Teisha Shadwell

Teisha Shadwell (born 2003)[1] is an Australian 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player. In May 2019, she was part of the Australian Devils U25 team that won silver at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphanburi, Thailand.

Teisha Shadwell
Teisha Shadwell at the Kilsyth Sports Centre in April 2018
Personal information
Born12/March/2003
Clayton, Victoria
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportWheelchair basketball
Disability class4.5
ClubKilsyth Cobras
Medal record
Wheelchair basketball
U25 Women's World Championships
2019 Suphanburi, ThailandWomen's wheelchair basketball
AOZ Paralympic Qualifiers
2019 Pattaya, ThailandWomen's wheelchair basketball

Biography

Teisha Shadwell began playing basketball when she was five years old,[2] and played at the state level when she was nine. She won a Grand Final playing with the Knox Raiders Under 12 team, and was named MVP for that game. She went on to be selected for the Victorian Under 14 and Under 15 state sides.[3][4]

In 2016, Shadwell played with the Knox 14.1 team that won both the Melbourne United Victorian Junior Basketball League (VJBL) Victorian Championship and then, in September 2016, the Australian Under 14 Club Championships in Newcastle. She had been feeling considerable pain, and after the match, CT scans revealed that she had been playing the whole week with breaks in bones in her hand and both her feet. Her hand healed well, but the navicular bone fractures did not.[3] Doctors gave her a ten per cent chance of ever being able to play basketball again.[2] Any further attempt risked serious and permanent injury.[4]

In January 2017, Shadwell turned to playing wheelchair basketball. She made rapid progress. Six weeks later, she was playing with the Kilsyth Cobras in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL), and training with the Australian national team (the Gliders), and the Under 25 national team (the Devils) in preparation for the 2019 Under 25 World Championships.[3] That year she received the WNWBL’s 2017 best new talent award,[5] and Basketball Victoria's Charles Ryan award for Wheelchair Athlete Of The Year.[6] A series of fundraisers, including a campaign on GoFundMe, raised money for a custom-built wheelchair.[3][4]

Shadwell played in the Victorian side in the 2019 Kevin Coombs Cup, and in May 2019, she made her international debut with the Devils at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphanburi, Thailand, where they won silver.[1][7][8]

WNWBL Statistics - Seasons 2017-
Competition Season M FGM-A FG% 3PM-A 3P% FTM-A FT% PTS OFF DEF TOT AST PTS ref
WNWBL 2017 15 64 - 176 36.36 -- -- 19 - 43 44.19 147 2.47 5.47 7.93 0.8 9.8 [9]
WNWBL 2018 15 82 - 192 42.71 -- -- 30 - 69 43.48 194 2.13 9.33 11.47 3.13 12.93 [10]
WNWBL 2019 17 136 - 302 45.03 2 - 8 25.00 26 - 54 48.15 300 3.82 10.88 14.71 3.76 17.65 [11]

References
  1. "Australia". 2019 Women's U25 World Championships. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  2. Egging, Kiel (7 April 2017). "Rowville's Teisha Shadwell fulfilling her basketball dream". Herald Sun. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  3. Potter, Jarrod (24 August 2017). "Teisha Shadwell stars in wheelchair basketball switch". Basketball Victoria. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  4. "Fundraiser by Cindy Shadwell: Teishas Wheelchair Basketball Dream". Gofundme. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  5. "2017 Awards Winners". Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League. Retrieved 2 August 2017 – via SportsTG.
  6. "Basketball Victoria 2017 Award Winners and Wall of Fame Inductees Announced". Knox Basketball. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  7. Shelley, Milly (14 May 2019). "Isabel Martin and Teisha Shadwell make Australian U25 Devils". Basketball Victoria. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  8. "USA crowned 2019 Women's U25 World Champions". 2019 Women's U25 World Championships. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  9. "Player statistics for Teisha Shadwell". SportingPulse. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  10. "Player statistics for Teisha Shadwell". SportingPulse. Retrieved 31 May 2019 – via Google cache.
  11. "Player statistics for Teisha Shadwell". SportingPulse. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
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