey (ret.)
CTT1 Jiesyl Rama
ATAN Christopher “Chris” Ratliff
FCA2 Kayla “Sassy” Saska
LS2 Baurel Souop (ret.)
RDML Edward “Teddy” St. Pierre, USCG
AFW1 Mykal “Mike” Sykes
IS2 Jesse Temares
NC1 Tiffany “Tiff” Whetstonestaley
OS1 Travis “Jigsaw” Wyatt (ret.)
HM3 Gabrielle “Gabby” Yarbrough (ret.)
PS2 Maria Concepcion “Cone” Yuvienco
Workforce Navy is a part of Navy Wounded Warrior’s adaptive athletics program, which is open to service members and veterans within the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard with severe, non-combat or combat-related accidents and bodily or psychological sicknesses. Recovering service members rebuild their energy and endurance, whereas additionally drawing inspiration from their teammates. Sports activities additionally assist construct shallowness, decrease stress ranges and invite service members to rejoin a crew setting. All enrollees in Navy Wounded Warrior are inspired to incorporate adaptive athletics of their restoration plans. Participation is voluntary and requires Sailors and Coast Guardsmen to self-refer or be referred by their instructions, chaplain, medical crew, friends, or others for enrollment dedication. Join by telephone at 855-NAVY-WWP (855-628-9997) or e-mail navywoundedwarrior.fct@navy.mil.
