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Renee Del Colle
Renee del Colle (born in either 1967 and 1968) is a Canadian wheelchair basketball player who played for the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team in international competition. She won two Paralympic gold medals representing the women's national wheelchair basketball squad at both the 1996 Summer Paralympics and the 2000 Summer Paralympics as well as two victories in the final of the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in each of 1994 and 1998. Biography Del Colle was born in either 1967 and 1968, and comes from Calgary, Alberta. Until the age of 12, she played regularly organized basketball in high school in Edmonton but stopped being involved in the sport following injury and illness and failed to be drafted in the Canada women's national under-19 basketball team, Canada national junior women's basketball squad. This was before Del Colle was diagnosed with the incurable autoimmune disease known as lupus in which the antibodies in her blood attack separate organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Calgary is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in the transitional area between the Rocky Mountain Foothills and the Canadian Prairies, about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately north of the Canada–United States border. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Calgary's economy includes activity in the energy, financial services, film and television, transportation and logistics, technology, manufacturing, aerospace, health and wellness, reta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
