Lucy Robinson (wheelchair basketball)

Lucy Robinson was born on 21 May 1999.^[1][2] She comes from Mountsorrel and is a primary school teacher.^[3] She broke her hip in a roller skating accident. This led to avascular necrosis, a condition causing cellular death in the bone due to interrupted blood supply.^[4]

After her injury she was unable to continue playing association football. As a teenager, she started playing wheelchair basketball at the Leicester Cobras club in Leicester after a wheelchair basketball trial event at the club.^[5] She studied at the Sheffield Hallam University.^[6] She is a member of Sheffield Hallam Wheelchair Basketball club,^[6][7] and currently plays for Loughborough Lightning Wheelchair Basketball.^[8] She is a 4.5 point player.^[9]

At the 2018 International Wheelchair Basketball Federation U24 European championship, she helped secure a gold medal for Great Britain. She earned a bronze medal at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship.^[1][10][11] She was named 2020 Sportswoman of the Year at the Team Hallam Sports Ball and her team Sheffield Hallam Wheelchair Basketball club was named 2020 Team of the Year.^[12] In 2021 she made her debut appearance as a senior with the Great Britain women's national wheelchair basketball team in the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.^[6] She played for the team again at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.^[13]

Robinson is a part of the LGBTQ+ community.^[14]