Amanda Yan

Amanda Yan

Team Canada – No 14 – Amanda Yan
Personal information
Nationality	Canada
Born	(1988-05-22) May 22, 1988 (age 29) Burnaby, British Columbia
Height	5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Sport
Sport	Wheelchair basketball
Disability class	3.0
Event(s)	Women's team
Team	BC Breakers
Medal record Wheelchair basketball 2014 World Championships Women's wheelchair basketball

Amanda Yan (born May 22, 1988) is a Canadian 3.0 point wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis player who won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. She was also a national champion in shot put in 2012.

Amanda Yan was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, on May 22, 1988. She attended Burnaby Central Secondary School, where as a teenager she was an active athlete who played basketball, volleyball and track and field athletics. She then became a student at Simon Fraser University.

On April 19, 2008 Yan was snowboarding at Whistler, British Columbia, when the edge of her snowboard became caught on a cat track, causing her to slide off the Crystal Road run — rated a beginner's run — and fall 30 metres (98 ft) off a cliff. She suffered horrific injuries, dislocating two vertebrae and fracturing three, as well as fracturing her right femur and right wrist, and suffering brain, lung and kidney damage. She was airlifted to hospital, where she was informed that there was little chance that she would ever walk again. Months of rehabilitation at the GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver followed.

During rehabilitation Yan was introduced to the sport of wheelchair basketball. Classified as a 3.0 point player, she began playing in her local competition in 2011. She was named the BC-CWBL Division 2's Most Improved Player for 2011-12. The following season saw her playing for the BC Breakers, who went on to win the 2012 national championship title. The BC Breakers came fourth in 2013, but Yan was named to the Championship's All-Star Five. She also began playing with the BC Royals in the men's league.