Arinn Young

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| event = Women's team

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Arinn Young (born July 10, 1996) is a Canadian 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player who won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.

Biography

Arinn Young was born in St. Albert, Alberta, on July 10, 1996. She is nicknamed "Juice" due to her practice of drinking juice boxes during a game.{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Dah_Juice |title=Arinn Young (Dah Juice) on Twitter |publisher=Twitter |accessdate=July 18, 2014}} She started playing basketball when she was five years old, and went on to win 15 MVP awards and two city championships. She also played other sports, including lacrosse and horse riding, and was placed third in shot-put at the Alberta Track and Field Provincial Championship.

An injury while playing lacrosse when she was 14 saw her right knee swell up. It apparently returned to normal but "popped" a number of times over the following year. An MRI revealed an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Her meniscus was damaged and her femur, patella and fibula were bone on bone, which causes accelerated wear on the bones. A series of surgical procedures followed.{{cite web |url=http://going-out-witha-bang.blogspot.com.au/ |title=The Life Of Arinn Young |publisher=Blogspot |accessdate=July 18, 2014}} She continued playing basketball with the Morinville Community High School Lady Wolves until 2013, when she severely injured her good knee in the opening game at the North Central Zone Tournament.{{cite web |url=http://www.mchs.gsacrd.ab.ca/download/6874 |title=MCHS Basketball Player Makes Team Canada's Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball Team |publisher=Morinville Community High School |accessdate=July 18, 2014 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061142/http://www.mchs.gsacrd.ab.ca/download/6874 |url-status=dead}}

Young was introduced to wheelchair basketball by Max MacMillan, a friend of her father's and a wheelchair basketball coach whose daughter played the sport. Able to walk normally, Young is classified as a 4.5 point player.

She began playing for the Edmonton Inferno in 2012, placing fourth in the Canadian Wheelchair Basketball League Women's National Championship in Richmond, British Columbia, and finished first in the Canadian Women's Championship in Edmonton in 2013. In 2013, she was named to the All Star Five.{{cite web |url=http://www.bcwbs.ca/news/04-29-2013/bc-breakers-finish-4th-2013-womens-cwbl-finals |title=BC Breakers Finish 4th at 2013 Women's CWBL Finals |publisher=Wheelchair Basketball BC |date=April 29, 2013 |accessdate=July 18, 2014 |archive-date=July 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722164915/http://www.bcwbs.ca/news/04-29-2013/bc-breakers-finish-4th-2013-womens-cwbl-finals |url-status=dead}} She joined the U25 national team in 2013, and made her international debut with the senior women's team as the youngest player on the team at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto in July 2014, winning a gold medal.{{cite web |url=http://morinvillenews.com/2014/07/13/legal-athlete-is-a-wheelchair-basketball-world-champion/ |title=Legal athlete is a wheelchair basketball World Champion |first=Stephen |last=Dafoe |date=13 July 2014 |accessdate=22 July 2014 |work=The Mornville News}}{{cite web |url=http://2014wheelchairbasketball.com/news/latest-news/final-day-at-the-2014-womens-world-wheelchair-basketball-championship |title=Canada Wins Gold on Home Soil at the 2014 Women’s World Championship |publisher=Wheelchair Basketball Canada |accessdate=July 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714204422/http://2014wheelchairbasketball.com/news/latest-news/final-day-at-the-2014-womens-world-wheelchair-basketball-championship |archivedate=July 14, 2014}} She won silver at the 2015 Parapan American Games in August 2015.{{cite web |url=http://results.toronto2015.org/PRS/resPT2015/pdf/PT2015/WB/PT2015_WB_C92C_WBW400000.pdf |title=Wheelchair Basketball - Medallists |access-date=13 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817162035/http://results.toronto2015.org/PRS/resPT2015/pdf/PT2015/WB/PT2015_WB_C92C_WBW400000.pdf |archive-date=17 August 2015 |url-status=dead}}

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|{{cite web |url=http://www.wheelchairbasketball.ca/Arinn_Young.aspx |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702221258/http://www.wheelchairbasketball.ca/Arinn_Young.aspx |archivedate=July 2, 2014 |title=Arinn Young |accessdate=July 13, 2014 |publisher=Wheelchair Basketball Canada |url-status=dead}}

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FTM, FTA, FT%: free throws made, attempted and percentage	OR, DR: offensive, defensive rebounds
PTS: points	AST: assists

Notes

External links

[https://www.wheelchairbasketball.ca/players/arinn-young/ Arinn Young] at Wheelchair Basketball Canada
{{CPC profile|arinn-young}}
{{IPC profile|arinn-young}}
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoU1W64PtQc Interview: Arinn Young (Canada) | 2014 IWBF Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships]

{{Canada national women's wheelchair basketball team - 2016 Summer Paralympics}}

{{Canada national women's wheelchair basketball team - 2024 Summer Paralympics}}

Category:1998 births

Category:Living people

Category:Canadian women's wheelchair basketball players

Category:Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Canada

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

Category:Wheelchair basketball players at the 2023 Parapan American Games

Category:Sportspeople at the 2019 Parapan American Games

Category:Sportspeople at the 2015 Parapan American Games