Exeter wheelchair basketball player and GB women’s team nominated for Team of the Year

Exeter local, Jude Hamer is having a phenomenal year in her sporting career. A member of Britain’s most successful women’s team in British Wheelchair Basketball’s history, having secured a dramatic silver medal at the 2018 World Championships in Hamburg.

The successful GB Women’s Team have now been shortlisted for Team of the Year at the Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Awards.

The prestigious nomination is deserved recognition following the team’s historic World Championships campaign this August in Hamburg where the team captivated a nation as they broke new ground for British women’s wheelchair basketball. Representing her nation and home town Exeter, Jude travelled to Hamburg to compete in the World Championships alongside her 11 team mates.

The young squad, whose average age is just 23, delivered a stunning display of wheelchair basketball playing 6 games during the qualifying stages of the tournament (with five wins) and taking the win against Paralympic silver medallists Germany in the Semi Finals to secure the silver medal for GB.

They are the first GB women’s team ever to secure a place in a major final, and the first in history to bring home the silver medal from a World Championships.

This success marks the current GB women’s squad as the most successful team in British Wheelchair Basketball’s history – the squad who finished fourth in Rio and secured the bronze medal at the Europeans have tipped off their Tokyo campaign with a World Championships silver.

The winner of the Team of the Year Award will be decided through a public vote. Support Jude and her team in their nomination and vote now: https://sportswomenoftheyear.co.uk/awards