Liesl Tesch

Liesl Tesch, AM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and sailor. She became an incomplete paraplegic after a mountain bike accident at the age of 19. She competed in her national wheelchair basketball team at five paralympics, winning three medals, and was the first woman to play the sport professionally. She took up sailing in 2010, winning a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

Tesch was born in Brisbane onMay 1969. In a 2012 interview, she described her parents as alternative and said of her father that he would have rather philosophised than worked because he didnt like working for a capitalist society. ... We lived off the land as much as we could, eating roadkill. She grew up in Brisbane, New Zealand, and the Lake Macquarie suburb of Coal Point and attended Toronto High School. She participated in basketball, swimming, sailing, windsurfing, and cycling as a child, and was part of the state basketball team in yearsandat high school. At the age of 19, she broke her back after a mountainbike accident, becoming an incomplete paraplegic. She received a Bachelor of Science and a Diploma of Education from the University of Newcastle.

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