- U.S. Paralympic Team member - 2016
- American Record SB9 200m breaststroke
- Multiple Warrior Games medals in swimming, track & field, cycling
- 2013 CISM Para Track 3 - gold
- 2013-14 Nationals - five-time gold medalist
- CAN-AM’s - gold
- 2015 CISM Para Swimming - gold, two-time bronze against para males
SGT Elizabeth Marks
Para-Swimming
Combat Medic
Combat Medic
Events – 100m breaststroke
Hometown – Prescott Valley, Arizona
High School – Arizona Project Challenge
College – American Military University
Joined Army – July 2008
Military Occupation – Combat Medic
Sergeant Elizabeth Marks is a combat medic and a Paralympic swimmer in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program who won four gold medals at the 2016 Invictus Games at Walt Disney World ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. She gave one of her gold medals to Invictus Games founder Prince Harry to deliver to members of the Papworth Hospital staff that saved Marks’ life after she traveled to London to compete in the inaugural Invictus Games in the fall of 2014. She sustained bilateral hip injuries in 2010 while serving in Iraq, and nearly died in London in 2014 from the respiratory infection that led to a medically induced coma that lasted nearly one month. Marks, 25, a native of Prescott Valley, Arizona, who joined the Army at age 17 is now stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. She punched her ticket to Rio de Janeiro with stellar performances at the 2016 U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team Trials June 30 through July 2 at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. She won the 100-meter breaststroke event there with a personal-best time of 1 minute, 28.54 seconds – only .01 seconds off the world record of 1:28.53 in her classification.
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Hometown – Prescott Valley, Arizona
High School – Arizona Project Challenge
College – American Military University
Joined Army – July 2008
Military Occupation – Combat Medic
Sergeant Elizabeth Marks is a combat medic and a Paralympic swimmer in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program who won four gold medals at the 2016 Invictus Games at Walt Disney World ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. She gave one of her gold medals to Invictus Games founder Prince Harry to deliver to members of the Papworth Hospital staff that saved Marks’ life after she traveled to London to compete in the inaugural Invictus Games in the fall of 2014. She sustained bilateral hip injuries in 2010 while serving in Iraq, and nearly died in London in 2014 from the respiratory infection that led to a medically induced coma that lasted nearly one month. Marks, 25, a native of Prescott Valley, Arizona, who joined the Army at age 17 is now stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. She punched her ticket to Rio de Janeiro with stellar performances at the 2016 U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team Trials June 30 through July 2 at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. She won the 100-meter breaststroke event there with a personal-best time of 1 minute, 28.54 seconds – only .01 seconds off the world record of 1:28.53 in her classification.
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