Sophie Carrigill (born 19 January 1994) is a 1.0 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto and the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
[1] She attended Wakefield Girls' High School, where she played netball, hockey, and tennis.
Despite being the only person in the vehicle wearing a seat belt, she spent two months in hospital, where many of her organs were damaged and some removed including her gall bladder.
Within a year of playing her first game, she was selected to represent the eventual silver medallists Yorkshire in the U19 event at The Lord's Taverners National Junior Championships in 2012.
[1] She was chosen to carry the Olympic torch when it passed through Dewsbury in June 2012,[2] received the Harry Mills Team Maker Award at the Youth Sport Trust National Talent Orientation Camp in 2013,[1] and was awarded the ICAP Beckwith Scholarship.