Stephanie Wheeler
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| Born | 16 January 1981 Norlina, North Carolina, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Stephanie Wheeler (born January 16, 1981) is an American wheelchair basketball player who was on two gold medal-winning Paralympic teams. She also played on the gold medal-winning team at the 2007 Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro. She received her degree in kinesiology from the University of Illinois and is working on her doctorate in sports education from the University of Alabama. As of 2010 she is head coach of the University of Illinois wheelchair basketball team, and will return to the Paralympic games in Rio in 2016, now as a coach.