Teisha Shadwell

Teisha Shadwell (born 2003) is an Australian 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player. In May 2019, she was part of the Australian Devils U25 team that won silver at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphanburi, Thailand.

Biography Teisha Shadwell began playing basketball when she was five years old, and played at the state level when she was nine. She won a Grand Final playing with the Knox Raiders Under 12 team, and was named MVP for that game. She went on to be selected for the Victorian Under 14 and Under 15 state sides.

In 2016, Shadwell played with the Knox 14.1 team that won both the Melbourne United Victorian Junior Basketball League (VJBL) Victorian Championship and then, in September 2016, the Australian Under 14 Club Championships in Newcastle. She had been feeling considerable pain, and after the match, CT scans revealed that she had been playing the whole week with breaks in bones in her hand and both her feet. Her hand healed well, but the navicular bone fractures did not. and Basketball Victoria's Charles Ryan award for Wheelchair Athlete Of The Year. A series of fundraisers, including a campaign on GoFundMe, raised money for a custom-built wheelchair.

Shadwell currently plays D-1 wheelchair basketball at the University of Arizona.