Pat’s Bio

How Pat started playing	“In 1989, I was injured in an automobile accident involving a drunk driver. A year later, I participated in a junior wheelchair sports camp where I was introduced to basketball, swimming, and track. I fell in love with basketball right away. I hadn’t played basketball a lot growing up in small town Canada, but I’d yet to meet a sport I didn’t like. At the time, I played for no other reason than the love of the game.”
Best moment on a basketball court	“In 1995, I played with the Twin City Spinners in the Canadian junior finals. In the gold medal game, with several seconds to play and the score tied, I was on the receiving end of a bad inbounds pass. Since I was more used to throwing bad passes than catching them, it was all I could do to get a handle on the ball, steal a quick glance at the basket, and put up a prayer as I fell to the floor.”As the final buzzer sounded, the ball dropped through for the dramatic victory. “The papers hailed me as clutch, which is Canadian for lucky. All the same, I was a hero and I felt very good about it.” “I remember that feeling to this day.”
Why Pat uses the Quickie AllCourt	Over the past few years, the adjustable AllCourt has given me the flexibility to experiment with my chair setup and challenge conventional wisdom regarding the height/speed tradeoff.   Sitting low with 20 degree camber and 25″ wheels has rejuvenated me as a basketball player and made the game fresh with new challenges and perspectives.
Looking towardsBeijing	“I want Team Canada to be remembered as the best team of all time. That’ll be no easy task given the high level competition among the world’s top teams. However, we haven’t established ourselves as favorites by setting low standards. We will be successful if we continue to mine the wealth of experience and talent that we have, from the coaching staff down to the 12th man.”
A little more about Pat	“G.K. Chesterton said that it’s too bad that competition demands that we always give our best, because our second best is often much better. In the spirit of that wisdom, I gladly confess that I’m not really a basketball player. I’m an aspiring book worm, a third rate singer-songwriter, and a late blooming sledge hockey goon.A history major during his days at the University of Illinois, Pat says that Chesterton and C. S. Lewis are his two favorite authors because they weren’t chronological snobs when it came to their subject matter.  That is, sometimes the old ideas are the best ideas. He plays guitar and piano and likes the work of performers such as Derek Webb and David Bazan among others.  Recently, thanks to occasional fits of diligent study, he has grown less bewildered by jazz, and even tries to play it sometimes. Pat grew up with three brothers and three sisters, and has faced a ballooning number of nieces and nephews in recent years.