Lisa Edmonds

Lisa Edmonds (née O'Nion) (born 5 June 1967 in Hertfordshire, England) [1] is a wheelchair basketball player from Australia.

She was part of the silver medal-winning Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team[2] at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.

[3] She retired from competitive wheelchair basketball in 2013 and is regarded as one of the pioneers of the women's game in Australia.

[4] At the age of 20, Craig Jarvis, a Sport and Recreation Officer at the Prince of Wales Hospital Spinal Cord Injuries Unit, introduced Edmonds to wheelchair basketball.

[4] She stated that: I left the hospital, bought a basketball and pushed up and down the street trying to bounce the ball.