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WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL
- IN A LEAGUE OF IT’S OWN
BY AMY STIRLING
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Amy plays for Lothian Phoenix and Scottish Women Warriors.
The country hosts five teams who play in basketballscotland’s SBC League; Grampian Flyers (Aberdeen), Dundee Dragons (Dundee), Lothian Phoenix (Armadale), St Mirren Warriors and Women Warriors (both based in Glasgow). St Mirren Warriors and Lothian Phoenix also play in British Wheelchair Basketball’s National League
Lothian Phoenix are well established in developing wheelchair basketball and Head Coach Niall Ritchie highlighted the importance of the league in the club’s development:
“Our aim for this season is to beat last year ’ s finish of 4th place The Scottish League is important for us to develop our juniors moving up from the U15s and new players We are looking to show improvement as the players take ownership of the team with a 3rd place finish or better ”
The sport itself is mixed gender and very inclusive of ability All you really need is a love of the game!
This year basketballscotland have partnered with CliniMed, a family owned British company which distributes a range of innovated stoma and continence products, creating the ‘CliniMed Wheelchair Basketball League’ to meet needs of the growing number of clubs. Mike Ferrier, Product Specialist at CliniMed has formed a strong rapport with basketballscotland over the past year working with St Mirren Warriors player-coach Gary Davidson. Mike says, “We are delighted to be in partnership with basketballscotland and look forward to a successful relationship together ”
January 27th saw the aforementioned ‘basketballscotland CliniMed Wheelchair Basketball Cup Final’ come to Oriam in Edinburgh, where Lothian Phoenix and St Mirren Warriors came head to head in an exciting game, seeing St Mirren Warriors victorious in winning the Cup It was a weekend packed with basketball, as the event was held alongside running basketball cup finals, which helped to raise the profile of the sport It was an electrifying weekend with not only family, friends
