Marina was born in Buenos Aires Argentina, has been living for the past 15 years in South Florida. She became a US citizen in 2012 and currently resides in Weston Florida. She is 26 years old and works at Runner’s Depot in Aventura in retail and is the manager of the Uncle Bernies Amusement Park. She has been an athlete most of her life: cross country, Track and Field, basketball, tennis, and cheer‐ leading. She started running in Argentina in school competitions and stopped when moved to the US. Marina started running in 2007 as part of the Track and Field team at Cypress Bay High School. She was part if that team for three seasons. Her events were the 100m, 200m, 4×100m, 400m, 4×400m, And triple jump. In 2008 she was part of the Cross Country team for Cypress Bay High School. After graduating from High School Marina continued running with the We run Weston run club every Wednesday and on her own every other day. “Running was helping me with my health and to keep my stress level down.”