Arinn Young (born July 10, 1996) is a Canadian 4.5 point

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player who won a gold medal at the

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Biography

Arinn Young was born in St. Albert, Alberta, on July 10, 1996. She is nicknamed "Juice" due to her practice of drinkling juice boxes during a game. She started playing

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when she was five years old, and went on to win 15 MVP awards and two city championships. She also played other sports, including

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and horse riding, and was placed third in shot-put at the Alberta Track and Field Provincial Championship. An injury while playing lacrosse when she was 14 saw her right knee swell up. It apparently returned to normal but "popped" a number of times over the following year. An MRI revealed an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Her meniscus was damaged and her

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patella The patella, also known as the kneecap, is a flat, rounded triangular bone which articulates with the femur (thigh bone) and covers and protects the anterior articular surface of the knee joint. The patella is found in many tetrapods, such as ...

and

fibula The fibula or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below. It is the smaller of the two bones and, in proportion to its length, the most slender of all the long bones. Its upper extremity i ...

were bone on bone, which causes accelerated wear on the bones. A series of surgical procedures followed. She continued playing basketball with the

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Lady Wolves until 2013, when she severely injured her good knee in the opening game at the North Central Zone Tournament. Young was introduced to

by Max MacMillan, a friend of her father's and a wheelchair basketball coach whose daughter played the sport. Able to walk normally, Young is classified as a

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. She began playing for the Edmonton Inferno in 2012, placing fourth in the Canadian Wheelchair Basketball League Women's National Championship in Richmond, British Columbia, and finished first in the Canadian Women's Championship in Edmonton in 2013. In 2013, she was named to the All Star Five. She joined the U25 national team in 2013, and made her international debut with the senior women's team as the youngest player on the team at the

in July 2014, winning a gold medal. She won silver at the

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in August 2015.

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External links

Interview: Arinn Young (Canada) , 2014 IWBF Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships
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