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Born | 19 November 1983 | |||||||||||||||
Died | 18 December 2011 Sydney, Australia |
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Club | Wenty Wheelcats | |||||||||||||||
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Jeremy "JD" Doyle (19 November 1983 – 18 December 2011) was a wheelchair basketball player from Australia.
Doyle was born on 19 November 1983.[1] He was a paraplegic[2] as a result of an accident in which a driver hit him with a car when he was four years old.[3] He worked for ING in 2009.[2]
In 2010, he was diagnosed with bladder cancer.[4] In August 2011, while he was preparing for the 2012 London Olympics, the cancer returned and he was diagnosed as terminally ill.[4][5]
On 2 December 2011, Doyle married Melanie Carr, whom he had met online in April 2011 at Campbelltown Hospital.[4][5]He died on 18 December 2011 in Sydney from cancer, aged 28.[4]
Doyle was a point guard and guard.[4][6] He was classified as a 1 point player.[6] He had a wheelchair basketball scholarship from the New South Wales Institute of Sport.[7] His basketball team mates nicknamed him JD.[8] His jersey number was 14.[8]
He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team, made his team debut in 2009[4] at the 2009 Paralympic World Cup, and he competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship [6][9]. The team won a gold medal in both.[10]
He competed at the 2009 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championship, where his team finished first.[1] He was chosen to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[4] His last appearance for the national team was at the 2011 Tri-Nations Series in Canberra, Australia,[4], where he scored 8 points and had one assist in the 30 June 2011 match against the Netherlands.[1] At the time, he was coached by Ben Ettridge.[8]
Doyle first played in the National Wheelchair Basketball League in 2007.[1] He played for the Wenty Wheelkings,[6] making his debut as a starter for the team in 2008.[1] In 2009, he was playing for the Sydney Wheelkings.[11]
Doyle was a member of Australia's national wheelchair hockey team.[2] He played his club electric wheelchair hockey for the New South Wales team, the Hawks.[12] As of December 2011, he is the league's leading scorer for the 2011/2012 season.[13]
Doyle participated at the World Cyber Games in Counter-Strike, where he represented Australia in 2001.[2][14]
In 2009, Doyle was named a Don’t DIS my ABILITY Ambassador.[2] At the 2010 New South Wales Institute of Sport Awards, he was honoured for his "Outstanding Achievement".[15]