TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Jared Arambula, a freshman at The University of Alabama from Valparaiso, Ind., has been named to the 2009 USA 23-and-under National Wheelchair Basketball Team.
Arambula’s selection was the culmination of a three-day tryout camp at Birmingham’s Lakeshore Foundation and included 25 of the best players in the United States.
The team will compete at the Paralympic World Cup May 19-23 in Manchester, England. The team will also travel to Paris this summer to compete in the 2009 Junior World Championships July 7-9.
The freshman kinesiology major was also selected first-team All American earlier in the month at the collegiate championships in Whitewater, Wis.
For more information about this student or the championship game, visit the UA Wheelchair Athletics Web site www.uads.ua.edu.
Contact
Chloe LeBaron or Linda Hill, UA Media Relations, 205/348-8325 or lhill@ur.ua.edu
Source
Dr. Brent Hardin, director of UA Wheelchair Athletics and associate professor of adapted sport, 205/348-5109, 205/246-3372 or bhardin@ua.edu