United States
Maria Mercado
No performance history
I’m a small town Georgia girl living life in LA. Legal assistant by day, CrossFit addict by night. All my life I grew up having pneumonia, every year, no exaggeration, every.single.year. No one really looked into why, I can only assume they figured it was a complication that came with being born premature. When I was 25, while having pneumonia, I fell to the floor gasping for air, barely being able to call for help. After much useless testing, doctors finally realized that I had a birth defect, where one of the arteries from my heart was double the size causing blood to be pumped into my lung. This apparently had been the cause of my “pneumonia”. So many years of this, eventually turned my lung into one massive scar tissue, and needed to be removed. After 2 surgeries (one to remove the lung, and one heart surgery to cut the enlarged artery into two), I was left with half of one lung gone, whatever is there unable to fully open, and an awesome scar on my back that looks like I won a knife fight. I was an active kid, ran track, played softball, danced, but needless to say, after the surgery, I just couldn’t. Then I found CrossFit. And thanks to my coaches and that functional fitness my stamina has improved greatly and more in the 2 and a half years I’ve been into it, then all of the 10 years since my surgery. I can only imagine what kind of athlete I could be if I had both lungs, but that won’t stop, can’t stop this one lung wonder. Thank you CrossFit!
Open
| Year | Rank Worldwide | Rank by Region | Rank By Country | Rank By Affiliate | ||||
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| 2017 | 62318th Women | 10804th Women (35-39) | 2567th Women Southern California | 437th Women (35-39) Southern California | 38414th Women United States | 7056th Women (35-39) United States | – – | |
| 2016 | 45743rd Women | 3361st Women South East | – – | – – | ||||
| 2011 | 3397th Women | 272nd Women North East | – – | – – | ||||
Benchmark Stats
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Back Squat -- Chad1000x -- Clean and Jerk -- Deadlift -- -
Fight Gone Bad -- Filthy 50 -- Fran -- Grace -- -
Helen -- L1 Benchmark -- Max Pull-ups -- Run 5k -- -
Snatch -- Sprint 400m --