{{Short description|British wheelchair basketball player}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox sportsperson| | headercolor = darkblue | textcolor = white | name = Sophie Carrigill | image = File:Sophie Carrigill.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Sophie Carrigill at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing | fullname = | nicknames = | nationality = {{GBR}} | club = Leeds Spiders<br/>Coyotes | collegeteam = | birth_date ={{birth date and age|1994|1|19|df=y}} | birth_place = Leeds, West Yorkshire | death_date = | death_place = | height = 5 ft 8 in | weight = | country = Great Britain | sport = Wheelchair basketball | event = Women's team | disability_class = 1.0 | medaltemplates= {{MedalSport |Wheelchair basketball}} {{MedalCompetition|U25 Women's World Championships}} {{MedalGold|2015 Beijing, China|Women's wheelchair basketball}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalBronze|2013 Frankfurt, Germany|Women's wheelchair basketball}} {{MedalBronze|2015 Worcester, United Kingdom|Women's wheelchair basketball}} {{MedalBronze|2017 Tenriffe, Spain|Women's wheelchair basketball}} {{MedalCompetition|Women's World Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2018 Hamburg, Germany|Women's wheelchair basketball}} }}
'''Sophie Carrigill''' (born 19 January 1994) is a 1.0 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto and the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
==Biography== Sophie Carrigill was born on 19 January 1994.<ref name="gbwba">{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/gb-teams/gb-players/gb-women/sophie-carrigill/ |title=Sophie Carrigill |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=3 July 2015 }}</ref> She attended Wakefield Girls' High School, where she played netball, hockey, and tennis. During a family holiday in the United States in 2010, she was a passenger in a car that crashed into a tree. Despite being the only person in the vehicle wearing a seat belt, she spent two months in hospital, where many of her organs were damaged and some removed including her gall bladder. Her kidney was damaged, and she fractured her T6 thoracic vertebrae,<ref name="gbwba" /><ref name="Sporty Sophie">{{cite news |url=http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/local-news/sporty-sophie-gets-back-up-1-4413850 |title=Sporty Sophie gets Back Up |newspaper=Wakefield Express |date=4 April 2012 |accessdate=3 July 2015 }}</ref> leaving her paralysed from the waist down. She subsequently spent two months in rehabilitation in the spinal unit at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.<ref name="Sporty Sophie" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/local-news/pinderfields-spinal-injuries-unit-inspires-runners-after-treating-olympic-hopeful-sophie-carrigill-1-6441215 |title=Pinderfields spinal injuries unit inspires runners after treating Olympic hopeful Sophie Carrigill |newspaper=Wakefield Express |date=16 February 2014 |accessdate=3 July 2015 }}</ref>
Carrigill took up playing wheelchair basketball. Within a year of playing her first game, she was selected to represent the eventual silver medallists Yorkshire in the U19 event at The Lord's Taverners National Junior Championships in 2012. She played for the Leeds Spiders in Divisions 1 and 3 of the BWB National League, and the Coyotes in the Standard Life GB Women's National League.<ref name="gbwba" /> She was chosen to carry the Olympic torch when it passed through Dewsbury in June 2012,<ref name="Sporty Sophie" /> received the Harry Mills Team Maker Award at the Youth Sport Trust National Talent Orientation Camp in 2013,<ref name="gbwba" /> and was awarded the ICAP Beckwith Scholarship. That year she took her A-levels in Psychology, Physical Education, and English Language, and entered the University of Worcester, where she studied Sports Psychology.<ref name="gbwba" />
