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Amanda Carter

2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Carter
Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1964-07-16) 16 July 1964 (age 60) Melbourne
Medal record Wheelchair basketball Paralympic Games 2000 Sydney Women's wheelchair basketball 2012 London Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair Basketball World Championship 1994 Women's wheelchair basketball 1998 Women's wheelchair basketball

Amanda Carter (born 16 July 1964) is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player. Diagnosed with transverse myelitis at the age of 24, she began playing wheelchair basketball in 1991 and participated in the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, the Gliders, at three Paralympics from 1992 to 2000. An injury in 2000 forced her to withdraw from the sport, but she came back to the national team in 2009. She was a member of the team that represented Australia and won silver at the 2012 London Paralympics.

Personal

Carter was born on 16 July 1964 in Melbourne. In 1989, at the age of 24, she was diagnosed with transverse myelitis after a bout of chicken pox.

She spent her childhood living in Banyule. As a youngster, she played netball. She went to Olympic Village Primary School. She attended Latrobe High School for years 7 to 10, before going to Thornbury High School for years 11 and 12. She then attended LaTrobe University where she earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in occupational therapy. She then earned a Master in Occupational Therapy from LaTrobe. In 2000, she lived in Heidelberg West. In 2004, she was working at a hospital. She works as an occupational therapist and has a son, Alex. As of 2012, she lives in Heidelberg West, Victoria.

Wheelchair basketball

Carter began playing wheelchair basketball in 1991 as part of her rehabilitation. She is a guard and 1 point player. Prior to her 2000 accident, she was a 2 point player.

Going into the 2000 Summer Paralympics, she had tendonitis. Following the situation at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, she quit the sport and had not returned by 2004. Prior to the 2000, she had been mostly coached by national team coach Peter Corr. She took up the sport again following the 2008 Summer Paralympics and having watched the national team play; this re-ignited her interest in playing the sport competitively.

In 2011/2012, the Australian Sports Commission gave her a AUD$17,000 grant as part of their Direct Athlete Support (DAS) program. In 2012, she trained at Aqualink-Box Hill, Royal Talbot Rehab Centre-Kew, and YMCA- Kew.

National team

She was a member of the national team at the first Gold Cup held in 1990 in St. Etinne with an Australian team that included Donna Ritchie and Liesel Tesch, and that was coached by Peter Corr. She participated in the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, the Gliders, in 1992 in a precursor tournament before the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics. She was a member of the team that earned a bronze medal at the 1994 World Championships. In 1998, she won a bronze medal with the team at the World Championships.

She participated at the Sydney hosted 1998 Gold Cup. She was Australia's second leading scorer at the event, with 30 points scored in the competition.

In the year and a half before the start of the 2000 Summer Paralympics, she played in a number of test series with the team, including a five series in July 2000 in Sydney where Australia had 2 wins and 3 losses. The two Australian wins were the first time Canada had lost in ten years. She also participated in five game test series against the Netherlands, the United States and Japan where her team won all games in those series. In the team's 52-50 win over Canada in one of those games, she scores a layup with 16 seconds left in the match that brought the score to 51-50.

She was selected to play in a four game test series in Canberra against Japan women's national wheelchair basketball team held in March 2002, the first Australian hosted international for the team since the 2000 Summer Paralympics. She was selected to play at the 2002 World Cup event in Japan.

Because of an injury, she was away from the team for a while. She returned to the Gliders in 2009. That year, she competed in the Four Nations competition in Canada, one of six players who played for the Dandenong Rangers in the WNWBL. She also participated in the Japan Friendly Series. She was selected to participate in a national team training camp in 2010. In 2010, she was part of the gold medal winning team at the Osaka Cup, one of six Victorians to earn selection. In a 2012 friendly series against Japan, she played in three games, where she averaged 0.7 points per game, 1.0 assists per game and 1.0 rebounds per game. She played in four games during the 2012 Gliders World Challenge, where she averaged 1.5 points per game, 0.5 assists per game, and 1.3 rebounds per game. She was coached by John Triscari in 2012 when with the national team.

Paralympics

She was part of the team at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, and 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, where she won a silver medal with the team. In 1996, her team finished fourth, losing to the United States in the bronze medal game at the Omni in front of a crowd of 5,033. The score was 41-30. Carter led Australia in scoring with 12 points in the bronze medal game.

