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Dafne Bonachea Tamargo

Field | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Wheelchair Rugby | Track
  • Birthplace

    Miami, FL
  • Branch

    Navy
  • Sport

    Field | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Wheelchair Rugby | Track

Air Controlman Second Class Dafne Bonachea Tamargo was born in Cuba but lived most of her life in Miami, Fla. She joined the Navy after her grandmother passed away because she wanted to do something daring and impossible. She also loved the ocean. This path married the two. She originally entered as a Navy diver, but her patella shifted during an early training exercise, so she shifted to air traffic control. She served on the USS Lincoln and once visited the Philippines on a humanitarian community relations (COMREL) assignment.

She truly cares about the wellbeing of her fellow sailors and she was the vice president of Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions (CSADD) while on the Lincoln and helped boost the morale of 3,000 shipmates. She also mentored friend who was at risk of being passed over for promotion because she couldn’t pass her physical readiness test (PRT), changing her life for the better. She brings this same sense of friendship and personal responsibility to Team Navy. When she sees an athlete who is struggling, or beat down because they feel defeated, she is often the first to reminds them that it’s more important to compare themselves to who they were this time last year.

After an accident during deployment, Bonachea Tamargo joined Navy Wounded Warrior at Navy Medical Center San Diego. She didn’t think the adaptive sports program was for her, but after her care team insisted, she attended her first camp in November 2023. It changed her life and gave her a new goal. “I want to dominate in Games,” she said.

During the 2024 Warrior Games, Bonachea Tamargo will compete in field, indoor rowing, powerlifting, and swimming.

Other Teammates

Kolawole Arubuolawe

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Sitting Volleyball | Track

Austin Belschner

Archery | Precision Air Sports | Wheelchair Rugby

Michael Best

Archery | Field | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Wheelchair Rugby

Johnathan Boswell

Cycling | Swimming | Wheelchair Rugby

Justin Chase

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Sitting Volleyball | Swimming | Track

Isaac Cho

Archery | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Wheelchair Basketball

Tiffany Clark

Powerlifting | Sitting Volleyball | Swimming | Track | Field

Maria Edwards

Indoor Rowing | Track | Field

Vincent Falcetta

Indoor Rowing | Swimming

Edward J Farnon

Cycling | Swimming | Field

Steven Flemming

Archery | Cycling | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Wheelchair Basketball

David Fuller

Archery | Powerlifting | Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby | Field

Jonathan Gancayco

Indoor Rowing | Field

Abigail Garcia

Cycling | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Track

Angela Harris

Archery | Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Track | Wheelchair Rugby

Kyle Higginbotham

Archery | Indoor Rowing | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Field

Abdulrahman Ibn Asadullah

Archery | Field | Sitting Volleyball | Wheelchair Rugby

Rachel Iglesias

Cycling | Precision Air Sports | Field

Ainesey Inguanzo

Archery | Indoor Rowing | Precision Air Sports | Sitting Volleyball | Swimming

Jerome Jeffrey

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Field

Malik Jones

Archery | Powerlifting | Wheelchair Basketball | Field

Roberto Lopez

Precision Air Sports | Field

Levi Moore

Cycling | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby

Jarek Neczypor

Cycling | Precision Air Sports | Track | Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby

Storm Oliver

Powerlifting | Swimming | Field

Johnathan Paige

Archery | Precision Air Sports | Track

Jiesyl Rama

Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby | Field

Dillon Ripperger

Archery | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Track | Field

Kayla Saska

Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby | Field

Michele Schmidt

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Swimming | Track

Mitchell Sheppard

Archery | Precision Air Sports | Sitting Volleyball | Track | Wheelchair Basketball

Edward St. Pierre

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Swimming | Track

Gabrielle Varhola

Archery | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Track | Field

Tiffany Whetstonestaley

Archery | Cycling | Precision Air Sports

Travis Wyatt

Archery | Cycling | Precision Air Sports | Field

Maria Yuvienco

Archery | Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Field

Gabriella Zamora

Archery | Indoor Rowing | Precision Air Sports | Sitting Volleyball | Track