34 Facts About Amanda Carter

Amanda Carter was born on 16 July 1964 and is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player.

Amanda Carter spent 11 weeks on a continuous passive motion machine, and nine operations were required to treat the elbow.

Amanda Carter was born on 16 July 1964 in Heidelberg, Victoria.

Amanda Carter spent her childhood living in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg West.

Amanda Carter went to Olympic Village Primary School, attended years 7 to 10 at Latrobe High School and years 11 and 12 at Thornbury High School.

Amanda Carter then entered La Trobe University, where she obtained Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Occupational Therapy degrees.

Amanda Carter began playing wheelchair basketball in 1991 as part of her rehabilitation.

Amanda Carter first participated in the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in 1992 in a precursor tournament before the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics, in which she participated.

Amanda Carter was a member of the team that won a bronze medal at the 1994 World Championships.

Amanda Carter led Australia in scoring with 12 points in that game.

Amanda Carter participated at the 1998 Gold Cup in Sydney, where she was Australia's second-leading scorer with 30 points.

Amanda Carter participated in five game test series against the Netherlands, the United States and Japan where her team won all games in those series.

Amanda Carter won a silver medal as part of her team at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics.

Amanda Carter missed a warm up game against the New South Wales State team before the start of the 2000 Games.

Amanda Carter missed a practice game that her team played against Germany's women's wheelchair basketball team because of an illness she picked up during a team training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport that took place a week before the start of the Games.

Amanda Carter's team lost the match to Canada before a crowd of 16,389 spectators, with Carter scoring only four points in the first half.

Amanda Carter lost considerable mobility in her right arm, and required an elbow reconstruction.

Amanda Carter spent 11 weeks on a continuous passive motion machine getting treatment.

Amanda Carter carried a lot of anger towards the Canadian in the first year following her accident.

Amanda Carter was selected to play in a four-game test series in Canberra against Japan's wheelchair basketball team held in March 2002, the first Australian hosted international for the team since the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and at the 2002 World Cup event in Japan, but did not do so.

Amanda Carter quit the sport after being told that neither insurance nor the Australian Paralympic Committee would cover her against injury during a tour in the United States, as her tendonitis was considered an uninsured pre-condition there, and she would have to pay the costs for injury treatment herself.

Amanda Carter had a child, which caused a recurrence of her original illness.

Amanda Carter took up wheelchair basketball again after watching the national team compete at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.

Amanda Carter was selected to participate in a national team training camp in 2010.

Amanda Carter played in four games during the 2012 Gliders World Challenge, where she averaged 1.5 points per game, 0.5 assists per game, and 1.3 rebounds per game.

Amanda Carter was coached by John Triscari in 2012 when with the national team.

Amanda Carter was part of the silver medal team for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

Amanda Carter was the oldest member of the team, and the only member of the Gliders who had participated in the 1992,1996 or 2000 Paralympics.

Amanda Carter did not play in either the semifinal match against the United States, which Australia won, nor in the gold medal match against the Germany, which her team lost.

At the half, her team was winning by 10 points, with Amanda Carter being a major reason why.

Amanda Carter averaged 2.4 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game that year.

Amanda Carter averaged 0.3 assists and 3.0 rebounds per game that year.

Amanda Carter averaged 1.3 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game that year.

Amanda Carter played 13 games that season, when she averaged 4.5 points, 1.5 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game.