SCHNEIDER Natalie

United States of America

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 11 Feb 1983

Age: 38

Gender: Female

Sport Class: 4.5

Place of birth: CRETE, NE

Birth Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Wheelchair Basketball	Women USA United States	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #02 NED Netherlands 68 USA United States 58	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #13 USA United States 68 ESP Spain 34	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #26 USA United States 41 CHN China 42	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Women's Preliminary Round Group B #41 ALG Algeria 21 USA United States 62	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Quarterfinal #54 CAN Canada 48 USA United States 63	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Semifinal #64 USA United States 36 CHN China 41	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Bronze Medal Match #70 GER Germany 51 USA United States 64	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
1	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
1	Women	2008	Beijing, CHN
4	Women	2012	London, GBR
World Championships
1	Women	2010	Birmingham, GBR

Occupation:

Statistics - University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA

Daughters Rowan, Hannah and Tori

Languages spoken:

Lawrence 'Trooper' Johnson [national], USA

Sporting relatives:

Her father Dennis has coached high school and college basketball in the United States of America. (lmef.org, 29 Jan 2010)

Other sports:

She played basketball until she was diagnosed with cancer, and sitting volleyball before she began playing wheelchair basketball. (lmef.org, 29 Jan 2010)

2008 for United States, Paralympic Games in Beijing, China (Athlete, 02 May 2016)

She fractured her elbow and strained some ligaments in 2012 during a training camp. It took eight weeks to recover. (Athlete, 02 May 2016)

She began playing the sport at age 22 in Lincoln, NE, United States of America. (Athlete, 02 May 2016)

She was introduced to the sport by her sitting volleyball teammates. "I found out about sitting volleyball in Ohama, Nebraska, and started playing that. Some of my teammates asked if I like basketball and I found out that I could qualify to play." (lmef.org, 29 Jan 2010; National Wheelchair Basketball Association YouTube channel, 22 Aug 2016)

US basketball player Michael Jordan. (nwba.com, 14 Jul 2008)

Philosophy:

"Always do the best you can." (Athlete, 02 May 2016)

General Interest

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (Athlete, 02 May 2016)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (Athlete, 02 May 2016)

Impairment Details
She received a knee and partial femur implant following bone cancer. (Athlete, 02 May 2016)

General
RETIREMENT AND COMEBACKS
She has retired twice in the past, quitting the sport to focus on her family before making a comeback each time. She has three children and previously struggled to balance her career and home life but has since found ways of combining the two. "It's sort of a switch on, switch off for me, thinking about the kids and then coming back to basketball. It's sort of like I live in two separate worlds and have two separate personalities almost. With the kids, they just take up so much of your attention that you're just like on mum mode all the time, and then I come here [to the US Olympic and Paralympic Training Center] and then I get to be Natalie the basketball player while I'm here and that's great." (teamusa.org, 21 Aug 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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