Joy Haizelden

Joy Haizelden (born 1 December 1998) is a 2.5 point British wheelchair basketball player who was the youngest player to represent Great Britain at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. She also went to Paris to compete at the 2024 Paralympics.

Biography Joy Haizelden was born on 1 December 1998. Joy was abandoned outside an orphanage in China. She was adopted by a British couple, Jim and Margaret Haizelden, who took her to live in Southampton, in Hampshire, in 2005. She was a student at The Kings School. and was part of England South's team at the Sainsbury 2013 School Games, winning bronze. The following year, she was part of Team Great Britain at the Osaka Cup in Japan in February, winning silver, and at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing in July, winning gold. The senior team then defeated France to take bronze in the 2015 European Championship in Worcester. The British team produced its best ever performance at the Paralympics, making it all the way to the semi-finals, but lost to the semi-final to the United States, and then the bronze medal match to the Netherlands.

Achievements 2014: Fifth at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship (Toronto, Canada) 2015: Silver at the Osaka Cup (Osaka, Japan) 2016: Fourth at the 2016 Paralympics (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 2017: Bronze at the European Championships (Tenerife, Spain) 2018: Silver at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Hamburg, Germany) 2019: Silver at the 2019 European Championships (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) 2021: Silver at the 2021 European Championships (Madrid, Spain) 2023: Silver at the 2023 European Championships (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

NWBA intercollegiate

3× Champion (2022, 2023, 2024) 1× Rookie Team All American (2022 ) 1× 2st team All American (2022 )