19 Facts About Amber Merritt

Amber Merritt was born on 17 February 1993 and is a 4.5-point wheelchair basketball player who plays forward.

Amber Merritt represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a silver medal and at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.

Amber Merritt was originally a swimmer, but was recruited into basketball by the Paralympic Hall of Fame coach Frank Ponta in 2007.

Amber Merritt started playing top-level club wheelchair basketball in Australia for the Perth Western Stars in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League in 2008.

Amber Merritt was the league's top scorer, and the Most Valuable Player 4 pointer in its All Star Five, in 2011,2012 and 2013.

Amber Merritt made her debut with the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in 2009.

Amber Merritt has played for the Gliders in a number of international series including the 2010 U23 World Championship, 2011 U25 World Championship, 2011,2012 and 2013 Osaka Cups, the 2012 BT Paralympic World Cup, and 2012 Gliders and Rollers World Challenge in Sydney.

Amber Merritt moved to Perth in Western Australia when she was ten after her parents decided they wanted to see what else the world had to offer, and graduated from high school there in 2010.

Amber Merritt was originally a swimmer, but was recruited into basketball by the Paralympic Hall of Fame coach Frank Ponta.

Amber Merritt finished the season as the WNWBL Season Top Scorer,.

Amber Merritt was the league's top scorer, and the Most Valuable Player 4 pointer in its All Star Five, as she had previously been in 2011 and 2012.

Amber Merritt made her debut with the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in 2009, playing in several different competitions that year including the Japan Friendly Series, Four Nations in Canada and the Under 23 World Championship where her team finished fourth.

Amber Merritt competed in the 2011 Asia Oceania Regional Championships, scoring ten points for her team as the third leading scorer in the final game of a competition where her did not lose a single match.

Amber Merritt played in the 2011 Osaka Cup, and the 2012 BT Paralympic World Cup.

Amber Merritt competed at the 2012 Gliders and Rollers World Challenge in Sydney, scoring the winning points in the first place match against the Germany women's national wheelchair basketball team, and was named the women's MVP for the competition, having averaged 17.8 points per game.

Amber Merritt was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair basketball.

Since the London games, Amber Merritt has participated in the 2013 Osaka Cup, where the Gliders successfully defended the title they had won in 2008,2009,2010 and 2012.

Amber Merritt represented Australia at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, where the team came ninth, and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Gliders again finished ninth after winning the 9th-10th classification match.

Amber Merritt was a member of the Australian team that won the silver medal in the 3x3 Women's tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, and the Gliders team at the 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Dubai.