Background
Cindy Ouellet was born on December 8, 1988 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada.
Cindy Ouellet was born on December 8, 1988 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada.
At age 12 she was diagnosed with bone cancer which quickly ended her dream of becoming a soccer player and skier. Ouellet took up wheelchair basketball in 2005. She is classified as a 3.5 point player.
She made her Paralympic debut at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.
In 2011, Ouellet joined Canada"s first-ever Women"s U25 National Team, which she led at the inaugural Women"s U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Saint Catharines, Ontario, in July 2011. Ouellet was named to the all-star team and finished fourth in overall tournament scoring.
She was named Most Valuable Player of the 2011 CWBL Women's National Championships after leading Quebec to its first-ever gold medal victory. As of 2014, she is attending University of Alabama, where she wants to get Doctor of Philosophy in biomedical engineering, and participates in the women"s wheelchair basketball team there.
In 2013, she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and was again named Most Valuable Player at the CWBL Women"s Championship.