Background
Tracey Ferguson was born on September 7, 1974 in Holland Landing, Ontario. Her mother was unsure about this sport as she thought her five foot tall daughter was too small to compete.
Tracey Ferguson was born on September 7, 1974 in Holland Landing, Ontario. Her mother was unsure about this sport as she thought her five foot tall daughter was too small to compete.
University of Illinois system.
She was the last of six children and her initial ambition was to be a swimmer. She was left paralysed after an operation on her spine at the age of nine, but four years later she was being introduced to wheelchair basketball. In 1991, Ferguson got into a third place at Stoke Mandeville Games which were hosted in Buckinghamshire, England and in 1992 got into the first place at the Paralympic Games in Barcelona.
From 1994 she got into a first place not once, but four times in four years.
First, she got a first place at the World championships at both Stoke Mandeville in 1994 supporting the captain Linda Kutrowski and that year"s star Chantal Benoit. Her second World Championship was at Sydney in 1998.
In 1998 and 2000 she got first place again at the 1996 Paralympic Games and the 2000 as well.
In the same years she was honoured to be chosen as a member of a world team