She missed a warm up game against the New South Wales State team prior to the start of the 2000 Games. Her team played a practice game against Germany women's national wheelchair basketball team that Carter missed because of an illness she picked up during a team training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport that took place a week before the start of the Games. Half of her team had respiratory infections prior to the start of the Games. She did not attend the opening ceremonies. During group play, she scored 12 points in a 38-26 victory against Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team, which was the most points she had ever scored in an international match. At one point, she made four baskets in a row. Her team made the gold medal after beating the Japan women's national wheelchair basketball team by a score of 45-33. Going into the gold medal game, Carter had missed the previous day's training session, and had an elbow injury. Her team lost the match to Canada before a crowd of 16,389 spectators, with Carter scoring only four points in the first half.

During the match, she was knocked onto her right side, and her right arm became trapped underneath her wheelchair, causing a tendon in her elbow to rupture. The Canadian player who knocked her down, in a play she did not likely see as problematic, assisted her back into her wheelchair following the fall, but Carter lost considerable mobility in her right arm, and required an elbow reconstruction. She spent 11 weeks on a CPM machine getting treatment. Nine surgeries were required in treating the elbow. She had to pay most of the costs for treatment herself as the Australian Paralympic Committee did not cover them. The organisation's high performance manager told her it was rare for anyone to get compensation for an injury while playing sport. Carter carried a lot of anger towards the Canadian in the first year following her accident. By 2004, she still could not fully flex her hand. Following her accident, she occasionally required the use of an electric wheelchair because of the severity of her injury, and required the assistance of Council Home Care to clean her home.

Carter missed the next two Paralympics, but was part of the silver medal team for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. She was the oldest member of the team, and the only member of the Gliders who had participated in the 1992, 1996 or 2000 Paralympics. In the gold medal game against Germany women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she played 0 minutes. In the first game of the 2012 Paralympics against Brazil, which her team won 52-50, she played 5:39 minutes. She scored 0 points against the Brazil women's national wheelchair basketball team. She had 0 rebounds against Brazil. In the team's second game of pool play, where they lost to Canada 50-57, she played 0:0 minutes. In the team's third game of pool play against the Netherlands women's national wheelchair basketball team that her team won 58-49, she played 0:0 minutes. In her team's quarterfinal 62-37 victory over Mexico women's national wheelchair basketball team, she played 18:38 minutes. In the quarterfinals, she scored 5 points. Her team met the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team in the semifinals, where Australia won 40-39 and she played 0:0 minutes.

Performance

Club

In 2000, she played for the Whittlesea City Pacers in the National Wheelchair Basketball League.

She played for the Victorian Women in 2000 when they finished first in the NRMA National League final after they defeated the Hills Hornets 51-50. At the half, her team was winning by 10 points, with Carter being a major reason why. Her team defeated the Adelaide Storm 56-24 and the Northern Premiers 48-35 in their road to the finals.

In 2009, she played 17 games for the Rangers where she averaged 5.1 points per game. She averaged 2.4 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game this year. In 2010, she played 4 games for her Victory where she averaged 3.0 points per game. She averaged 0.3 assists and 3.0 rebounds per game this year. She was with the team in 2012, and named the WNWBL MVP 1 Pointer and to the league's All Star Five. She played in 13 games that season where she averaged 4.5 points per game. She averaged 1.5 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game this year.

2008

She returned to the game in 2008, playing for the Dandenong Rangers in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL), a team she had participated in before her injury. That year she received a player award from the Dandenong Rangers and was named the Most Valuable Player in her disability classification in the WNWBL.

In the second round, the Dandenong Rangers defeated the Western Stars 53-47. Carter played an important role in her team's victory.

2011

She played for the Rangers in 2011, playing in 18 games where she averaged 4.7 points per game. She averaged 1.3 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game this year. Her team won the WNWBL title in 2011.

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v t e Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team – 2012 Summer Paralympics
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 Sarah Vinci 5 Cobi Crispin 6 Bridie Kean 7 Amanda Carter 8 Tina McKenzie 9 Leanne Del Toso 10 Clare Nott 11 Kylie Gauci 12 Shelley Chaplin 13 Sarah Stewart 14 Katie Hill 15 Amber Merritt Coach: John Triscari

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• Paralympic wheelchair basketball players of Australia
• Wheelchair basketball players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
• Wheelchair basketball players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
• Wheelchair basketball players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
• Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
• Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
• Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors
• Sportswomen from Melbourne
• 1964 births
• Living people