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Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment announces 2013 Warrior Games team

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va., (March 18, 2013)-- The Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment hosted the third annual Marine Corps Trials aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., March 1- 6. The Trials are a preamble for the Regiment’s Warrior Athlete Reconditioning program to select 50 athletes to represent the Corps at the 2013 Warrior Games.

The Warrior Games is a Paralympic-style competition for wounded, ill and injured service members. The All-Marine Warrior Games Team will go head to head against the other branches of the Armed Forces May 11-17, at the Olympic Training Center and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The All-Marine team will defend their first place title by competing in swimming, shooting, cycling, wheelchair basketball, archery, volleyball, and track and field.

Here is your 2013 All-Marine Warrior Games Team:

Gunnery Sgt. Pedro Aquino
Cpl. Kidisti Averill
Cpl. Josue Barron (veteran)
Staff Sgt. Matthew Benack (veteran)
Lance Cpl. Zach Blair (veteran)
Sgt. Rachel Brokaw
Lance Cpl. Justin Burbank
Sgt. Rafael Cervantes
Cpl. Marcus Chischilly
Sgt. Evan Davis (veteran)
Cpl. Breanna Dill
Sgt. Kirstie Ennis
Cpl. William Frederick (veteran)
Cpl. Angel Gomez (veteran)
Cpl. Travis Greene (veteran)
Cpl. Ray Hennagir (veteran)
Lance Cpl. Joshua Jablon (veteran)
Cpl. Manuel Jimenez (veteran)
Staff Sgt. Ronnie Jimenez
Gunnery Sgt. Bryce Keene
Lance Cpl. Artem Lazukin
Capt. Derek Liu (veteran)
Sgt. Stephen Lunt (veteran)
Lance Cpl. Brandon Malone
Lance Cpl. Ben McCrosky
Sgt. Anthony McDaniel JR (veteran)
Sgt. Clayton McDaniel
Sgt Brian McPherson (veteran)
Master Sgt. Dionisios Nicholas (veteran)
Staff Sgt. Jason Pennock
Cpl. Michael Politowicz
Cpl. Luke Prentice (veteran)
Staff Sgt. Jason Quinones
Cpl. Jonathan Ray
Cpl. Kyle Reid
Sgt. Brian Riley (veteran)
Sgt. Eric Rodriguez
Sgt. Richard Romero
Capt. Richard Rush (veteran)
Cpl. Jorge Salazar
Staff Sgt. Jauntianne Saleigh
Cpl. Neil Schalk (veteran)
Cpl. Ivan Sears
Staff Sgt. Phillip Shockley
Sgt. Joey Smith (veteran)
Cpl. Richard Stalder (veteran)
Sgt. Evan Stratton (veteran)
Sgt. Jorge Toledo
Cpl. Sean Venezia (veteran)
Sgt. Lorie Yrigoyen

The Warrior Games are open to the public. Click here for a list of events.

The United States Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment provides and facilitates non-medical care to combat and non-combat wounded, ill, and injured Marines, and sailors attached to or in direct support of Marine units and their family members in order to assist them as they return to duty or transition to civilian life. The Regimental Headquarters element, located in Quantico, Va., commands the operations of two Wounded Warrior Battalions located at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and Camp Lejeune, N.C., and multiple detachments in locations around the globe.

For more information on the USMC Wounded Warrior Regiment or the Warrior Athlete Reconditioning program, visit www.woundedwarriorregiment.org, Facebook, or call the Sgt. Merlin German Wounded Warrior Call Center 24/7 at (877) 487-6299.