Background
Laurie Williams was born on 4 February 1993 in Wythenshawe, a district of Manchester in England.
Laurie Williams was born on 4 February 1993 in Wythenshawe, a district of Manchester in England.
A virus resulted in her developing motor neuropathy in her trunk and legs. When she was 13, Williams began wheelchair athletics and wheelchair racing. While attending the Greater Manchester Youth Games in 2005, she was asked to try out for wheelchair basketball.
She found that she loved the physicality of the game and the social aspects of being part of a team, and started playing competitively in 2008.
Her team mates called her "whippet" on account of her speed on the basketball court. She played for the Nottingham Coyotes in the National League and is classified as a 2.5 point player.
In 2009 Williams made her debut with Team Great Britain at the 2009 British Telecom Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, and in 2010 was part of the team that came sixth at the World Championships in Birmingham – Britain"s best ever performance. She made her Paralympic debut in front of a home crowd at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
She has a Bachelor of Science in social psychology from Loughborough University.
"There were loads of different reasons for coming to Loughborough University," she explained. "The course was one of them. lieutenant’s one of the only universities in the country that does social psychology and that was important for medical
The sport as well, obviously.
I applied for the 2012 scholarship and got it and the facilities are really good. But the atmosphere was also a big factor.
lieutenant’s one of the best student experience universities in the country." After graduating from Loughborough, she studied Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Alabama. In 2015 she was co-captain (with Amy Conroy) of the U25 team at the 2015 Women"s U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing, winning gold.
2009: Bronze at the European Championships (Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom).
2009: Bronze at the European Championships (Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom) 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: Gold at the 2015 Women"s U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Beijing, China) 2015: Bronze at the European Championships (Worcester, England).
