Clare Nott
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Nott
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 Australia
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11 August 1986 Newcastle, New South Wales |
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 1.0 | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's team | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Kilsyth Cobras and Red Dust Heelers | |||||||||||||||
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Clare Nott (née Burzynski) (born 11 August 1986) is an Australian 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player who plays for the Kilsyth Cobras in the Women's national Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL) and for the Red Dust Heelers in the mixed National Wheelchair basketball League (NWBL). She participated in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where she won a bronze medal, and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a silver medal.
A paraplegic as a result of a car crash, Nott was named the WNWBL's Best New Talent in 2005. She was the league's Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the 1 point class and a member of its All Star Five in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015. She has also won four National League premierships with the Wheelcats and two National Women's League premierships with the Western Stars (2013) and the Kilsyth Cobras (2015). She made her debut with the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in a tournament in Canada in 2005, and has since played 141 international games. She won gold medals at the 2009, 2010 and 2012 Osaka Cups in Japan.
Clare Louise Burzynski was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, on 11 August 1986, the daughter of Eddie and Barbara Burzynski. She has an older sister, Lauren. All four members of the family were injured in a car accident on 28 June 1989, while holidaying in Queensland. Clare was treated at the hospital in Nambour, Queensland and then at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane. It was discovered that her spinal cord was severed at the T8 spinal nerve, rendering her a paraplegic.
Burzynski was educated at Tranby College from 1996 to 2000, and at Ormiston College from 2000 to 2004. As of 2013[update] lives in Landsdale, Western Australia, and attended Murdoch University, where she graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor of Legal Studies and Criminology degree. She is married to Lee Nott, and works as a legal secretary. Before becoming a basketball player, she competed in swimming from 1998 to 2004.
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