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Australia’s women’s wheelchair basketball side, the Gliders, are primed to make their return to Paralympic competition at Tokyo 2020, nine years after winning the silver medal at the London Paralympics.…

Following a serious accident in which she crushed her spinal cord and fractured her skull, Shelley Cronau found herself watching the 2008 Paralympics. It was then that she decided to…

Sarah Vinci started her basketball career in 2006 and began playing in the WNWBL in 2009 with the Perth Western Stars. She was named the 1-point MVP in 2016 and…

An up-and-comer in the Gliders squad, Natalie Alexander has already visited Japan twice with the national team, recently winning a bronze medal at the 2016 Osaka Cup to follow up…

In her previous sporting life, Hannah Dodd was an elite equestrian rider, the top-ranked Australian in her event and class. In 2012 she competed at the London Games and finished…

Georgia Munro-Cook attended Newtown High School of the Performing Arts before going to the University of Sydney where she wrote a thesis on “The WNBA, the Anti-Women Backlash, and the…

Bree Mellberg was a national junior champion in diving and represented Australia at the FINA world junior diving championships in 2008. After switching to wheelchair basketball, she made her international…

Amber Merritt is a 4.5-point classified wheelchair basketballer who began her athletic career as a swimmer before being recruited to basketball by the legendary coach Frank Ponta. Amber started playing…

Para-swimmer Braedan Jason has been added to the Australian Paralympic Team for the Tokyo Games after the International Paralympic Committee granted an additional place in the squad for Jason. After…