Rose Hollermann (born December 25, 1995) is an American 3.5 point

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player who won gold at the

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, and 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, the

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and

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, and the

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. She also won bronze at the

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and the

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Early life

Rose Hollermann was born in

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, on December 25, 1995, the daughter of John and Michelle Hollermann. She had three brothers: Shane, Ethan, and Seth. On August 10, 2001, Rose, her mother and three brothers were in a motor vehicle accident outside their home in

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. Her two older brothers Ethan and Shane were killed. She had bruising to her

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around the T11 and T12

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, leaving her partly paralyzed from the waist down. She can stand, and walk a little, but spends much of her time in a wheelchair. After the accident, she was sent to the Courage Center in Minnesota, where swimming was part of her therapy. Soon she was swimming competitively. She also took to

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, and

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sports, including discus,

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, and distance races while at Waterville-Elysian-Morristown High School. Then she discovered

, playing with the Courage Center Rolling Timberwolves. In this sport, in which she is classified a 3.5 point player, she was a National Junior champion in 2008, 2009 and 2010. She won a gold medal in 2010 at the U20 World Championship, and then another at the 2011 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in St. Catharines, Canada.

Career

In 2011, Hollermann became the youngest person to ever make the national team, and won a gold medal at the 2011 Parapan American Games in

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. The following year she made her Paralympic debut at the 2012 London Paralympics. In 2014 the

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(UTA) awarded her a full athletic scholarship to play on its new

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wheelchair basketball team. She won gold again at the 2015 Parapan American Games in

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, Canada. The Lady Movin' Mavs won their first national title in 2016, defeating the top-seeded

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team 65–51 in the

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intercollegiate tournament in

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. Hollermann, who contributed 35 points, nine

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and seven assists, was named the 2015–16 NWBA Collegiate Player of the Year. In 2016, still the youngest player on the USA team, she won gold at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Hollermann continued to play with the Movin' Mavs. On March 17, 2018, they capped off an undefeated season by beating their arch-rivals, the University of Alabama 65–55 to win the national championship. In 2018, she was one of three UTA students selected for the national team at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in

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, Germany, where Team USA came sixth. On March 16, 2019, the Movin' Mavs once again faced the University of Alabama in the national championship final, but this time fell short, losing 82–76 in

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. In May 2019 she won a gold medal with the U25 Women's side at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphanburi, Thailand. Team USA defeated Australia in the final 62–25. She was selected as one of the All-Star Five, along with her Movin' Mav teammates

Abby Dunkin Abigail Dunkin (born November 24, 1995) is an American 3.5 point wheelchair basketball player who won gold at the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto, Canada, the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelc ...

and Annabelle Lindsay. She represented the United States at the

and won a bronze medal.

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