National wheelchair basketball squads announced
Four female and five male athletes from the NSW Institute of Sport have been named on the 2021 Australian senior wheelchair basketball squads.
They will be vying for selection in the final teams to represent Australia at the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, set to take place from August 24 – September 5.
Jessica Cronje, Maryanne Laru, Georgia Munro-Cook and Victoria Simpson have all been named in the Aussie Gliders squad, whilst Michael Auprince, Phil McPhail, Luke Pople, Shawn Russell and Brett Stibners have been named in the Aussie Rollers.
The squads will continue their preparation for Tokyo when they assemble for a camp at Basketball Australia’s Centre of Excellence at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra from January 28 – February 4.
Head coach of both the Gliders and Rollers Craig Friday is looking forward to the upcoming camp.
“With a little over six months until the Paralympic Games, this camp is extremely important to our Tokyo preparations.”
The 2021 Gliders Squad:
| Squad Member Name | Current Home City/Institute Scholarship |
| Natalie Alexander | Perth / WAIS |
| Georgia Bishop-Cash* | Brisbane / QAS |
| Jessica Cronje | Sydney / NSWIS |
| Shelley Cronau* | Gold Coast & Spain / QAS |
| Natalie Curtis | Townsville / QAS |
| Hannah Dodd | Sunshine Coast / QAS |
| Mary Friday | Perth / WAIS |
| Georgia Inglis | Perth / WAIS |
| Jacqueline Lane | Perth / WAIS |
| Maryanne Latu | Sydney / NSWIS |
| Isabel Martin | Melbourne / VIS |
| Bree Mellberg | Melbourne / VIS |
| Amber Merritt | Perth / WAIS |
| Georgia Munro-Cook | Sydney / NSWIS |
| Sonya Newman | Darwin, Northern Territory |
| Jade O’Sullivan | Perth / WAIS |
| Taishar Ovens | Perth / WAIS |
| Ella Sabljak | Gold Coast / QAS |
| Victoria Simpson | Parkes, New South Wales / NSWIS |
| Sarah Vinci | Perth / WAIS |
The 2021 Rollers Squad:
| Squad Member Name | Current Home City/Institute Scholarship |
| Michael Auprince | Wetzlar, Germany / NSWIS |
| Jordan Bartley | Brisbane / QAS |
| Jannik Blair | Bilbao, Spain & Horsham / WAIS |
| Jontee Brown | Bendigo / VIS |
| Lachlin Dalton | Brisbane / QAS |
| Steven Elliott | Gympie / QAS |
| Phil Evans | Perth / WAIS |
| Jake Kavanagh | Perth / WAIS |
| Tristan Knowles | Melbourne / VIS |
| Bill Latham | Madrid, Spain / QAS |
| C.J McCarthy-Grogan | Darwin / NTIS |
| Thomas McHugh | Perth / WAIS |
| John McPhail | Dallas, USA & Sydney / NSWIS |
| Matthew McShane | Gold Coast / QAS |
| Shaun Norris (captain) | Perth / WAIS |
| Luke Pople | Wollongong / NSWIS |
| Tom O’Neill-Thorne | Darwin / NTIS |
| Frank Pinder | Perth / WAIS |
| Kim Robins | Munich, Germany & Perth / WAIS |
| Shawn Russell | Wollongong / NSWIS |
| Brett Stibners | Wollongong / NSWIS |
| Jeremy Tyndall | Waaia, Victoria / VIS |
| Samuel White | Adelaide / SASI |
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