Events: Epee, Foil and Saber
Disability Category: A
Current Residence: Portland, Ore.
Club: NW Fencing and PDX Fencing
Coaches: Christophe Duclos (foil), Cody Mattern (epee) and Charles Randall (saber)
U.S. Ranking: No. 2 (saber), No. 2 (epee), No. 4 (foil)
World Ranking: No. 23 (epee), No. 25 (foil)

Wheelchair World Championship Teams: 2015

Personal: In 2009, Espinosa suffered a catastrophic knee injury playing indoor soccer.  The full lateral dislocation of her knee caused a tibia fracture, torn meniscus, ruptured ACL, PCL and MCL and peroneal nerve damage leaving her with a foot drop. In 2012, she rolled her ankle on the same leg and ruptured her patella tendon. She was left frustrated and unhappy that she could no longer run or compete in able-bodied sports. In 2011, as part of her rehabilitation and commitment to not being stopped by her injury, she walked two legs of the Portland to Coast Relay Walk and climbed to the top of a volcano on Floreana Island in Galapagos. It helped her achieve some goals, but never filled her need for competition.

In 2014, at a NAC in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, she discovered she was eligible for wheelchair fencing due to the nerve damage. She began fencing sabre in October 2014 at PDX Fencing with Coach Charles Randall and teammate Leo Curtis. Once she realized that sabre wasn’t a Paralympic event for women, she began training foil and epee at NW Fencing with Coaches Christophe Duclos, Cody Mattern and Simon Abram. Espinosa is married with two children. Her oldest daughter fences competitively and her youngest is an aspiring circus performer.  She lives in Portland, Oregon and loves traveling. She speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish and a little bit of French.