In 2018, she was part of the Canadian national women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg.

Puisand Lai was born in Honolulu County, Hawaii, on July 29, 2000.

[1] When she was six years old, she was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition in which the spinal cord is inflamed.

[2] In October 2013, Lai joined the Mississauga Little Aces program, a project supported by Tennis Canada and run by Albert Fong of Mississagua Little Aces, which teaches tennis to children from ages six to sixteen, and children with disabilities from ages eight to nineteen.

[6][7] Lai also participated in sledge hockey, sailing and wheelchair basketball,[2] where she was classified as a 1.0 point player, and began playing competitively in 2014.