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Donna Burns OAM is an Australian basketball player with an intellectual disability who won gold as a member of th
Pearls
in the 1992 Madrid Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap. Burns is an Indigenous Australian and descendant of the Yorta Yorta.
Pearls
in the 1992 Madrid Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap. Born in 1972 in
Burns alternated from playing netball to basketball from the age of eight. As a teenager she focussed on basketball at the encouragement of her coach, who saw her potential to represent Australia.
Burns was selected as a member of th
Pearls
the Australian national women's basketball team for athletes with an intellectual disability. The Pearls were undefeated in Madrid in their five games, against Great Britain, France, Poland and Greece. Burns scored 128 of the team's 273 total points, and was voted Most Valuable Player.
Pearls
in the 1992 Madrid Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap. Burns is an Indigenous Australian and descendant of the Yorta Yorta.
Personal
Burns is an Australian basketball player who won gold as a member of thPearls
in the 1992 Madrid Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap. Born in 1972 in
Echuca
Echuca ( ) is a town on the banks of the Murray River and Campaspe River in Victoria, Australia. The border town of Moama is adjacent on the northern side of the Murray River in New South Wales. Echuca is the administrative centre and largest s ...
, Victoria, Australia, Burns is an Indigenous Australian and descendant of the Yorta Yorta. She is the granddaughter of Margaret Tucker
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (28 March 1904 – 23 August 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian activist and writer who was among the first Aboriginal authors to publish an autobiography, in 1977.
Early life
Margaret Tucker was born at War ...
, an Indigenous Australian activist and writer.
Basketball career
Burns alternated from playing netball to basketball from the age of eight. As a teenager she focussed on basketball at the encouragement of her coach, who saw her potential to represent Australia.
Burns was selected as a member of thPearls
the Australian national women's basketball team for athletes with an intellectual disability. The Pearls were undefeated in Madrid in their five games, against Great Britain, France, Poland and Greece. Burns scored 128 of the team's 273 total points, and was voted Most Valuable Player.
Recognition
* NAIDOC Victorian Sports Person of the Year 1993 * 1993 National Sportswoman of the Year at the 4th biennialNational Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sports Awards National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sports Awards were first held in 1986 and recognize the sporting achievements of Indigenous and Islander athletes. The Awards have not been held since 2003.
Background
The inaugural National Aborigi ...
* Awarded Medal of the Order of Australia ( OAM) on 13 June 1993 in "recognition of service to sport as a gold medalist at the Paralympic Games, Madrid 1992"
* Inducted to Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame
The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame was established in 1994 to recognise Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) that have achieved at the highest level of their chosen sport. It wa ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burns, Donna Living people Indigenous Australian Paralympians Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Sportswomen from Victoria (state) Intellectual Disability category Paralympic competitors People from Echuca Australian women's basketball players Year of birth missing (living people)