By Claire O'Brien, Sports Digital Content Editor
• September 2, 2021
The Paralympics kicked off last week in Tokyo, with several Illini competing for Team USA. Here’s how the Illini have done at the Paralympics:
Tatyana McFadden (Wheelchair racing, USA):
McFadden...
By Claire O'Brien, Sports Digital Content Editor
• August 25, 2021
Illini in the Paralympics
The 2020 Paralympics are set to kick off in Tokyo Tuesday. Many Illini will be competing in the Games. Here’s who’s going to Tokyo:
Wheelchair racing, USA
Tatyana...
The Illinois wheelchair basketball team played its only home tournament of the season at the ARC Friday and Saturday.
Since the team seldom plays in Champaign, they cherished a weekend of playing in front...
Before Dago Saenz hit the basketball court at the 2017 Youth Parapan American Games, he had to learn parts of a language.
Saenz, who was born in Colombia and can speak fluent Spanish, is used to speaking...
Wheelchair basketball player Spencer Heslop’s father paced from left to right.
Arms crossed.
Hands in his pockets.
Back to arms crossed.
Hislop's mother — also wearing a No. 24 jersey —...
The members of the Illinois women’s wheelchair basketball team are starting to echo each other as the playoffs approach.
“Play hard,” Erica Wilson and Kaitlyn Eaton said. “Finish the season strong.”
Illinois...
Illinois men’s wheelchair basketball’s Mak Nong participated in a shootaround Monday morning when he heard teammate Mike Mitchell tell a quick-witted joke.
“Mike is one of those guys that’s going...
Ryan Neiswender entered his senior year with confidence.
Now, he is leaving with even more.
“We’re peaking at the right time, which is what’s important,” Neiswender said. “I don’t think...
Illinois men's wheelchair basketball head coach Matt Buchi has been emphasizing mental toughness since Illinois’ 1-2 finish at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania two weekends ago.
After the Illini...
The Illinois men's wheelchair basketball team has won five of its last seven games and is coming off a tournament in which it beat the experienced Milwaukee Bucks for the first time this season.
Illini...
Head coach Matt Buchi looked over to his left and pulled out an imaginary bow from his back.
He aimed it at Patrick Tomic, who was sitting on the opposite side of the bench, and pulled back his...
Illinois men's wheelchair basketball's Patrick Tomic is getting taller just in time to face a 6-foot opponent on the court.
Tomic, an average-sized guard/forward, started using a new wheelchair last...
