Rose Hollermann
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Mankato, Minnesota, U.S.
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| Full name | Rose Marie Hollermann | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 25, 1995 Mankato, Minnesota, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Elysian, Minnesota, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 3.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Texas at Arlington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Christina Schwab | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rose Marie Hollermann (born December 25, 1995) is an American 3.5 point wheelchair basketball player and member of the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team. She who won gold at the 2011, and 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, the 2011, 2015 and 2023 Parapan American Games, and the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She also won bronze at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and the 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships.
Rose Hollermann was born in Mankato, Minnesota, on December 25, 1995, the daughter of John and Michelle Hollermann. She had three brothers: Shane, Ethan, and Seth.[1]
On August 10, 2001, Rose, her mother and three brothers were in a motor vehicle accident outside their home in Elysian, Minnesota. Her two older brothers Ethan and Shane were killed.[2] She had bruising to her spinal cord around the T11 and T12 thoracic vertebrae, leaving her partly paralyzed from the waist down.[3] She can stand, and walk a little, but spends much of her time in a wheelchair.[4]
After the accident, she was sent to the Courage Center in Minnesota, where swimming was part of her therapy. Soon she was swimming competitively.[3] She also took to sled hockey, archery, tennis, cross-country skiing,[2] and track and field sports, including discus, shot put, and distance races while at Waterville-Elysian-Morristown High School.[4] Then she discovered wheelchair basketball, playing with the Courage Center Rolling Timberwolves. In this sport, in which she is classified a 3.5 point player,[5] she was a National Junior champion in 2008, 2009 and 2010. She won a gold medal in 2010 at the U20 World Championship, and then another at the 2011 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in St. Catharines, Canada.[3]
