TORONTO—When Kelly Scanlan first signed up for the Invictus Games after serving in Afghanistan, she didn’t realize the sporting event for wounded soldiers would pull her out of years of physical and mental injuries.
Scanlan first joined the Canadian Forces at the age of 16 and started training to deploy to Afghanistan at 18. During her training she suffered her first injury, a completely torn ligament in her leg. She decided to push through the pain and deploy anyway, and at age 19 she left to spend eight months on tour as an infantry soldier in Afghanistan.
