TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team will perform at halftime of the UA men’s basketball game against Temple on Saturday, Dec. 11, at 6 p.m. in Coleman Coliseum.
In their second season, the UA Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team has 8 wins and 7 losses against mostly men’s teams. The team competes in the Women’s Division of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association, known as the NWBA, and will continue to play against men’s teams in games and tournaments across the Southeast in order to qualify for the Women’s National Wheelchair tournament at Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Penn., Feb. 23-27, 2005.
The halftime exhibition will be a chance for Alabama basketball fans to see their team in action and honor team member and 2004 Paralympic Gold Medal winner Stephanie Wheeler, a UA graduate student in kinesiology from Norlina, N.C.
For more information about UA Disability Sports or the UA Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team, please contact the UADS director Brent Hardin at 205/348-5109 or head coach Margaret Stran at 205/348-7991. Also, go to the UADS Web site at www.bama.ua.edu/~uads.
Contact
Linda Hill, UA Media Relations, 205/348-8325, lhill@ur.ua.edu
Source
Brent Hardin, 205/348-5109, Margaret Stran, 205/348-7991