Tom Kyle
Tom Kyle at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto
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 Australia
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| Born | 5 June 1959 | |||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's team | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Queensland Spinning Bullets | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Australian women's national wheelchair basketball team | |||||||||||||||
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| Paralympic finals | 2012 Summer Paralympics | |||||||||||||||
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Tom Kyle (born 15 June 1959) is an Australian wheelchair basketball coach who coaches the Queensland Spinning Bullets and the Australian women's national wheelchair basketball team. He was assistant coach of the Australian men's national wheelchair basketball team from 2009 to 2013, during which time it won gold at the IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, and silver at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
Tom Kyle was born on 15 June 1959 in Cooma, New South Wales, where his father worked for the Snowy Mountains scheme. As a boy he played cricket, and was captain of the Australian Capital Territory side at the age of 12. He also played rugby league, rugby union, Australian football, soccer and tennis. He began playing basketball when he was 12 or 13, and played with the Cooma Under 18 team when he was 14, and the senior men's team when he was 16. At that age he also began coaching, his first team being an Under 14 basketball side.
Kyle decided to become a basketball coach, and he repeated Year 12 in order to get sufficient marks for a scholarship to study Physical Education at the Wollongong Institute of Education, which merged with the University of Wollongong in 1982. He completed a double major in Health and Physical Education, receiving degrees from both the Wollongong Institute of Education and the University of Wollongong, from which he graduated in 1983. While there he played basketball for the university, and coached some university sides, learning practical coaching skills from Adrian Hurley.
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