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Gene Calantoc

Archery | Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Swimming | Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby | Field
  • Birthplace

    Cibolo, TX
  • Previous WG

    NA
  • Branch

    Army
  • Sport

    Archery | Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Swimming | Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby | Field

Retired SSG Gene Calantoc and his wife Miho have three kids (Mica, Leina, and Kai) and a Frenchie puppy named Blu. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States when he was 12 years old in 1997. He joined the U.S. Army as an engineer in 2011. Calantoc deployed to Afghanistan with the 101st screaming eagles Bastogne engineers. In March 2020, he was in a motorcycle accident, and lost his left leg. He served over ten years in the service and got medically retired in 2021. After the accident and medically retiring from the military in 2021, he learned he needed to keep active. His therapist taught him that he is able to play many different sports without his leg. He competed in the regional games in Texas. Gene was supposed to be in the Warrior Games in 2021, but it was canceled.” He competed in the National Veterans Wheelchair Games in the summer of 2023 and in the 39th Army 10 Miler in Washington, where he placed 1st overall in the handcycle. “My goal as an athlete is to compete in the Invictus games and hope someday make it to the Paralympics.”

Other Teammates

Luis Avila

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

Abel Baez

Archery | Indoor Rowing | Precision Air Sports | Sitting Volleyball | Swimming | Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby | Field

Gerald Blakley

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

Steven Bortle

Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Sitting Volleyball | Swimming | Track | Field

Darnell Boynton

Sitting Volleyball | Swimming | Track | Field

John Michael Britton

Archery | Swimming | Track | Field

Victoria Camire

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Precision Air Sports | Track | Field

Berenice Carmona

Archery | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Field

Hyoshin “Gabi” Cha

Cycling | Swimming | Track | Field

Patrick Dayton

Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Swimming | Track

Nathan Degen

Archery | Precision Air Sports | Sitting Volleyball | Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby | Field

Jeremy Ditlevson

Indoor Rowing | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Field

Henry Escobedo

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Swimming | Track | Field

Brent Garlic

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

Corine Hamilton

Cycling | Powerlifting | Track | Field

Bianca Hayden

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

Matthew Hovey

Archery | Cycling | Precision Air Sports | Swimming

Brooke Jader

Cycling | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Track | Wheelchair Basketball | Field

Justin Lane

Archery | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Track | Wheelchair Basketball | Field

Shawn Lee

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Swimming | Field

Justin Mathers

Archery | Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Track | Wheelchair Basketball | Field

Jasmin McKenzie

Cycling | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Track | Field

Alexis Pantoja

Indoor Rowing | Swimming | Track | Field

Chris Parks

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Swimming | Track | Wheelchair Basketball | Field

Jack Peko

Indoor Rowing | Precision Air Sports | Field

Jeffrey Peters

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Swimming | Track | Field

Adam Proctor

Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Sitting Volleyball | Swimming | Track | Field

Alexander Robison

Archery | Precision Air Sports | Track | Wheelchair Rugby

Victoria Rollin

Cycling | Swimming | Track

Noah Rydesky

Swimming | Track | Field

Avery Short

Cycling | Swimming | Track | Wheelchair Rugby

Jason Smith

Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Wheelchair Rugby | Field

Noah Strunk

Cycling | Swimming | Track

Derrick Thompson

Archery | Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Sitting Volleyball | Track | Wheelchair Basketball | Field

Meleste Togia

Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Sitting Volleyball | Field

Janmiguel TorresCruz

Cycling | Sitting Volleyball | Swimming | Wheelchair Rugby | Field

Michael Villagran

Cycling | Sitting Volleyball | Swimming | Track | Wheelchair Basketball | Wheelchair Rugby | Field

Anna Walker

Cycling | Swimming | Track

Hannah Wright

Archery | Cycling | Indoor Rowing | Powerlifting | Precision Air Sports | Swimming | Track | Field