Kylie Gauci

Kylie Gauci (born 1 January 1985) is an Australian Paralympic 2-point wheelchair basketball player. She participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, where she won a silver medal; in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where she won a bronze medal, and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a second silver medal. Gauci represented Australia at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 World Championships, and was named to the World All Star 5 at the World Championships in Amsterdam in 2006. She has played over 180 international games.

Playing with the Hill's Hornets, Gauci was named the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL)'s Most Valuable Player (MVP) 2 Pointer and named to the All Star Five on five consecutive occasions. In 2006 she switched to the North's Bears, now known as the Stacks Goudkamp Bears, and was named MVP 2 Pointer and All Star Five six times in a row.

Personal life Gauci was born on 1 January 1985. As of 2012, she lives in Rooty Hill, New South Wales.

Basketball Gauci is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball 2-point player. She began competing in 1996 when she was eleven years old, Her 2008 national team coach Gerry Hewson said, "She's got a really good outside game and she can get inside and mix it with the best."

In the financial year 2012/13, the Australian Sports Commission gave her a A$20,000 grant as part of their Direct Athlete Support program. She received $17,000 in 2010/11 and again in 2011/12 and $5,571.42 in 2009/10. In 2012, she had a scholarship with the New South Wales Institute of Sport.

Club She played for the Hills Hornets in 2000, when they finished second in the Women's National Wheelchair basketball League (WNWBL) final, losing 51–50 to the Victorian Women. With the Hornets, she was named the WNWBL's Most Valuable Player (MVP) 2 Pointer and named to the All Star Five in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. In 2006 she switched to the North's Bears, now known as the Stacks Goudkamp Bears, and was named 2 Pointer MVP and All Star Five in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Since 2008, she has played for the Wenty WheelKings in the National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL). She also plays for the Stacks Goudkamp Bears in the WNWBL.

National team

Gauci first played for the Australian junior national team when she was fourteen years old. in 2002, She was then selected to play at the 2002 World Cup event in Japan. and was a member of the team that played in the Osaka Cup in 2009. Great Britain, and the Netherlands, but lost to Canada. This was enough to advance the Gliders to the quarter-finals, where they beat Mexico. The Gliders then defeated the United States by a point to set up a final clash with Germany. The Gliders lost 44–58, and earned a silver medal. Gauci scored 15 points with 4 rebounds. She was the only player on her team to score a three-point field goal in the whole series, scoring two of them.

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