Angela Harris

Yeoman First Class Angela Harris joined the Coast Guard in the summer of 1998. She moved to Alaska on Christmas Day in 2005, which was a much colder departure from her upbringing in Georgia. She spent much of her career working with the Arctic Operations Team and raised her four children in Alaska. Her oldest two daughters are now serving in the US Coast Guard as hospitalcorpsmen.

In February 2022, Harris had a chance encounter with a person suffering with mental illness while visiting the Anchorage Lousaac Library that left her with a spinal cord injury. In the midst of her recovery, her US Coast Guard Wounded Warrior care team suggested she try adaptive sports, but she wasn’t ready. By January 2024, she attended her first camp at Port Hueneme, Calif.

“During that camp, I made lifelong friends and learned that with adaptations, I can do anything!”

At the 2024 Warrior Games, Harris will compete in archery, cycling, indoor rowing, powerlifting, track, and wheelchair rugby.