Jason Nelms
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Born | 1980 Huntsville, Alabama | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jason Nelms (born 1980) is an American Paralympic wheelchair basketball player from Huntsville, Alabama. He is a 2002 gold medalist at the IWBF World Championship and got a bronze medal in 2010 at the same place. A year later, he was awarded a gold medal at the 2011 Parapan American Games and on 2012 Summer Paralympics he was awarded with another bronze one. He was also a four-time NWBA Champion from 2008-2012 (excluding 2009).[1] He has been the head coach of the University of Texas at Arlington Lady Movin' Mavs women's wheelchair basketball team since its establishment in 2013.[2]
References
- ^ "Jason Nelms". Team USA. United States Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ^ Manske, Canyon (October 1, 2013). "Women's wheelchair basketball to debut Oct. 25". The Shorthorn. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
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Categories:
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players of the United States
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
- American men's wheelchair basketball players
- Sportspeople from Huntsville, Alabama
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- American basketball biography, 1980s birth stubs
- American Paralympic medalist stubs