Kylie Gauci
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Gauci
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| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Born | 1 January 1985 |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball |
| Disability class | 2.0 |
| Event(s) | Women's team |
| Club | Stacks Goudkamp Bears |
Kylie Gauci (born 1 January 1985) is an Australian Paralympic 2-point wheelchair basketball player. She participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, where she won a silver medal; in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where she won a bronze medal, and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a second silver medal. Gauci represented Australia at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 World Championships, and was named to the World All Star 5 at the World Championships in Amsterdam in 2006. She has played over 180 international games.
Playing with the Hill's Hornets, Gauci was named the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL)'s Most Valuable Player (MVP) 2 Pointer and named to the All Star Five on five consecutive occasions. In 2006 she switched to the North's Bears, now known as the Stacks Goudkamp Bears, and was named MVP 2 Pointer and All Star Five six times in a row.
Gauci was born on 1 January 1985. She was born with lumbar sacral agenesis, meaning that she is missing the lower part of her spine. In 2008 and 2009, she was the Australian Paralympic Committee's New South Wales Assistant. As of 2012, she lives in Rooty Hill, New South Wales.
Gauci is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball 2-point player. She began competing in 1996 when she was eleven years old, and was inspired to play for the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team after watching their performance at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. She enjoys the physical aspects of the game: "I'm a big fan of the big hits in rugby league. The aggression in wheelchair basketball is not as fierce, but it's as close as I'm likely to get." Her 2008 national team coach Gerry Hewson said, "She's got a really good outside game and she can get inside and mix it with the best."
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