Joy Haizelden Explained

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Joy Haizelden
Club:Coventry Wheelchair Basketball Academy
Universityteam:University of Alabama (2022 - present)
Birth Date:1 December 1998
Country:Great Britain
Sport:Wheelchair basketball
Disability Class:2.5

Joy Haizelden (born 1 December 1998) is a 2.5 point British wheelchair basketball player who was the youngest player to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.

Biography

Joy Haizelden was born on 1 December 1998.[1] Joy was abandoned outside an orphanage in native China. She were adopted by an English couple, Jim and Margaret Haizelden, who took her to live in Southampton, in Hampshire, in 2005. She was a student at The Kings School. Joy could not participate in physical education, so Jim went looking for ways to keep her fit and active. A friend invited him to bring Joy to his wheelchair basketball club.

Haizelden is classified as a 2.5 point player. She made her international debut in the Standard Life Head to Head series against the Netherlands in 2013. This was followed by the U25 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships, where Team Great Britain won the silver medal. She was named the Peter Jackson Young Female Player of the Year at The Lord's Taverners National Junior Championships in July 2013,[2] and was part of England South's team at the Sainsbury 2013 School Games, winning bronze.[1]

At the age of 15, she was the youngest player chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.[1] Team Great Britain came fifth, its best ever result at the World Championship.[3] The following year, she was part of Team Great Britain at the Osaka Cup in Japan in February,[4] winning silver,[5] and at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing in July,[6] winning gold.[7] The senior team then defeated France to take bronze in the 2015 European Championship in Worcester. In May 2016, she was named as part of the team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.[8] The British team produced its best ever performance at the Paralympics, making it all the way to the semi-finals, but lost to the semi-final to the United States, and then the bronze medal match to the Netherlands.[9]

Achievements

NWBA intercollegiate

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Joy Haizelton . . 5 July 2015 .
  2. Web site: Round Up: The Lord's Taverners National Junior Championships 2013 . . 5 July 2015 .
  3. News: Joy's raising profile of wheelchair basketball . Hampshire Chronicle . Peter . Howard . 28 August 2014 . 5 July 2015 .
  4. Web site: GB Women's Team announced for the Osaka Cup 2015 . . 5 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924021232/http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/news/gb-womens-team-announced-for-the-osaka-cup-2015/ . 24 September 2015 . dead .
  5. Web site: Osaka Cup 2015 . . 5 July 2015 .
  6. Web site: Great Britain Team announced for 2015 Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships . . 5 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924021039/http://www.gbwba.org.uk/GBWBA/index.cfm/news/great-britain-team-announced-for-2015-womene28099s-u25-world-wheelchair-basketball-championships/ . 24 September 2015 . dead .
  7. Web site: Great Britain crowned Women's U25 World Champions! . . 6 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924021243/http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/news/great-britain-crowned-womens-u25-world-champions/ . 24 September 2015 . dead .
  8. Web site: British women's wheelchair basketball team named for Rio . 13 May 2016 . . 6 September 2016.
  9. News: University of Worcester-based GB women's wheelchair basketball team miss out on bronze medal to dominant Dutch in Rio Paralympics . . Geoff . Berkeley . 17 September 2016 . 18 September 2016 .
  10. Web site: Germany earn 10th women's European Wheelchair Basketball Championship title as hosts Britain win men's gold . 6 September 2015 . Inside the Games . 9 September 2015 .
  11. Web site: Summary - Wheelchair Basketball . International Paralympic Committee . 11 February 2017 .
  12. Web site: Joy Haizelden . British Wheelchair Basketball . 1 September 2018 .
  13. Web site: NED v GBR . FIBA LiveStats . 1 September 2018 .
  14. https://www.iwbf-europe.org/event/ecwa-2019-2/
  15. https://www.iwbf-europe.org/event/ecmwa-2023/
  16. Web site: Women's Wheelchair Basketball Wins 8th National Championship – University of Alabama News The University of Alabama . 23 March 2022 . 2023-04-09 . en-US.
  17. Web site: NWNA . 2023-03-11 . THREE-PEAT! Alabama Crimson Tide Dominate En Route to 2023 National Championship . 2023-04-09 . National Wheelchair Basketball Association . en-us.
  18. Web site: NWBA . 2022-03-17 . 2022 NWBA Intercollegiate Division Award Winners and All-Americans . 2023-04-09 . National Wheelchair Basketball Association . en-us.
  19. Web site: Division . NWBA Women's Intercollegiate . 2023-03-14 . 2023 NWBA Women's Intercollegiate Division Award Winners and All-Americans Announced . 2023-04-09 . National Wheelchair Basketball Association . en-us.

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