COVENTRY wheelchair basketball athletes Charlotte Moore and Peter Cusack will represent Great Britain at the upcoming European Championships.
Moore and Cusack form part of a 24-player squad selected by British Wheelchair Basketball for the European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The competition runs from Friday, October 10 to Saturday, October 18 with GB’s men’s and women’s teams both in action.
Moore is a three-time Paralympian and made her debut for GB in 2013 at the European Championships.
She made history at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games after helping Team England win bronze in the event’s first-ever appearance at the Games.
Cusack made his GB debut at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games where he helped Britain win silver.
Moore said: “As always, it’s an honour to represent Great Britain. European Championships are always a lot of fun.
“Every other year you get to see some different places for a tournament, so I’m really excited to go.
“I have never been to Bosnia and Herzegovina, I don’t know what to expect but we shall find out.
“It’s always nice to represent good old Cov in the grand scheme of things. I think it’s really cool that myself and Peter Cusack both grew up around Coventry and have made the team.
“We both started in Cov, and now we’re off to the Europeans.
“I think it’s really important that wheelchair basketball is exposed to people, because you don’t know it’s for you until you’re around it.
“I think out of all of the disability sports, what’s really good about wheelchair basketball is that it brings a lot of people together.
“You know, you might feel isolated or you struggle to do things, but there’s always someone in a team that you can relate to.
“I think that that’s one of the key things to just show that it is for everyone, there’s so many different classifications, all disabilities, we will play on that same court, we’re all together.”
Cusack added: “I’m super excited to be selected. It’s been a long summer and I cannot wait to get to Sarajevo now, hope we get the job done and medal.
“Paris [2024] was very bittersweet as it was my first senior tournament and I was cutting my teeth a bit.
“It feels good now, I’ve hopefully got a slightly bigger role in the squad and I’m enjoying it.
“We’re going for gold again this year. That’s the plan – it is that simple really. We’re going there to win, and we won’t be happy unless we do.
“I played for my club in Coventry for a long time, so it’s nice to represent them as well.
“We’ve got a couple of ex-Coventry players in in the GB teams across the men and the women. It’s the city of culture.”
GB’s men’s team went undefeated at the European Championships in 2023 en route to winning gold.
Britain’s women won silver in 2023 and have lost each of the last three finals to The Netherlands.
