Matthew McShane

Matthew McShane (born 1 November 1990) is a 1.5 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He was a member of the Rollers team that competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, his second Games.

Biography Matthew McShane was born on 1 November 1990. When he was 18, he contracted transverse myelitis, a neurological condition in which the spinal cord is inflamed, that left him paraplegic. Coming home from his work one day, he suddenly found that he was unable to move. He was in hospital and rehabilitation for nine months.

He has completed a Bachelor of Industrial Design at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University.

Basketball McShane had always enjoyed sports, particularly Australian football, surfing and Skateboarding. During rehabilitation, he was introduced to wheelchair basketball, The Rollers were defeated by the United States, and won silver. He was one of five Rollers selected for their first Paralympics

In 2018, he was a member of the Rollers that won the bronze medal at 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany.

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Rollers finished fifth with a win–loss record of 4–4.