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Katie Morrow (born 20 September 1999) is a 4.5 point British wheelchair basketball player who was the youngest player selected for Team GB wheelchair basketball team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Biography

Katie Morrow was born on 20 September 1999. She is from County Antrim in Northern Ireland.[1] {{As of|2016}}, she attends Cullybackey College.[2]

As a swimmer she broke the Irish record in her age group in the freestyle relay event in 2012. She was introduced to wheelchair basketball in 2013 by Phil Robinson, the Wheelchair Basketball Performance Officer at Disability Sport Northern Ireland. She was soon playing in the Lord's Taverners Junior League, the BWB National Leagues, the National Junior Championships, the Celtic Cup, and Sainsbury’s School Games. {{As of|2016}}, she is a 4.5 point player,[3] who plays for the Sheffield Steelers in the Women's League and Knights WBC in the National League.[2]

Morrow made her debut with the senior national team at the Continental Clash in 2015,[2] and later that year made her international debut as part of the U25 team at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing,[3][4] where it won gold.[5] This was followed by the European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Worcester, where Great Britain won bronze,[9] and the 2016 Osaka Cup, where it won silver.[6][7] She won the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council Junior Sportsperson of the Year award in March 2016,[3] and in May 2016, she was named as part of Team GB for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.[1] At 16, she was the youngest player on the team.[8] The British team produced its best ever performance at the Paralympics, making it all the way to the semi-finals, but lost to the semi-final to the United States, and then the bronze medal match to the Netherlands.[9]

Achievements

  • 2015: Gold at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Beijing, China)[5]
  • 2015: Bronze at the European Championships (Worcester, England) [10][11]

References

1. ^{{cite news |date=13 May 2016 |newspaper=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/disability-sport/35621008 |title=Paralympic Games: Great Britain's team for Rio 2016 |accessdate=15 May 2016 }}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/the-league/womens-programme/womens-league-201516/all-star-game/team-east/katie-morrow/ |title=Katie Morrow |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=15 May 2016 }}
3. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.ballymenatimes.com/sport/local-sport/sports-awards-wheelchair-basketball-star-katie-enjoys-fantastic-knight-1-7260974 |title=Sports Awards: Wheelchair basketball star Katie enjoys fantastic Knight|newspaper=Ballymena Times |date=9 March 2016 |accessdate=15 May 2016 }}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/GBWBA/index.cfm/news/great-britain-team-announced-for-2015-womene28099s-u25-world-wheelchair-basketball-championships/ |title=Great Britain Team announced for 2015 Women’s U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=3 July 2015 }}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/news/great-britain-crowned-womens-u25-world-champions/ |title=Great Britain crowned Women's U25 World Champions! |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=6 July 2015 }}
6. ^{{cite news |newspaper=Ballymena Guardian |title=Katie in Japan! |date= 11 February 2016 |url=http://www.ballymenaguardian.co.uk/articles/sports/50822/katie-in-japan/ |accessdate=15 May 2016 }}
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.tubpodcast.org/2016/02/gb-push-germany-in-final-take-home-osaka-cup-silver/ |title=GB push Germany in Final, take home Osaka Cup silver |publisher=The Undersized Basketball Podcast |accessdate=15 May 2016 }}
8. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/british-women-s-wheelchair-basketball-team-named-rio |title=British women’s wheelchair basketball team named for Rio |date=13 May 2016 |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |accessdate=15 May 2016 }}
9. ^{{cite news |newspaper=BBC Sport |title=Ballymena Schoolgirl Katie Morrow Misses Out on Rio Medal |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/disability-sport/37383406 |date=16 September 2016 |access-date=18 September 2016 }}
10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1029917/germany-earn-10th-womens-european-wheelchair-basketball-championship-title-as-hosts-britain-win-mens-gold |title=Germany earn 10th women's European Wheelchair Basketball Championship title as hosts Britain win men's gold |publisher=Inside the Games |accessdate=9 September 2015 }}
11. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/disability-sport/33232803 |newspaper=BBC Sport |date=22 June 2015 |title=GB wheelchair basketball name women's squad for Euros |accessdate=16 May 2016 }}

External links

  • {{youtube|cUjkqWv2T6w|#GBProud Katie Morrow}}
{{Great Britain national women's wheelchair basketball team - 2016 Summer Paralympics}}{{Portal bar|Biography|Paralympics|Basketball|Women's sport}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Morrow, Katie}}

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