 Evans at the 2024 Summer Paralympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Australia |
| Born | (1990-09-18) September 18, 1990 (age 34) |
| Sport | |
| Disability class | 2.5 |
| Club | Perth Wheelcats |
Philip "Phil" Evans (born 18 September 1990) is a 2.5 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He was a member of the Rollers at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Biography
Evans was born on 18 September 1990 and his hometown is Perth, Western Australia. He attended Sacred Heart College, Sorrento. In September 2013, after having celebrating a premiership football win with friends, crashed his car on the way home. The car accident him fracturing his T-11 and T-12 vertebrae, paralysing him from the waist down. In 2018, Evans was awarded the Craig H Nielsen Scholarship, at the University of Arizona, where he majored in business.
In 2024, he is employed at the University of Western Australia as an Inclusion Coordinator.
Basketball
Evans played many sports growing up including Australia rules football, indoor and outdoor cricket, mixed netball, rugby union, tennis and golf. After his accident, he coached a senior Whitford's AFL side, where he played A Grade Football in 2009-2010 and 2012–2013.
He was introduced to wheelchair basketball through attending ‘come and try’ day at the Herb Graham Recreation Centre organised by Rebound WA. He was selected to play for the Perth Wheelcats in Australia's National Wheelchair Basketball League and this led him to be offered a University of Arizona scholarship to join their wheelchair basketball program.
He was a member of the Rollers team at the 2024 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Thailand, where they won the gold medal and qualified for 2024 Summer Paralympics.
At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, he was a member of the Rollers that finished fifth with a win/loss record of 3-3.
References
- "Fire Burns For Veteran Rollers Picked For Paris 2024 | Paralympics Australia". www.paralympic.org.au. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- "Phil Evans | Paralympics Australia". www.paralympic.org.au. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ "Sacred Heart College - PHIL EVANS (CLASS OF 2007) LISTED IN PARALYMPIC TEAM". www.sacredheart.wa.edu.au. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ "Perth paraplegic's hoop dreams come true". The West Australian. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- "Phil Evans | Adaptive Athletics". adaptiveathletics.arizona.edu. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- "Rollers Team Announced for Asia Oceania Championships". www.australia.basketball. 15 December 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- "Point Proven, But Rollers Lament Lost Opportunity | Paralympics Australia". www.paralympic.org.au. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.