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Canadian wheelchair basketball player
Arinn Young
Team Canada – No 6 – Arinn Young
Personal information
Born (1996-07-10) July 10, 1996 (age 28)
St. Albert, Alberta
Height5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Sport
Country Canada
SportWheelchair basketball
Disability class4.5
EventWomen's team
TeamEdmonton Inferno
Medal record
Women's wheelchair basketball
Representing  Canada
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2014 Toronto Team
Parapan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima Team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto Team
Silver medal – second place 2023 Santiago Team

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. 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. 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.

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. 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. She won silver at the 2015 Parapan American Games in August 2015.

Statistics
Competition Season Matches FGM-A FG% 3PM-A 3P% FTM-A FT% OR-DR AST PTS Source
World Championships 2014 3 7-15 46.7 0-0 0 0-1 0 2-9 1 14
Key
FGM, FGA, FG%: field goals made, attempted and percentage 3PM, 3PA, 3P%: three-point field goals made, attempted and percentage
FTM, FTA, FT%: free throws made, attempted and percentage OR, DR: offensive, defensive rebounds
PTS: points AST: assists

Notes

  1. ^ "Arinn Young". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  2. "Arinn Young (Dah Juice) on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  3. ^ "The Life Of Arinn Young". Blogspot. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  4. ^ "MCHS Basketball Player Makes Team Canada's Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball Team". Morinville Community High School. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  5. ^ Dafoe, Stephen (13 July 2014). "Legal athlete is a wheelchair basketball World Champion". The Mornville News. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  6. "BC Breakers Finish 4th at 2013 Women's CWBL Finals". Wheelchair Basketball BC. April 29, 2013. Archived from the original on July 22, 2020. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  7. "Canada Wins Gold on Home Soil at the 2014 Women's World Championship". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
  8. "Wheelchair Basketball - Medallists" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 August 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2016.

External links

Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team – 2016 Summer Paralympics
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Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team – 2024 Summer Paralympics
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