Sandrine Bérubé

Sandrine Bérubé
Team Canada – Sandrine Berube
Personal information
Nationality Canada
Born (1999-02-05) February 5, 1999 (age 25)
LaSalle, Quebec
Height5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Sport
SportWheelchair basketball
Disability class4.5
EventWomen's team
Medal record
Women's wheelchair basketball
Representing  Canada
Parapan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima Team

Sandrine Bérubé (born February 5, 1999) is a Canadian 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player who has represented Quebec at both the junior and senior levels. In 2018, she was part of the Canadian national women's team for the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg.

Biography

Sandrine Bérubé was born in LaSalle, Quebec, on February 5, 1999.[1] She played ice hockey, soccer, basketball, and baseball, and is a brown belt in karate.[1] In March 2014 she fell while playing ice hockey that left her with plates and screws in her left leg. Unable to play sports that involved running any more, she took up sledge hockey.[2] She also began playing wheelchair basketball, joining the Valleyfield Mini-Eagles.[2]

From there Bérubé progressed to the CIVA team, and has represented Quebec at both the junior and senior levels. Team Quebec came third at the CWBL Women's National Championship in Burlington, Ontario in 2017, and second in the CWBL Women's National Championship in Richmond, British Columbia, in 2018.[1] In 2018, she was part of the Canadian national women's team for the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg.[1] The Canadian team came fifth, as they had at the 2016 Paralympic Games two years before.[3]

Bérubé is a graduate of the École secondaire des Patriotes. She was awarded a $2,000 scholarship by the Quebec Foundation for Athletic Excellence in 2017,[4] and was one of 14 recipients of a scholarship in 2018, this time for $3,000.[5][6]

As of 2018, she is studying physiotherapy technology at Cégep Marie-Victorin.[1][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Canada, Wheelchair Basketball. "Sandrine Berube". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  2. ^ a b "La passion et détermination de Sandrine". Le Soleil de Chateauguay (in French). May 20, 2015. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
  3. ^ Clément-Robert, Audrey (August 25, 2018). "Les Canadiennes cinquièmes au monde" (in French). SportCom. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
  4. ^ "Une athlète de Beauharnois récompensée par Loto-Québec". Le Journal Saint-François (in French). May 8, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  5. ^ Brisson, Jessica (May 10, 2018). "Mis à jour: 16:24 Sandrine Bérubé de Beauharnois nouvellement boursière de Loto-Québec" (in French). Neomedia. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Les boursiers de la Fondation d'athlète excellence" (in French). RDS. April 26, 2018. Retrieved September 3, 2018.