Sarah Evans
Captain Sarah Evans, U.S. Air Force (retired)
Sarah was commissioned in the Air Force in 2008 after graduating from The Citadel. Her first assignment was to Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana, as the Financial Analyst for the 341st Security Forces Group. She went on to become the Financial Services Officer for the base. Evans then deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan with US Forces Afghanistan in October 2011. While deployed, she served as the program manager for the Afghan Reintegration Program. She earned a Joint Service Achievement Medal for her service in Afghanistan.
In January 2012, doctors at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan discovered a large mass in her left hip. She was medevac’d to San Antonio Military Medical Center where she was diagnosed with a high grade osteosarcoma, or Stage III bone cancer. This eventually led to the amputation of her left leg.
Sarah is an accomplished adaptive athlete, participating in a wide range of summer and winter adaptive sports. She won a Warrior Games Bronze Medal for swimming and three Invictus Games medals for cycling, shot put and discus. She has also climbed Mt Kilimanjaro and completed the very difficult 26.2 mile Bataan Memorial Death March in New Mexico.
Sarah serves as a Move United Ambassador.
Sports
- Adaptive Skiing,
- Swimming,
- Cycling/Adaptive Cycling,
- CrossFit/Adaptive CrossFit
City
- Melbourne
