Joy Haizelden

{{Infobox sportsperson

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| name = Joy Haizelden

| image = 2024 Summer Paralympics women's wheelchair basketball - Great Britain v Canada 21.jpg

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| caption = Joy Haizelden at the 2024 Paralympics

| nationality = {{GBR}}

| club = Coventry Wheelchair Basketball Academy

| universityteam = University of Alabama (2022 - present)

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|12|1|df=y}}

| country = Great Britain

| sport = Wheelchair basketball

| disability_class = 2.5

| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport |Wheelchair basketball}}

{{MedalBronze|2015 Worcester, England|Women's wheelchair basketball}}

{{MedalBronze|2017 Tenriffe, Spain|Women's wheelchair basketball}}

{{MedalSilver|2019 Rotterdam, Netherland|Women's wheelchair basketball}}

{{MedalSilver|2023 Rotterdam, Netherland|Women's wheelchair basketball}}

{{MedalSilver|2018 Hamburg, Germany|Women's wheelchair basketball}}

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Joy Haizelden (born 1 December 1998) is a 2.5 point British wheelchair basketball player who was the youngest player to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. She also went to Paris to compete at the 2024 Paralympics.

Biography

Joy Haizelden was born on 1 December 1998.{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/gb-teams/gb-players/gb-women/joy-haizelden/ |title=Joy Haizelton |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=5 July 2015 }} Joy was abandoned outside an orphanage in China. She was adopted by a British couple, Jim and Margaret Haizelden, who took her to live in Southampton, in Hampshire, in 2005. She was a student at The Kings School. Joy could not participate in physical education, so Jim went looking for ways to keep her fit and active. A friend invited him to bring Joy to his wheelchair basketball club.

Haizelden is classified as a 2.5 point player. She made her international debut in the Standard Life Head to Head series against the Netherlands in 2013. This was followed by the U25 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships, where Team Great Britain won the silver medal. She was named the Peter Jackson Young Female Player of the Year at The Lord's Taverners National Junior Championships in July 2013,{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/news/round-up-the-lords-taverners-national-junior-championships-2013/ |title=Round Up: The Lord's Taverners National Junior Championships 2013 |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=5 July 2015 }} and was part of England South's team at the Sainsbury 2013 School Games, winning bronze.

At the age of 15, she was the youngest player chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. Team Great Britain came fifth, its best ever result at the World Championship.{{cite news |url=http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/sport/11436232.Joy___s_raising_profile_of_wheelchair_basketball/ |title=Joy's raising profile of wheelchair basketball |newspaper=Hampshire Chronicle |first=Peter |last=Howard |date=28 August 2014 |accessdate=5 July 2015 }} The following year, she was part of Team Great Britain at 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 }} winning silver,{{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=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing in July,{{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=5 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 Worcester. 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 }}

Achievements

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 |date=6 September 2015 |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/joy-haizelden/ |title=Joy Haizelden |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 }}
2019: Silver at the 2019 European Championships (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) {{cite web | url=https://www.iwbf-europe.org/event/ecwa-2019-2/ | title=ECWA 2019 – IWBF Europe }}
2021: Silver at the 2021 European Championships (Madrid, Spain)
2023: Silver at the 2023 European Championships (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) {{cite web | url=https://www.iwbf-europe.org/event/ecmwa-2023/ | title=ECMWA 2023 – IWBF Europe }}

= [[National Wheelchair Basketball Association|NWBA]] intercollegiate =

3× Champion (2022,{{Cite web |title=Women's Wheelchair Basketball Wins 8th National Championship – University of Alabama News {{!}} The University of Alabama |date=23 March 2022 |url=https://news.ua.edu/2022/03/womens-wheelchair-basketball-wins-8th-national-championship/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |language=en-US}} 2023,{{Cite web |last=NWNA |date=2023-03-11 |title=THREE-PEAT! Alabama Crimson Tide Dominate En Route to 2023 National Championship |url=https://www.nwba.org/news_article/show/1264244-three-peat-alabama-crimson-tide-dominate-en-route-to-2023-national-championship- |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=National Wheelchair Basketball Association |language=en-us}} 2024)
1× Rookie Team All American (2022 {{Cite web |last=NWBA |date=2022-03-17 |title=2022 NWBA Intercollegiate Division Award Winners and All-Americans |url=https://www.nwba.org/news_article/show/1216574-2022-nwba-intercollegiate-division-award-winners-and-all-americans |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=National Wheelchair Basketball Association |language=en-us}})
1× 2st team All American (2022 )
1× 1st team All American (2023 {{Cite web |last=Division |first=NWBA Women's Intercollegiate |date=2023-03-14 |title=2023 NWBA Women's Intercollegiate Division Award Winners and All-Americans Announced |url=https://www.nwba.org/news_article/show/1264534-2023-nwba-women-s-intercollegiate-division-award-winners-and-all-americans-announced- |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=National Wheelchair Basketball Association |language=en-us}})

References

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

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

Category:1998 births

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century British sportswomen

Category:Basketball players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Category:British adoptees

Category:British women's wheelchair basketball players

Category:Chinese disabled sportspeople

Category:Chinese emigrants to England

Category:Chinese wheelchair users

Category:Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Great Britain

Category:People with spina bifida

Category:Sportspeople from Southampton

Category:Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Category:Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Category:Wheelchair basketball players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics