Nationality Canada Event(s) Women's team Disability class 2.0 Height 1.37 m | Sport Wheelchair basketball Role Basketball Player Country Canada Name Katie Harnock | |
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Born August 12, 1983 (age 40) ( 1983-08-12 ) Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | ||
College team University of Alabama | ||
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Katie Harnock (born August 12, 1983) is a Canadian 2.0 point Paralympic wheelchair basketball player.
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Ipc blogger katie harnock canadian wheelchair basketball player paralympics 2012
Biography
Katie Harnock was born in Kitchener, Ontario, on August 12, 1983. She attended St. David Catholic Secondary School. She commenced playing wheelchair basketball in 1993, when she was just 10 years old, after she received a local club's brochure in the mail. She joined her local team in Kitchener when she was 13. In 1998 she was named the Junior Female Athlete of the Year by the Ontario Wheelchair Sports Association. She joined the senior national team in 2006, and made her Paralympic debut at the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing, where Canada came fifth. In 2012, she participated in the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London, where Canada came sixth. She attended the University of Alabama, where she studied English, graduating in 2013.
Harnock was part of the team that won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto in July 2014, and silver at the 2015 Parapan American Games in August 2015.