Background
Hartnett was born on 3 June 1982, and is from the Perth suburb of Gosnells.
Hartnett was born on 3 June 1982, and is from the Perth suburb of Gosnells.
He became a paraplegic after a car accident. He is a student, and his role model is Brad Ness. One of his hobbies is collecting flight tags connected to flights he made while competing in wheelchair basketball.
He also loves to learn new languages, like French and Italian.
Hartnett is classified as a 1.0 to 1.5 player, and plays guard. He started playing wheelchair basketball in 1991.
His ability to play wheelchair basketball has been supported by the Western Australian Institute of Sport Individual Athlete Support Program. National team
Hartnett made Australia"s national team for the first time in 1997 when he played for the junior team at the Junior Games held in Victoria, Australia.
= Paralympics = Other competitions That year, he also competed as part of the national team at the Great Britain Series.
In 2008, he was part of the team that took silver at the Beijing Paralympic test event. At the Rollers World Challenge, he was named as one of the competition"s All-Star Five. Club basketball
Hartnett plays club basketball for the Perth Wheelcats of the Australian National Wheelchair League (NWBL).
In 2010, he was playing club basketball with Lottomattica Elecom of Rome, Italy.
In 2011, he played his club basketball for the Wheelcats. His Perth Wheelcats lost to the Wollongong Roller Hawks in the 2011 NWBL Championship.