Ella Sabljak
![]() Ella Sabljak with the Australian Gliders at the 2017 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Beijing in October 2017 | ||||||||||||
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Full name | Ella Louise Sabljak | |||||||||||
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Born | 17 October 1991 | |||||||||||
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Country | Australia | |||||||||||
Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||
Position | Guard | |||||||||||
Disability class | 1.0 | |||||||||||
Event | Women's team | |||||||||||
Club | Minecraft Comets | |||||||||||
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Ella Sabljak (born 17 October 1991) is an Australian 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player.
Biography
Ella Louise Sabljak was born on 17 October 1991.[1] A 1.0 point Guard, she began playing wheelchair basketball for the Brisbane-based Minecraft Comets in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League in 2011.[2] The Comets won the league championship in 2014, a year in which she was named the league Most Valuable Player 1-pointer. In 2015, she averaged three points and four rebounds per game.[1] She also played with the mixed National Wheelchair Basketball League competition.[3]
In 2011, she was part of the Australian junior team (the Devils) at the 2011 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, winning silver.[4] Four years later she was captain of the Devils at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing, again winning silver.[1]
She made her senior international debut with the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team (the Gliders) that year at the Osaka Cup in Japan in February 2013.[5] She subsequently played for the Gliders at the Osaka Cup in February 2015,[6] the 2015 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Chiba, Japan, in October 2015, the Osaka Cup in February 2016,[7][8] and the 2017 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Beijing in October 2017.[9]
She studied education at Griffith University in Queensland, and is a qualified primary school teacher.[10] The University awarded her a full blue for wheelchair basketball in 2015.[11]
Notes
- ^ a b c "Ella Salbjak". Basketball Australia. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Player statistics for Ella Sabljak (1.0)". SportsTG. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Spinning Bullets ready to fire in 2016 NWBL". Sporting Wheelies. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Australia". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ Degun, Tom (11 February 2013). "Australian women's wheelchair basketball team set for Osaka Cup defence". Inside the Games. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Osaka Cup 2015 - Box Score" (PDF). Osaka Cup. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Australian Gliders named for 2016 Osaka Cup". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Gliders squad named ahead of 2016 Osaka Cup". SBS. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "2017 Asia-Oceania Championships – Australia – Women". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ "Ella Sabljak". Griffith University. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ Marshall, Deborah (29 October 2015). "Awards celebrate student athletes' success". Griffith News. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
External links
- Ella Sabljak on X