Basketball

Lucy Robinson

How I Started: As a child I was very sporty and played football at Quorn Football Club as a goalkeeper when I was nine years old. I played in the league with them until I was 12 years old. During this time I was invited to the Leicester City Foxes Goalkeeping Academy, and the dream …

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Leah McDerment

How I started: I started playing Basketball because my older brother played so I had to go along to practise sessions and whatnot. Eventually I joined in on the sidelines mimicking what the players were doing, and then I began playing for an all-girls team every Saturday morning! My Greatest Achievement: My greatest achievement is …

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Corey Samuels

How I started: I first got into Basketball after watching one of my favourite movies, Like Mike. I also saw my brother start playing at the local leisure centre growing up. I was watching and imitating on thew sidelines until the age of five at a Saturday club, and then around two years later I …

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Nate Montgomery

How I started: I started playing Basketball around the age of four years old. My dad was involved int he management of a Basketball team locally, he bought me an indoor hoop with a sponge ball and started coaching me from there. I started playing competitively at nine years old for Sheffield Junior Sharks. My …

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Joe Hart

How I started: My dad was my PE teacher in school, and my older sister also played Basketball, so being at school early in the mornings I had a lot of free time to practice and play. My sister played for a girls’ club and her coach would let me tag along. I joined the …

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Tyler Baines

How I started: I went to a local multi sport club. There were various different sports to take part in but the woman running the club was a wheelchair basketball player, I gave it a try and began training, and after a short while I was invited to county trials for the north west. Within …

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Chris Tawiah

How I started:   I started at the age of 16, having not played Basketball before. I was going to play Football with my friends and a coach spotted me, mentioned my height, and asked if I wanted to give it a go. Right there we played on the park, and I enjoyed it, although …

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Jamell Anderson

How I Started I started playing basketball in my back garden, but I switched and began playing different sports until I started in year 8 when I picked up the sport again. After picking up Basketball again I played for the Nottingham Youth Basketball team until I attended a Team GB trial day with seven …

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Danny Evans

How I Started I was first introduced to Basketball at after-school club in primary school, and from there I fell in love with the game and decided that one day I wanted to play professionally. Shortly after my first coach told me that he saw potential in me and from there I set out to …

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Sophie Carrigill

How I Started I grew up able-bodied, but I was involved in an accident which completely changed my life. I was introduced to wheelchair basketball when I left the hospital. This was the first time I had ever even played Basketball, but everyone made me feel welcome and being with other disabled athletes like myself …

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