In April 2013, Carrigill made her international debut in a tournament against the Netherlands.<ref name="Sophie makes international debut">{{cite web |url=http://www.wgsf.org.uk/wghs-senior/news/view/sophie-makes-international-debut-for-gb-wheelchair-basketball-squad |date=30 April 2013 |title=Sophie makes international debut for GB Wheelchair Basketball Squad |publisher=Wakefield Girls' High School |accessdate=3 July 2015 }}</ref> She went on to represent Britain at the European Championships in Frankfurt later the same year, winning bronze, and was captain of the team at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto the following year.<ref name="gbwba" /> She played in the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/GBWBA/index.cfm/news/great-britain-team-announced-for-2015-womene28099s-u25-world-wheelchair-basketball-championships/ |title=Great Britain Team announced for 2015 Women's U25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=3 July 2015 }}</ref> winning gold,<ref name="U25">{{cite web |url=http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/news/great-britain-crowned-womens-u25-world-champions/ |title=Great Britain crowned Women's U25 World Champions! |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |accessdate=6 July 2015 }}</ref> and defeated France to take bronze in the 2015 European Championship.<ref name="euro2015"/> In May 2016, she was named as part of the team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/british-women-s-wheelchair-basketball-team-named-rio |title=British women's wheelchair basketball team named for Rio |date=13 May 2016 |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=6 September 2016}}</ref> The British team produced its best ever performance at the Paralympics, making it all the way to the semi-finals, but lost to the semi-final to the United States, and then the bronze medal match to the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/sport/14748897.GB_women___s_wheelchair_basketball_team_miss_out_on_bronze_medal_to_dominant_Dutch_in_Rio/ |title=University of Worcester-based GB women's wheelchair basketball team miss out on bronze medal to dominant Dutch in Rio Paralympics |newspaper=Worcester News |first=Geoff |last=Berkeley |date=17 September 2016 |access-date=18 September 2016 }}</ref>
On 29 May 2021, she appeared on I Can See Your Voice with her boyfriend Josh Landmann, another Paralympian.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/tv-guide-tv-television-tonight/|title=What's on TV tonight: The Masked Dancer, Cher, Sir Alex, The Queen Mother, and more|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=7 February 2020 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=29 May 2021}}</ref>
==Achievements== * 2013: Bronze at European Championships (Frankfurt, Germany) <ref name="gbwba" /> * 2014: Fifth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship (Toronto, Canada) * 2015: Gold at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Beijing, China) <ref name="U25" /> * 2015: Bronze at the European Championships (Worcester, England) <ref name="euro2015">{{cite web |url=http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1029917/germany-earn-10th-womens-european-wheelchair-basketball-championship-title-as-hosts-britain-win-mens-gold |title=Germany earn 10th women's European Wheelchair Basketball Championship title as hosts Britain win men's gold |date=6 September 2015 |publisher=Inside the Games |accessdate=9 September 2015 }}</ref> * 2016: Fourth at the 2016 Paralympics (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/rio-2016/eng/wb/engwb_wheelchair-basketball-summary-women-s.htm |title=Summary - Wheelchair Basketball |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=11 February 2017 }}</ref> * 2017: Bronze at the European Championships (Tenerife, Spain)<ref name="Team GB">{{cite web |url=http://www.britishwheelchairbasketball.co.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/gb-teams/gb-players/gb-women/sophie-carrigill/ |title=Sophie Carrigill |publisher=British Wheelchair Basketball |access-date=1 September 2018 }}</ref> * 2018: Silver at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Hamburg, Germany) <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fibalivestats.com/u/IWBFW/916102/bs.html |title=NED v GBR |publisher=FIBA LiveStats |access-date=1 September 2018 }}</ref>
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==External links== * {{cite web |url=http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/aspire/videos/sophie-tells-her-story-of-spinal-cord-injury-11592 |title=Sophie tells her story of Spinal Cord Injury |accessdate=3 July 2015 }} (Video) * {{YouTube|WulUrKWu9is|Sophie Carrigill - University of Worcester}} 16 April 2015 (Video) {{Great Britain national women's wheelchair basketball team - 2024 Summer Paralympics}} {{Great Britain national women's wheelchair basketball team - 2016 Summer Paralympics}} {{Portal bar|Biography|Sports}}
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