Bridie Kean
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Kean
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 Australia
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27 February 1987 Parkdale, Victoria, Australia |
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 4.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Minecraft Comets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bridie Kean (born 27 February 1987) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and canoeist. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, and a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. In 2016, she became a va'a world champion.
Kean was born 27 February 1987. When she was two, her feet were amputated due to meningococcal septicaemia. She is nicknamed Bird because her friend Kate Dunstan in high school thought it was funny that her name sounded like Bird. Then, when she moved to the United States, her friends struggled to pronounce her first name correctly – it rhymes with "tidy" – when she was living there. And so, the nickname stuck. Her hometown is Parkdale, Victoria. An award in Kean's honour, acknowledging qualities of compassion and bravery, is each year presented to a student at Kilbreda College, where she went to school. As of 2012[update], she lives in Alexandra Headland, Queensland.
Kean did a gap year in England in 2005. She earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2010, and in graduated with a Master of Public Health from the University of Queensland. In 2015, she was working on her PhD in Health Promotion at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She became the manager of its Sports Elite and Education Dual (SEED) program, which enabled elite athletes with a disability to combine study with high performance training and competition, in 2016.
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