CRONJE Jess

Jess (Facebook profile, 03 Jan 2015)

English

New South Wales Institute of Sport [NSWIS] [Sydney, NSW, AUS]

Craig Friday [national]

Forward (australia.basketball, 14 Feb 2015)

Her father has competed in equestrian jumping at national level in Australia. (insidethegames.biz, 02 Nov 2020)

She has competed in Para athletics at national junior level in Australia, and Para swimming at state junior level in Australia. (southwestvoice.com.au, 10 Aug 2015; wsnsw.org.au, 02 Mar 2013; wsnsw.org.au, Nov 2012)

2015 for Australia (paralympic.org.au, 14 Feb 2015)

She took up the sport in 2012. (paralympic.org.au, 14 Feb 2015)

She originally tried Para swimming and Para athletics before switching to wheelchair basketball. She was encouraged to try the sport after meeting a wheelchair basketball player at an athletics competition. "He convinced me to go to a come and try day and it was love at first try. I struggled at first because I had to push the chair and dribble the ball at the same time, and then I had to learn how to turn as well. But I had better endurance - I could whizz up and down the court in that chair, it was perfect for me." (paralympic.org.au, 14 Feb 2015; insidethegames.biz, 02 Nov 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (commonwealthgames.com.au, 27 Jul 2021)

Australian wheelchair basketball player Bridie Kean. (paralympic.org.au, 14 Feb 2015)

Her mother. (paralympic.org.au, 14 Feb 2015)

In 2015 she was named Athlete of the Year by the South West Sydney Academy of Sports in Australia and Young Athlete of the Year with a Disability at the New South Wales Sports Awards. (southwestvoice.com.au, 10 Aug 2015; cdn.revolutionise.com.au, 01 Jan 2019)