The University of the Sunshine Coast’s first sponsored ‘reverse inclusion’ wheelchair basketball game on Friday featured Bullets players Tom Fullarton, Matt Kenyon and Will Magnay taking on some of the country’s finest wheelchair basketballers from USC.
The demonstration match was part of this year’s annual Suncoast Spinners weekend tournament, the largest club-based wheelchair basketball competition in Australia, sponsored by USC.
USC academic Bridie Kean – an Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball dual medallist – came up with the idea for the ‘reverse inclusion’ game to highlight how players with and without disabilities could compete on a fairly equal playing field.
“It’s exciting that USC will be playing the Brisbane Bullets because an initiative starting at USC this year is having wheelchair basketball as a social sport for staff and students,” Ms Kean said.
The University’s representatives included Australian wheelchair basketballers Steven Elliott and Hannah Dodd, both of whom are scholarship recipients through USC’s Sports Elite and Education Dual Stream (SEEDS) program.
