David Eng and Team Canada make a grand entrance at the opening ceremonies, Cindy Ouellet and Canada’s women’s wheelchair basketball team take on Great Britain on Day 1, we discuss the fallout from Russia’s Paralympic ban, we take a special look at para-canoeist Erica Scarff, and much more.
When Nik Goncin takes to the court for his first Paralympics this September, he won’t only take pride in playing for his country, but also for two of the people cheering him on from the…
The Mattamy Athletic Centre is home to the Ryerson Rams. It is also the host venue for basketball and wheelchair basketball in this summer’s Pan Am / Parapan Am Games, during which it will be known as the Ryerson Athletic Centre.
The sound of clashing metal and the smell of burning rubber filled the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, last week, as members of Canada’s Wheelchair Basketball Team joined the 2015 Americas wheelchair basketball challenge. David Eng is co-captain of the Canadian team. “It’s the first time that we actually have the top 12 guys of our program together, being able to compete together against the teams that we are going to face in the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games,” Eng said.
Sledge hockey or wheelchair basketball? It was a choice Corin Metzger was faced with. Her main love was sledge hockey but she knew she had to make a decision as to which sport she was going to focus her time. Metzger, who was four years old when she first picked up a basketball, chose hardwood over ice.
Nearly 21 years ago, a bullet fired from a gun in Somalia cracked through the air and ricocheted into Abdi Dini’s back.
It pierced his spinal cord between his shoulder blades, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. For life.
With tension building from an evenly contested game over the weekend early in the fourth quarter, the Canadian men’s wheelchair basketball team put together run that Australia could never match. Canada was golden, again, taking…
In 2000, Carol Diefenbacher’s son Brandon Wagner was involved in a car accident. He was the only one who survived but the crash left him paralyzed. Wagner, now 28, is set to represent Canada in wheelchair basketball on the Paralympic stage this summer in London.
In 2000, Carol Diefenbacher’s son Brandon Wagner was the only survivor of a car crash that left him paralyzed. “Brandon said after his accident, ‘You know mom, you’ve always taught us that everything in life happens for a reason,’ ” she recalled. “I felt like I had just been punched in the stomach.”