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Wheelchair hoops

(taken from the April 24, 2010 St. Albert Gazette)

   

The main event this weekend at Servus Credit Union Place is the women’s wheelchair basketball tournament hosted by the Edmonton Inferno.

In the round-robin draw the six-time reigning Canadian women’s league champions play Calgary, Saskatoon and a B team assembled by the Inferno.

Today’s tip-off times for the Inferno are 9 a.m. against Calgary on court A and 2:15 p.m. against Saskatoon on court B. Sunday’s tilt against the B team starts at 8:30 a.m. on court A. The finals are 11 a.m. on both courts.

The St. Albert connection with the Inferno from the 2008 Canadian Paralympic team is post Tara Feser and veteran guard Jen Krempien. Feser is coming off her second-straight NCAA championship with the University of Alabama Crimson Tide. She is also the national team’s co-captain for the Gold Cup world championship, July 5 to 17 in Birmingham, England. Canada is the four-time defending champion. Krempien retired from the national team after the 2008 Paralympics. The three-time Paralympic gold medallist, four-time world champion and 2007/08 Canadian Wheelchair Basketball Association female athlete of the year was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.

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