Nearly 200 injured U.S. Marines, veterans and international wounded warrior athletes are set to converge on Camp Pendleton, California, to compete in a slew of different sports during the ninth-annual Marine Corps Trials from Feb. 26 to March 9. The adaptive sports invitational, hosted by the Wounded Warrior Regiment, is organized into three competing teams. One team represents Wounded Warrior Battalion-East based at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Another is from Wounded Warrior Battalion-West at Camp Pendleton, and the third is an international team of wounded warriors from Colombia, France, Germany, Georgia, Italy and the Netherlands. Sports include archery, cycling, rowing, shooting, powerlifting, sitting volleyball and swimming, along with track and field, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. The Warrior Games themselves are set to take place in June, hosted by U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Florida. Read more on Military.com.
Marine Corps Preps for Warrior Games Trials
