Rebecca Murray
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.jpg) Murray at the 2024 Summer Paralympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Rebecca Marie Murray |
Nickname | Becca |
| Born | March 15, 1990 |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball |
| Disability class | 2.5 |
| Coached by | Christina Schwab |
Rebecca Marie Murray (born March 15, 1990) is an American wheelchair basketball player and member of the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team. She is a three-time Parapan American Games gold medalist in 2007, 2011 and 2023. In 2010, she won two more gold medals at IWBF World Championship and at U25 World Championship in 2011.
Murray was born on March 15, 1990, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to parents Richard and Linda Murray.[1] She was born with spina bifida which paralyzed her from the waist down.[2] She first started playing wheelchair basketball at the age of six through the assistance of the IndependenceFirst organization.[3] Murray remained with the sport and began attending a University of Wisconsin–Whitewater wheelchair basketball camp[4] before joining the Milwaukee Wizards at the age of 12.[1]
Murray graduated from Germantown High School in 2008 and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater for a degree in special education.[1]