WILLIAMS Jacob

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
1	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
2	Men	2018	Hamburg, GER

Exercising. (thbulls.com, Feb 2020)

Athlete

Health Studies - University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI, USA

English, French

CD Ilunion [Madrid, ESP] since 2020

Miguel Vaquero [club]; Ron Lykins [national], USA

Guard (thbulls.com, 27 Feb 2020)

2013 for United States, in Bogota, Colombia (Athlete, 02 May 2016)

Division de Honor [ESP] (Instagram profile, 26 Apr 2021)

He took up wheelchair basketball at age 16 in 2008 in Milwaukee, WI, United States of America. (Athlete, 02 May 2016)

He was encouraged to give the sport a try after a friend visited him in hospital and gave him contact information of a local coach who helped him start playing four months after his accident. "I was really good at it from the beginning. I always wanted to play sports as I was very active as a child. After the accident it took me 18 months to come to terms with what happened, and wheelchair basketball helped me a lot." (National Wheelchair Basketball Association YouTube channel, 19 Aug 2016; teamusa.org, 26 Aug 2018)

Winning gold at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru. (Instagram profile, 28 Sep 2019)

"People say not to bite off more that you can chew, I would rather choke on greatness than nibble on mediocrity." (teamusa.org, 26 Aug 2018)