Puisand Lai

Puisand Lai
Team Canada – Puisand Lai
Personal information
Nationality  Canada
Born (2000-07-29) July 29, 2000
Honolulu County, Hawaii
Height 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Sport
Sport Wheelchair basketball
Disability class 1.0
Event(s) Women's team

Puisand Lai (born July 29, 2000) is a Canadian wheelchair tennis and 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player. In 2018, she was part of the Canadian national women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg.

Biography

Puisand Lai was born in Honolulu County, Hawaii, on July 29, 2000.[1] When she was six years old, she was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition in which the spinal cord is inflamed. In October 2013, she joined the Mississauga Little Aces program, a project supported by Tennis Canada and run by the Ontario Racquet Club, which teaches tennis to children between the ages of six and twelve, and children with disabilities between the ages of eight and seventeen. She was soon able to play with against able-bodied children. In July 2014, she represented Tennis Canada in the International Tennis Federation Americas Junior Wheelchair Tennis Camp.[2] By 2017, she was ranked no. 7 in the ITF Rankings for girls' wheelchair tennis, and No. 73 in the women's,[3] and was a member of Canada’s 2017 World Team Cup junior team.[4]

Lai also participated in sledge hockey, sailing and wheelchair basketball,[2] where she was classified as a 1.0 point player, and began playing competitively in 2014. She was noticed by Kathy Ludwig, the Ontario coach, who asked her to join Team Ontario. In 2018, she was part of the Canadian national women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg.[1]

As of 2018, she is studying engineering at McMaster University.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Puisand Lai". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Wheelchair player a hit with Little Aces". Mississauga.com. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Wheelchair - Player Profile - Lai, Puisand (CAN)". ITF Tennis. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Canada's Puisand Lai dazzles on Day 1 of Birmingham Classic". Tennis Canada. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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