Jeremy Doyle

Jeremy "JD" Doyle (2 November 1983 – 18 December 2011) was an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He became paraplegic due to being run over by a truck and competed in the 2009 Paralympic World Cup and the 2010 World Championship. He died of cancer in 2011 at the age of 28.

Early and personal life Doyle was born on 19 November 1983. He became a paraplegic at the age of four after being struck by a car. He worked for ING in 2009. In 2010, he was diagnosed with bladder cancer. In August 2011, while he was preparing for the 2012 London Paralympics, the cancer returned and he was diagnosed as terminally ill. On 2 December 2011, Doyle married Melanie Carr, whom he had met online in April 2011, at Campbelltown Hospital. His basketball teammates nicknamed him JD. His jersey number was 14. The team won a gold medal in both.

He competed at the 2009 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championship, where his team finished first.

Doyle also played wheelchair hockey; he was a member of Australia's national team. As of December 2011, he is the league's leading scorer for the 2011/2012 season.

Doyle participated at the World Cyber Games in Counter-Strike, where he represented Australia in 2001 and again in 2006.