Jennifer Poist
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| Born | March 14, 1989 McSherrystown, Pennsylvania, United States | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||||
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Jennifer "Jenn" Poist (born March 14, 1989) is an American former wheelchair basketball player who competed in international basketball competitions. She is a Paralympic champion and Parapan American Games champion, she competed at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics.[1][2][3]
Poist developed a tumour in her spinal cord aged seven which affected her mobility, she took up wheelchair basketball at this age and joined the NWBA junior basketball team aged fourteen. She graduated from University of Arizona in 2007 and works as a pharmacist in Tucson, Arizona.[4]
References
- ↑ "Jennifer Poist - Team USA". Team USA. 11 August 2025.
- ↑ "Jennifer Poist - IPC Profile". International Paralympic Committee. 11 August 2025.
- ↑ "NWBA Athlete of the Week - Jennifer Poist". NWBA. 2 February 2016.
- ↑ "Delone grad to play in Rio Paralympics". Evening Sun. 29 August 2016.
Categories:
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Basketball players from Pennsylvania
- Sportspeople from Adams County, Pennsylvania
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the United States
- American women's wheelchair basketball players
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games
- Parapan American Games medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Parapan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Wheelchair basketball biography stubs
- American Paralympic medalist stubs
- American basketball biography, 1980s birth stubs