Puisand Lai

Puisand Lai (born July 29, 2000) is a Canadian wheelchair tennis and 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player. In 2018, she was part of the Canadian national women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg.

Biography Puisand Lai was born in Honolulu County, Hawaii, on July 29, 2000. When she was six years old, she was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition in which the spinal cord is inflamed. one of only three such camps worldwide. By 2017, she was ranked 7th in the ITF rankings for girls' wheelchair tennis, and 73rd in the women's. She was a member of Canada's 2017 World Team Cup junior team, competing in Sardinia, Italy after the team earned a wild card spot from the International Tennis Federation.

Lai also participated in sledge hockey, sailing and wheelchair basketball, where she was classified as a 1.0 point player, and began playing competitively in 2014. She was noticed by Kathy Ludwig, the Ontario coach, who asked her to join Team Ontario. In 2018, she was part of the Canadian national women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg.

, she is studying engineering at McMaster University.