Tige Simmons

Tige Simmons

2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Simmons
Personal information
Full name Tige Arthur Simmons
Nationality  Australia
Born 5 May 1977

Tige Arthur Simmons, OAM[1] (born 5 May 1977) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He became a paraplegic due to a motorbike accident.[2] He was part of the gold medal winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team [3] at the 2008 Summer Paralympics,[4] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. [1] He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship [5][6] that won a gold medal.[7] He plays his club basketball for the Brisbane Spinning Bullets in Queensland. He plays as a guard and is classified as a 1.0 player.[5] In 2010, he was playing club basketball with the Brisbane Spinning Bullets.[8]

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)". ABC News. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  2. "Tige Simmons". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  3. McGarry, Andrew (4 September 2008). "Event guide: Wheelchair basketball". ABC. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  4. "Basketball Chronology". Basketball Australia. 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  5. 1 2 "Basketball Australia : 2010 WC Team". Basketball Australia. 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  6. "Newsletter 2010 July 2010". Australian Athletes With a Disability. July 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  7. "Rollers Int History". Basketball Australia. 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  8. "FOUR NSW TEAM REPRESENTATIVES NAMED IN ROLLERS TEAM TO PLAY ENGLAND" (PDF). New South Wales Basketball. 29 June 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  9. "Men's Wheelchair Basketball Results". London 2012 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 9 September 2012.


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