John McPhail (born 30 December 1989) is a wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team that competed at the

2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship The 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held in Birmingham, Great Britain from 7 to 17 July 2010. Both the men's and women's tournaments were held. The Championships was a qualifying event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games ...

, winning the gold medal. He was a member of the Rollers team that competed at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

Personal

He comes from Peakhurst, New South Wales, Australia. He went to the United States to complete social work studies at University of Texas at Arlington. He and his wife Jillian married in 2019 and reside in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. In 2021, he is a Sales and Marketing Representative in Dallas, Texas.

Basketball

He is a

3.0 point player 3-point player is a disability sport classification for wheelchair basketball. People in this class have good forward and backward trunk movement but poor to no sideways trunk movement. The class includes people with L2–L4 paraplegia and amputat ...

. McPhail's wheelchair basketball career started in 2004 with the New South Wales junior team. He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team which won the gold medal at the

. Whilst studying the United States, he played for the University of Texas at Arlington's Movin’ Mavs wheelchair basketball team. In 2015, he played with the NWBL Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks and won the national title. He has played professionally in Germany with Köln 99ers (2015–16) and Rhine River Rhinos (2016–17). In 2020, he was playing with the Sydney Metro Blue Hornets. After years of hard work, he was selected to the Australian Rollers Squad that will play at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. At the

2020 Tokyo Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralympic ...

, the Rollers finished fifth with a win/loss record of 4-4.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McPhail, John Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Australia Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Living people 1989 births