Background
Joy Haizelden was born on 1 December 1998.
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Joy Haizelden
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Career
They were adopted by an English couple, Jim and Margaret Haizelden, who took them to live in Southampton, in Hampshire, in 2005. She was a student at The Kings School. They could not participate in physical education, so Jim went looking for ways to keep them fit and active.
A friend invited him to bring them to his wheelchair basketball club
Haizelden is classified as a 2.5 point player. She made her international debut in the Standard Life Head to Head series against the Netherlands in 2013.
At the age of 15, she was the youngest player chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Women"s World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. Team Great Britain came fifth, its best ever result at the World Championship.
The following year, she was part of Team Great Britain at the Osaka Cup in Japan in February, winning silver, and at the 2015 Women"s U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing in July, winning gold.
2014: Fifth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship (Toronto, Canada).
