COVENTRY pair Charlotte Moore and Peter Cusack will represent Great Britain as part of Team GB’s wheelchair basketball squad at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Moore forms part of a 12-strong women’s squad and is returning to the Games for a third time after helping Britain finish fourth at Rio 2016 and achieved a quarter-final finish at Tokyo 2020.
The Coventry native plays her club basketball in Spain and won a domestic treble of league, Copa Del Rey and the prestigious EuroCup with Albacete in her first season.
She made her international debut at the 2013 European Championships in Frankfurt where she won bronze.
Since then Moore has won two further bronze medals and three silver medals on the international stage including a historic World Championship silver with Great Britain in 2018.
Moore just missed out on a medal at the Rio 2016 Games as Britain lost in the bronze medal match.
She also made history at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, as Team England won bronze in wheelchair basketball’s first appearance at the event.
The women’s squad comprises of: Moore, Sophie Carrigill, Jodie Waite, Joy Haizelden, Laurie Williams, Maddie Martin, Robyn Love, Amy Conroy, Helen Freeman, Jade Atkin, Lucy Robinson and Katie Morrow.
Coventry’s Cusack also features in the men’s squad and is making his Olympic debut in Paris this summer.
Cusack took up the sport fully with local club Coventry CWBA after first trying the sport at a Paralympic sports day following London 2012.
He also helped the under-23 team win their first World Championship title in 2017 and currently plays his club basketball in Spain.
Cusack said: “I’m very excited to be heading to Paris for my first Paralympic Games.
“I still don’t think it’s really sunk in yet but the closer we get to it, the more training camps we do, the more excited I’m getting.
“We’re starting to get bits of our kit now including our game vests, so it’s all starting to feel very real.”
Britain’s men’s team won bronze at Tokyo 2020 after beating Spain in the bronze medal match.
The men’s squad comprises of: Cusack, Abdi Jama, Jim Palmer, Simon Brown, Kyle Marsh, Greg Warburton, Harry Brown, Phil Pratt, Ben Fox, Lee Fryer, Lee Manning and Terry Bywater.
Wheelchair basketball will take place on all 11 days of competition in the Bercy Arena from August 29 to September 8.
