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Emily Ann Oberst (born August 27, 1998) is an American wheelchair basketball player and a member of the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team. She represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics .
The following is the United States roster in the women's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] United States women's national wheelchair basketball team - 2024 Summer Paralympics roster
In November 2023 she competed at the 2023 Parapan American Games in the wheelchair basketball tournament and won a gold medal. [3] As a result, the team earned an automatic bid to the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [4] On March 30, 2024, she was named to Team USA's roster to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [5]
Bailey Grace Moody (born November 16, 2001) is an American wheelchair basketball player and a member of the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team. She represented the United States at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics. [1]
Women's wheelchair basketball Laurie Anne Williams (born 4 February 1992) is a 2.5 point British-Irish wheelchair basketball player who participated at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris representing Great Britain.
The United States women's national wheelchair basketball team began in the mid-1960s. The first women's team to compete alongside men in the Paralympic Games was in the inaugural 1968 tournament. A few years later in 1977, a women's wheelchair basketball division was created in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA). [1]
The 2024 Summer Paralympics women's tournament in Paris began on 29 August and ended on 8 September 2024. [1] [2] [3] The matches were played at the Bercy Arena. [4] This was the fifteenth edition of the tournament since the tournament debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv. [4]
Wheelchair basketball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France was hosted between 29 August to 8 September 2024. It featured men's and women's tournaments. There was a reduced number of teams participating; eight teams in each tournament, four fewer men's teams and two fewer women's teams than in the previous Games. [1]