Stephanie Wheeler
Basketball
Inducted: 2017
- Native of Norlina, NC
- Championed accessibility in sports since becoming a paraplegic at age six
- Primarily associated with the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, member of the school’s championship wheelchair basketball team, a multiple gold medalist, and an athlete mentor for paralympics
- Head coach of the team at Illinois
- Develops curriculum on adapted physical education and leads wheelchair basketball camps around the world
