Katie Morrow (born 20 September 1999) is a 4.5 point British

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player who was the youngest player selected for Team GB wheelchair basketball team at the

2016 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

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Biography

Katie Morrow was born on 20 September 1999. She has an older brother. She is from

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. She attended Cullybackey College. As a

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, she broke the Irish record in her age group in the

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event in 2012. She was introduced to

in 2013 by Phil Robinson, the Wheelchair Basketball Performance Officer at Disability Sport Northern Ireland. She soon played in the Lord's Taverners Junior League, the BWB National Leagues, the National Junior Championships, the Celtic Cup, and Sainsbury's School Games. , she is a 4.5 point player, who plays for the Sheffield Steelers in the Women's League and Knights WBC in the National League. Morrow made her debut with the senior national team at the Continental Clash in 2015, and later that year made her international debut as part of the U25 team at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in

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, where it won gold. The

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followed this in

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, where Great Britain won bronze, and the 2016 Osaka Cup, where it won silver. She won the

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Junior Sportsperson of the Year award in March 2016, and in May 2016, she was named as part of Team GB for the

. At 16, she was the youngest player on the team. 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.

Achievements

* 2015: Gold at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Beijing, China) * 2015: Bronze at the European Championships (

, England)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morrow, Katie Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Great Britain 1999 births Living people British women's basketball players Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Sportspeople from County Antrim British women's wheelchair basketball players 21st-century British sportswomen