Wheelchair basketballers from the East among those heading to the Commonwealth Games

Players from Norwich and Southend are heading to Birmingham

Author: Abi SimpsonPublished 13th Jul 2022

The Wheelchair Basketball team representing Team England for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has been unveiled in Aylesbury!

Last Friday (8/7) the athletes met up at the Stoke Mandeville stadium for pre-competition training.

The whole team was excited to be representing the country in the games with the competition slogan “Bring It Home”.

Among those included in the line up for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham are Amy Conroy from Norwich and Charlie McIntyre from Southend.

Full team:

Women

Jade Atkin – Portsmouth

Amy Conroy – London (from Norwich)

Joy Haizelden – Southampton

Charlotte Moore – Coventry

Men

Tyler Baines – Barrow-in-Furness

Lee Manning – Wolverhampton (from Peterborough)

Charlie McIntyre – Southend

Abderrahim Taghrest – Hertfordshire

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