Women’s U25 National Team

The Women’s U25 National Team helps to develop the top young Canadian female athletes in preparation for the Women’s U25 World Championships, which are hosted every four years by the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF). Players must be 25 years old or younger to be eligible to compete.

Canada hosted the inaugural world championship for junior women in 2011, where the first-ever Canadian Women’s U25 National Team placed fourth.

Major International Success

IWBF Women’s U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship

• 2023 – 6th place – Bangkok, Thailand
• 2015 – 4th place – Beijing, China
• 2011 – 4th place – St. Catharines, Canada

Team Roster

• Past Rosters

• Player

  Class

  Club
• 
  #4 Megan Smith
  10-05-2002

  2.0

  BC Grizzlies
• 
  #5 Mercy Nyakundi
  12-03-2005

  2.5

  University of Texas at Arlington
• 
  #7 Katie Bajema
  06-07-2001

  1.0

  Edmonton Inferno
• 
  #8 Maggie Manning
  24-02-2003

  2.0

  BC Breakers
• 
  #9 Lily Brook
  09-01-2005

  4.5

  BC Orcas
• 
  #10 Puisand Lai
  29-07-2000

  1.0
• 
  #11 Charlotte McElroy
  26-09-2008

  2.5

  Burlington Vipers
• 
  #12 Desiree Isaac-Pictou
  10-12-1999

  4.0

  New Brunswick
• 
  #13 Elise Froese
  19-07-2006

  4.5

  University of Arizona
• 
  #14 Kayla MacKinnon
  14-09-2003

  1.5

  Halifax Wheelchair Basketball Club
• 
  #15 Bethany Johnson
  29-11-2001

  4.0

  University of Illinois

Team Staff

• 
  Marni Abbott
  
  10-11-1965

  Head Coach
• Dylan Carter (Toronto, Ont.)—Assistant Coach