Phil Evans (basketball)
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 Evans at the 2024 Summer Paralympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Australia |
| Born | 18 September 1990 |
| Sport | |
| Disability class | 2.0 |
| Club | Perth Wheelcats |
Philip "Phil" Evans (born 18 September 1990) is a 2.0 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He was a member of the Rollers at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.[1]
Evans was born on 18 September 1990 and his hometown is Perth, Western Australia.[2] He attended Sacred Heart College, Sorrento.[3] In September 2013, after having celebrating a premiership football win with friends, crashed his car on the way home.[4] The car accident him fracturing his T-11 and T-12 vertebrae, paralysing him from the waist down.[4] In 2018, Evans was awarded the Craig H Nielsen Scholarship, at the University of Arizona, where he majored in business.[5][3]
In 2024, he is employed at the University of Western Australia as an Inclusion Coordinator.[3]