Shawn Russell

Shawn Russell (born 15 June 1987) is a 4.0 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia.

In 2016, he was selected as part of the Rollers for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

[1] He was visited by Eino Okkonen, an amputee himself, and the founder of the Wollongong Roller Hawks, a team in the National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL).

[3] Russell made his international debut with the U23 team (the Spinners) at the FisBIT Games in Kuala Lumpur in 2007, and in 2009 he was part of the team at the IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Paris.

Moving to Victoria, he joined the Kilsyth Cobras, who win the league title in 2015 and 2016.