Sophie Carrigill
 Sophie Carrigill at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing | ||||||||||
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| Nationality |
 United Kingdom | |||||||||
| Born | 19 January 1994 | |||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | |||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||
| Disability class | 1.0 | |||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's team | |||||||||
| Club |
Leeds Spiders Coyotes | |||||||||
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Sophie Carrigill (born 19 January 1994) is a 1.0 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.
Biography
Sophie Carrigill was born on 19 January 1994.[1] She attended Wakefield Girls' High School, where she played netball, hockey and tennis. During a swimming trip in the United States in 2010, she was a passenger in a car that crashed into a tree. Despite being the only person in the vehicle wearing a seat belt, she suffered terrible injuries. She spent two months in hospital, where her spleen and gall bladder were removed. Her kidney was damaged, and she fractured her T6 thoracic vertebrae,[1][2] leaving her paralysed from the waist down. She subsequently spent two months in rehabilitation in the spinal unit at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.[2][3]
Carrigill took up playing wheelchair basketball. Within a year of playing her first game, she was selected to represent the eventual silver medallists Yorkshire in the U19 event at The Lord’s Taverners National Junior Championships in 2012.She played for the Leeds Spiders in Divisions 1 and 3 of the BWB National League, and the Coyotes in the Standard Life GB Women’s National League.[1] She was chosen to carry the Olympic torch when it passed through Dewsbury in June 2012,[2] received the Harry Mills Team Maker Award at the Youth Sport Trust National Talent Orientation Camp in 2013,[1] and was awarded the ICAP Beckwith Scholarship. That year she took her A-levels in Psychology, Physical Education, and English Language, and entered the University of Worcester, where she studied Sports Psychology.[1]
In April 2013, Carrigill made her international debut in a tournament against the Netherlands.[4] She went on to represent Britain at the European Championships in Frankfurt later the same year, winning bronze, and was captain of the team at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto the following year.[1] She played in the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing,[5] winning gold.[6]
Achievements
- 2013: Bronze at European Championships (Frankfurt, Germany) [1]
- 2014: Fifth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship (Toronto, Canada)
- 2015: Gold at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Beijing, China) [6]
- 2015: Bronze at the European Championships (Worcester, England) [7]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Sophie Carrigill". British Wheelchair Basketball. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Sporty Sophie gets Back Up". Wakefield Express. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ↑ "Pinderfields spinal injuries unit inspires runners after treating Olympic hopeful Sophie Carrigill". Wakefield Express. 16 February 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ↑ "Sophie makes international debut for GB Wheelchair Basketball Squad". Wakefield Girls' High School. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ↑ "Great Britain Team announced for 2015 Women’s U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships". British Wheelchair Basketball. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- 1 2 "Great Britain crowned Women's U25 World Champions!". British Wheelchair Basketball. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ↑ "Germany earn 10th women's European Wheelchair Basketball Championship title as hosts Britain win men's gold". Inside the Games. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
External links
- "Sophie tells her story of Spinal Cord Injury". Retrieved 3 July 2015. (Video)
- Sophie Carrigill - University of Worcester on YouTube 16 April 2015 (Video)