Amy Conroy
{{Short description|British wheelchair basketball player}}
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Amy Conroy (born 22 October 1992) is a 4.0 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain in the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, the 2016 Summer Paralympics in a Rio de Janeiro, co captained the team to win Gold in the under 25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Beijing and won a silver medal at the 2018 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Hamburg.
Biography
Amy Conroy was born on 22 October 1992.{{cite web |url=http://gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/gb-teams/gb-players/gb-women/amy-conroy/ |title=Amy Conroy |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=5 July 2015 }} When she was young, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a common bone cancer that runs in her family. Chemotherapy failed to arrest the cancer and she had to have her left leg amputated.{{cite news |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/olympics/14370527 |title=BBC Olympic Dreams: Amy Conroy aims at Basketball's Best |accessdate=5 July 2015 }} Conroy tried wheelchair basketball and found that she enjoyed the speed and aggression of the sport.
A 4.0 point player, she made her international debut as a teenager at the 2010 BT Paralympic World Cup. Later that year she participated in the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Birmingham, where Team Great Britain came sixth, its best ever placing. In 2011 they won gold at the BT Paralympic World Cup and bronze at the European Championship.
Conroy made her Paralympic debut at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she was Team Great Britain's top-scorer in their opening match against the Netherlands. She was top-scorer again with 22 points in the final match again Mexico, where Great Britain secured seventh place, its highest ranking at the Paralympics since the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta.{{cite web |url=http://paralympics.org.uk/gb/athletes/amy-conroy |title=Amy Conroy - London 2012 |publisher=ParalympicsGB |accessdate=5 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141115070734/http://www.paralympics.org.uk/gb/athletes/amy-conroy |archive-date=15 November 2014 |url-status=dead }}
In 2013, Conroy was part of the team that won bronze at the European Championship, and silver at the U25 European Championships. The team was placed fifth at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. In 2015, she won silver in the Osaka Cup in Japan in February,{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/news/gb-womens-team-announced-for-the-osaka-cup-2015/ |title=GB Women's Team announced for the Osaka Cup 2015 |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=5 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924021232/http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/news/gb-womens-team-announced-for-the-osaka-cup-2015/ |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/GBWBA/index.cfm/gb-teams/tournaments/osaka-cup-2015/ |title=Osaka Cup 2015 |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=5 July 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and was co-captain (with Laurie Williams) of the U25 team at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing,{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/GBWBA/index.cfm/news/great-britain-team-announced-for-2015-womene28099s-u25-world-wheelchair-basketball-championships/ |title=Great Britain Team announced for 2015 Women’s U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=3 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924021039/http://www.gbwba.org.uk/GBWBA/index.cfm/news/great-britain-team-announced-for-2015-womene28099s-u25-world-wheelchair-basketball-championships/ |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }} winning gold.{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/news/great-britain-crowned-womens-u25-world-champions/ |title=Great Britain crowned Women's U25 World Champions! |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=6 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924021243/http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/news/great-britain-crowned-womens-u25-world-champions/ |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }} The senior team then defeated France to take bronze in the 2015 European Championship. In May 2016, she was named as part of the team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/british-women-s-wheelchair-basketball-team-named-rio |title=British women’s wheelchair basketball team named for Rio |date=13 May 2016 |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=6 September 2016}} 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.{{cite news |url=http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/sport/14748897.GB_women___s_wheelchair_basketball_team_miss_out_on_bronze_medal_to_dominant_Dutch_in_Rio/ |title=University of Worcester-based GB women’s wheelchair basketball team miss out on bronze medal to dominant Dutch in Rio Paralympics |newspaper=Worcester News |first=Geoff |last=Berkeley |date=17 September 2016 |access-date=18 September 2016 }}
Conroy studied social psychology at Loughborough University. In April 2021 she joined the workplace wellbeing platform Champion Health as an ambassador, with the remit of "mak[ing] all areas of wellbeing inclusive and accessible."[https://championhealth.co.uk/blog/amy-conroy-paralympian-on-your-feet-britain/ Paralympian Amy Conroy and On Your Feet Britain] Champion Health. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.[https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/sheffield-startup-champion-health-hires-olympian-jack-green-as-head-of-performance-3227909 Sheffield startup Champion Health hires Olympian Jack Green as head of performance] Yorkshire Post. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
Achievements
- 2010: Sixth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships (Birmingham, UK)
- 2011: Bronze at the European Championships (Nazareth, Israel)
- 2011: Bronze at the U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (St. Catharines, Canada)
- 2012: Seventh at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games (London, UK)
- 2013: Bronze at European Championships (Frankfurt, Germany)
- 2014: Fifth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship (Toronto, Canada)
- 2015: Silver at the Osaka Cup (Osaka, Japan)
- 2015: Gold at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Beijing, China)
- 2015: Bronze at the European Championships (Worcester, England) {{cite web |url=http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1029917/germany-earn-10th-womens-european-wheelchair-basketball-championship-title-as-hosts-britain-win-mens-gold |title=Germany earn 10th women's European Wheelchair Basketball Championship title as hosts Britain win men's gold |publisher=Inside the Games |accessdate=9 September 2015 }}
- 2016: Fourth at the 2016 Paralympics (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil){{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/rio-2016/eng/wb/engwb_wheelchair-basketball-summary-women-s.htm |title=Summary - Wheelchair Basketball |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=11 February 2017 }}
- 2017: Bronze at the European Championships (Tenerife, Spain){{cite web |url=http://www.britishwheelchairbasketball.co.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/gb-teams/gb-players/gb-women/amy-conroy/ |title=Amy Conroy |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |access-date=1 September 2018 }}
- 2018: Silver at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Hamburg, Germany) {{cite web |url=http://www.fibalivestats.com/u/IWBFW/916102/bs.html |title=NED v GBR |publisher=FIBA LiveStats |access-date=1 September 2018 }}
References
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External links
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{{Great Britain national women's wheelchair basketball team - 2016 Summer Paralympics}}
{{Great Britain national women's wheelchair basketball team - 2024 Summer Paralympics}}
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Category:Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Great Britain
Category:British women's wheelchair basketball players
Category:Alumni of Loughborough University
Category:Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Category:Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Category:Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Category:Wheelchair basketball players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics