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The National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL) is Australia's premier male wheelchair basketball league. It was established in 1988. [1]The competition seasons in 2020 and 2021 were not completed due to the COVID-19 pandemic with no team declared the winner for either season.
Australia has competed at every men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the Paralympic Games except 1964. [1] [2] [3] Kevin Coombs was Australia's first captain of the men's wheelchair basketball team. The Rollers qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics by winning the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament and finished sixth. [4]
Robert Alexander "Sandy" Blythe, OAM [1] [2] (24 February 1962 – 18 November 2005) was an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He became a paraplegic due to a car accident in 1981, and went on to participate in the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at four Paralympic Games, captaining the gold medal-winning team at the ...
Wheelchair Twin Basketball is a major variant of wheelchair basketball. [16] This version is supposed by the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation, [16] and played in Japan. [17] Twin basketball has a three-point classification system based on the evaluation of the mobility of people with spinal cord injuries. In this ...
Australian women's wheelchair basketballer Amanda Carter challenging for the ball in a game against the US at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. Wheelchair basketball retains most major rules and scoring of basketball, and maintains a 10-foot basketball hoop and standard basketball court.
This classification is for wheelchair basketball. [1] Classification for the sport is done by the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. [2] Classification is extremely important in wheelchair basketball because when players' point totals are added together, they cannot exceed fourteen points per team on the court at any time. [3]
He was introduced to wheelchair basketball through attending ‘come and try’ day at the Herb Graham Recreation Centre organised by Rebound WA. [4] He was selected to play for the Perth Wheelcats in Australia's National Wheelchair Basketball League and this led him to be offered a University of Arizona scholarship to join their wheelchair ...
Alcott plays in the Quad category of wheelchair tennis, which "is for athletes with additional restrictions in the playing arm, which limits the ability to handle the racquet and manoeuvre the wheelchair". [15] Alcott won his first Grand Slam singles title at the 2015 Australian Open and first Grand Slam doubles title at the 2018 Australian ...