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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
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Women's wheelchair basketball
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Wheelchair basketball
Wheelchair Basketball World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Women's wheelchair basketball
Bronze medal – third place 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 from years 7 to 10 and Thornbury High School in years 11 and 12. She then attended LaTrobe University where she obtained a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Masters in occupational therapy. She works as an occupational therapist and has a son, Alex. As of 2012, she lives in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg West.

Wheelchair basketball

Carter challenging for the ball in a game against the USA at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games

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

She has been supported by the Australian Sports Commission's Direct Athlete Support (DAS) program since 2009. In 2012, she trained at Aqualink-Box Hill, Royal Talbot Rehab Centre-Kew, and YMCA- Kew.

National team

Carter first competed in the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, the Gliders, in 1992 in a precursor tournament in London for the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics, in which she also participated. She was a member of the team that won a bronze medal at the 1994 World Championships. At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, her team finished fourth, losing to the United States 41–30 in the bronze medal game at the Omni in front of a crowd of 5,033. Carter led Australia in scoring with 12 points in the bronze medal game.

In 1998, she won a bronze medal with the team at the World Championships. She participated at the 1998 Gold Cup in Sydney, where she was Australia's second-leading scorer at the event with 30 points. 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 scored a layup with 16 seconds left in the match that brought the score to 51-50.

She won a silver medal as part of her team at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. During group play at the games, she scored 12 points in a 38–26 victory against the 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 continuous passive motion machine getting treatment. Nine operations were required to treat the elbow. She had to pay most of the costs for treatment herself as the Australian Paralympic Committee would not cover them due to her preexisting tedonitis. 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. Before 2000, she had been mostly coached by national team coach Peter Corr.

She took up the sport again following the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and having watched the national team play; this re-ignited her interest in playing the sport competitively. 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 be selected. 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. She 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.

Performance

Team Date/Time Opposition Min FGM — FGA 3PM - 3PA FTM — FTA OR DR TR AS ST BL TO PFS Pts Ref
Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team 17-Jul-12 China 20:09 0 - 3 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 1 0 1 0
Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team 18-Jul-12 Japan 14:53 2 - 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 4
Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team 20-Jul-12 China 13:59 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 0
Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team 21-Jul-12 Germany 4:49 1 - 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Team Competition Season M FGM-A FG% 3PM-A 3P% FTM-A FT% TOT AST PTS Ref
Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team Gliders World Challenge Default 4 3-Jul 42.9 0 0 1.3 0.5 1.5
Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team Gliders v Japan Default 3 1-Feb 50 0 0 1 1 0.7
Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team Gliders Squad 2011 2011 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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 2008, she played 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.

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.

Competition Season M FGM-A FG% 3PM-A 3P% FTM-A FT% TOT AST PTS Ref
WNWBL 2009 2009 17 38 - 117 32.5 1 0.0 10 - 21 47.6 3.5 2.4 5.1
WNWBL 2010 2010 4 6 - 13 46.2 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.3 3.0
WNWBL 2011 2011 18 42 - 81 51.9 0.0 1 - 3 33.3 2.1 1.3 4.7
WNWBL 2012 2012 13 29 - 63 46.0 0.0 0.0 2.8 1.5 4.5

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.

Date/Time Opposition Min FGM — FGA 3PM - 3PA FTM — FTA OR DR TR AS ST BL TO PFS Pts Ref
3 Jun 11 To Be Active Western Stars 25:20 1 - 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
4 Jun 11 Sydney University Flames 25:40 2 - 5 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 4
4 Jun 11 Stacks Goudkamp Bears 26:56 2 - 6 0 1 - 1 3 3 6 5 0 0 1 1 5
5 Jun 11 Minecraft Comets 19:38 2 - 3 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 4
2 Jul 11 Stacks Goudkamp Bears 28:24 6 - 8 0 0 - 2 3 3 6 1 0 0 1 1 12
2 Jul 11 Minecraft Comets 27:58 3 - 4 0 0 1 4 5 1 1 0 2 0 6
3 Jul 11 Sydney University Flames 22:42 4 - 6 0 0 0 1 1 3 2 0 1 1 8
3 Jul 11 To Be Active Western Stars 38:55 0 - 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 2 4 0
6 Aug 11 Stacks Goudkamp Bears 25:53 3 - 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
6 Aug 11 To Be Active Western Stars 26:21 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
7 Aug 11 Sydney University Flames 26:06 2 - 3 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 4
7 Aug 11 Minecraft Comets 28:13 1 - 5 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 3 2 2
20 Aug 11 Stacks Goudkamp Bears 22:09 2 - 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
20 Aug 11 Sydney University Flames 31:06 1 - 2 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 2
21 Aug 11 To Be Active Western Stars 20:56 5 - 5 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 2 10
21 Aug 11 Minecraft Comets 27:18 2 - 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 3 4
23 Sep 11 To Be Active Western Stars 40:00 2 - 8 0 0 1 2 3 2 1 0 0 0 4
25 Sep 11 Sydney University Flames 39:07 4 - 7 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 8

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