Donna Ritchie

Donna Ritchie (born 28 December 1963 in Manly, New South Wales is an Australian former wheelchair basketball player. She was part of the silver medal-winning Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.

Personal Richie was born on 28 December 1963 in Manly, New South Wales. Her parents were Ray and Georgina with siblings Sharon and Raymond. Her father, Ray, played first-grade rugby league for the Manly Sea Eagles and served as the team's first-grade coach from 1981 to 1982. At the age of 23, Ritchie broke the T5 and T6 vertebrae in her spine after falling backwards from a stone wall at Manly Beach.

During the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, she met Dutch wheelchair basketballer Koen Jansens.

In the lead-up to the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, Ritchie served as the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee's Community Relations Manager. She has been a board member of the New South Wales Institute of Sport since December 1995. As of 2015, she was the general manager of Investment at Telstra Business and continued to serve as a New South Wales Institute of Sport board member. Australian Sports Medal Northern Beaches Sporting Hall of Fame – inducted in 2003