Samuel White (basketball)
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White at the 2024 Summer Paralympics | |
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| Position | Guard |
| Disability class | 1.0 |
| Club | Darwin Salties |
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Samuel "Sammy" White is a 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He was a member of the Rollers team that competed at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.[1][2]
White was born on 19 June 1987.[3] In 2010, a motorcycle accident left him without the use of his legs. White moved from Adelaide to Wisconsin with his family to join the University of Washington wheelchair basketball team while studying information technology systems. At the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater he completed Bachelor of Business Administration and Information Technology and MSE-PD Athletic Administration and Higher Education Leadership.