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Patrick Anderson

Place of Birth: Fergus, Ont.

Resides: Brooklyn, NY

Birthday: 22-08-1979

Height: 6'4"

Occupation: Athlete / Musician

Club(s): New York Rollin Knicks

Classification: 4.5

Biography

Patrick Anderson is largely considered to be the best wheelchair basketball player in the world and one of the greatest to have ever played the game. His talents on and off the court have garnered him international fame as a great role model and fabulous ambassador of the sport. He is well known for his basketball flair and charismatic personality.

Anderson was born in Edmonton, Alta. and grew up in Fergus, Ont. Like many Canadian kids, he enjoyed playing ice hockey and other sports. In 1989, at the age of 9, he was struck by a drunk driver and lost both of his legs below the knee. He discovered wheelchair basketball in 1990 and his natural athletic ability and tenacity quickly transferred over to the basketball court.

With Paralympic aspirations fuelling his competitive fire, Anderson worked his way up to the National Team in 1997. He also earned a wheelc

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Pat talks about his journey from growing up in Fergus and his accident to his journey in wheelchair basketball and his music career in this month’s Athlete Spotlight presented by Toyota

I was born in Edmonton but moved to Fergus, Ontario when I was three. My memories of Edmonton are more from visiting my dad’s side of the family every few years: we’d go to the water park at West Edmonton Mall.

Fergus was a small town of maybe 10,000 people when I was growing up, and I’m one of seven kids in the family, so we were very much free-range kids: outside all day, be back home by supper kind of thing. So we had a lot of freedom to bike, run around, and climb trees. It was a lovely place to grow up.

I’m the fifth among my siblings – the last born in Edmonton. I was the original baby in the family, so I developed some of those personality traits as the baby of the family, but then along came my brother and sister a few years later.

With seven of us, something was always going on, someone to play with and hang out with. There was never too much attention paid to you, for better or

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