Amy Conroy

Background

Amy Conroy was born on 22 October 1992.

Career

When she was young, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a common bone cancer that runs in her family. Chemotherapy failed to arrest the cancer and she had to have her left leg amputated. Conroy tried wheelchair basketball and found that she enjoyed the speed and aggression of the sport.

A 4.0 point player, she made her international debut as a teenager at the 2010 British Telecom Paralympic World Cup.

To try to make her play more aggressively her teammates nicknamed her "Tiger". Later that year she participated in the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Birmingham, where Team Great Britain came sixth, its best ever placing.

Conroy made her Paralympic debut at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she was Team Great Britain"s top-scorer in their opening match against the Netherlands. She was top-scorer again with 22 points in the final match again Mexico, where Great Britain secured seventh place, its highest ranking at the Paralympics since the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta.

The team was placed fifth at the 2014 Women"s World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.

Conroy studied social psychology at Loughborough University. 2010: Sixth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships (Birmingham, United Kingdom).

Achievements

• 2010: Sixth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships (Birmingham, United Kingdom) 2011: Bronze at the European Championships (Nazareth, Israel) 2011: Bronze at the U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Street Catharines, Canada) 2012: Seventh at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games (London, United Kingdom) 2013: Bronze at European Championships (Frankfurt, Germany) 2014: Fifth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship (Toronto, Canada) 2015: Silver at the Osaka Cup (Osaka, Japan) 2015: Gold at the 2015 Women"s U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Beijing, China) 2015: Bronze at the European Championships (Worcester, England).