​Hoda Elshorbagy is a history graduate from a village in North Egypt who was left completely paralyzed due to a mistake made by a doctor during her polio vaccination when she was eight months old. Despite undergoing 13 surgeries, she was able to regain some of her abilities and started her athletic journey by participating in weightlifting and discus throwing competitions. She discovered her passion for wheelchair racing after watching it during the Paralympics on television in 2016. Hoda overcame several challenges, including language barriers and lack of necessary equipment, to become a successful wheelchair racer. She won several national competitions in Egypt and even secured a grant from the Challenged Athletes Foundation. With the help of Coach Carlos Moleda and Coach Marty Morse, she improved her racing skills and is currently training with Coach Adam Bleakney's team of world-class champions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her ultimate goal is to represent Egypt in the Paralympic Games as the first Egyptian woman in wheelchair racing and to become a coach in the Paralympic sport of wheelchair racing to help people with physical challenges like herself in her home country and all over the world.