Cindy Ouellet

Cindy Ouellet (born December 8, 1988) is a Canadian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player.

Cindy Ouellet

Team Canada - No 7 - Cindy Ouellet
Personal information
Nickname(s)	The Hornet
Nationality	Canada
Born	(1988-12-08) December 8, 1988 Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada
Height	5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Wheelchair basketball
Disability class	3.5
Event(s)	Women's team
College team	University of Alabama
Medal record Wheelchair basketball 2014 World Championships Women's wheelchair basketball 2010 BT Paralympic World Cup Women's wheelchair basketball 2007 Parapan American Games Women's wheelchair basketball 2011 Parapan American Games Women's wheelchair basketball 2015 Parapan American Games Women's wheelchair basketball 2010 World Championships Women's wheelchair basketball

Early life

Cindy Ouellet was born on December 8, 1988 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada.[1] At age 12 she was diagnosed with bone cancer which quickly ended her dream of becoming a soccer player and skier.[2]

Career

Ouellet took up wheelchair basketball in 2005. She is classified as a 3.5 point player.[1] She won a gold medal in 2007 at Canada Games for Quebec, and joined the women's senior team later that year. She made her Paralympic debut at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. At the 2010 World Championships in Birmingham she won a bronze one following by a silver medal at the 2011 Parapan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.[3]

In 2011, Ouellet joined Canada's first-ever Women's U25 National Team, which she led at the inaugural Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in St. Catharines, Ontario, in July 2011. Ouellet was named to the all-star team and finished fourth in overall tournament scoring. She was named MVP of the 2011 CWBL Women's National Championships after leading Quebec to its first-ever gold medal victory.[1]

As of 2014, she is attending University of Alabama, where she wants to get PhD in biomedical engineering, and participates in the women's wheelchair basketball team there. In 2013, she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and was again named MVP at the CWBL Women's Championship.[1] She was part of the team that won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto in July 2014,[4] and silver at the 2015 Parapan American Games in August 2015.[5]

In 2016 she participated at CrossFit weight lifting competition.[6]

In a 2018 interview with Radio Canada she said that she will participate in 2 more Paralympic competitions. She mentioned that if it won't be in South Korea it will be in Tokyo in 2020 and 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China.[7]

Statistics[1]

Competition	Season	Matches	FGM-A	FG%	3PM-A	3P%	FTM-A	FT%	OR-DR	AST	PTS
World Championship	2014	8	57-129	44	0-14	0	11-21	52	9-16	71	125
Paralympic Games	2012	7	36-89	40	0-4	0	10-17	59	14-31	50	82
World Championship	2010	7	21-58	36	0-4	0	4-16	25	7-32	31	46
Paralympic Games	2008	7	16-32	50	0-3	0	1-7	14	7-5	10	33

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

Awards

• Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013)[1]
• Wheelchair Basketball Canada Female Athlete of the Year (2012)[1]
• Women's U25 World Championships tournament all-star team (2011)[1]
• CWBL Women's National Championships tournament all-star team (2012)[1]
• CWBL Women's National Championships tournament all-star team (2010)[1]
• Wheelchair Basketball Canada Junior Athlete of the Year (2007)[1]

External links

• Cindy Ouellet on YouTube

References

1. "Cindy Ouellet". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
2. Timothy Snyder (May 21, 2012). "Cindy Ouellet: Rising Paralympic Basketball Star". Rollx vans. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
3. "The Hornet". Canadian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on July 9, 2013. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
4. "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.
5. "Wheelchair Basketball - Medallists" (PDF). Toronto 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 17, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
6. "Relever le défi du CrossFit en fauteuil roulant" [Meeting the challenge of CrossFit in a wheelchair] (in French). Radio Canada. March 23, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
7. "Cindy Ouellet, du basketball au paraski de fond" [Cindy Ouellet, basketball is the least concern, paraski is next] (in French). Radio Canada. January 3, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2018.