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Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy (born 21 June 1986) is a 4.0 point Australian wheelchair basketball player who plays forward-centre. She was part of the bronze medal-winning Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. Active in fund raising from an early age, O'Kelly-Kennedy took a group of children with missing limbs to the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, where she saw the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in action for the first time, and was inspired to take up wheelchair basketball. She entered the University of Illinois on a half-scholarship in 2005, and won three US National Championships with its Women's team. By 2006, she was part of the Gliders team that finished fourth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Amsterdam in 2006. She played professionally in Italy in 2010-11 with Sassari and with Elecom Roma in 2011-12. Although not selected for the Gliders team that played at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London, she won a Bronze Medal with Elecom Roma in the Men's European Championships that year and returned to the Gliders line up for the Osaka Cup in 2013 and for the 2013 Asian Qualifiers in Thailand for the World Championships to be held in Canada on 19-29 June 2014. ==Personal== O'Kelly-Kennedy was born on 21 June 1986. At birth one of her legs was shorter than the other, and her right foot was amputated when she was eighteen months old.〔〔 She attended Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School and Luther College in the outer-eastern Melbourne suburb of Croydon. She has regularly represented the Royal Children's Hospital on television and in newspapers for the Good Friday Appeal. In 2000, she was involved in fund raising to take a group of children with missing limbs to the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, where they became a cheer squad. In Sydney, she saw the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in action for the first time.〔〔 She later founded a charitable organisation, Set No Limits and in 2013 helped establish the Red Dust Heelers Healing thru Wheeling program which has a focus on connecting Indigenous young people with disability to sport, education, employment and lifestyle opportunities. She has modelled for Vertically Blessed, a clothing company,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kathleen O’Kelly-Kennedy )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Plenary Group Sponsors Australian Wheelchair Basketballer )〕 and has gone by a number of nicknames, including Kat, Kitty, Blondie and Felix.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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