Elizabeth Zaragoza

Mary Elizabeth Zaragoza Guerrini (born 7 December 1968) is an Olympian, an American elite middle distance runner of the 1990s and breast cancer survivor. She is of Mexican-Salvadoran heritage. She competed for San Francisco State University in the middle distance events under Olympic Gold Medalist Head Coach, Harry Marra, as well as in the 1995 USATF National Championships in the women's 5000 metres]] and qualified for the first 5,000 USATF Olympic Trials that was made possible in 1996 held in Atlanta, Georgia — the first time women were allowed to race this Olympic event. Later, after her father named Salvador died tragically she then ran for El Salvador in his honor at the 2004 Summer Olympics.^[1] She is a neurodiversity advocate.