There She Is: A Womensport & Recreation Tasmania Podcast
Aug 18, 2026 · 32 min · 10 segments
Could you be eligible for para sport without even realising it? In this episode of There She Is, Katherine Reed from ParaQuad Tasmania challenges some of the biggest misconceptions around wheelchair…
Katherine ReedGuestPhilippaHostYeah, it sounds like you're building an amazing environment that's well needed and it's great to see so many opportunities.
There's a lot happening in sort of the para space at the moment.
What's sort of making you most excited about the changes in sport and opportunities for people with disabilities?
When I first started playing basketball in Tassie, I was the only female player who was interested.
I was pretty much the only female player in the state, apart from a couple of people who were still kind of hanging on, just playing for fun.
And I was certainly the only one who was interested in playing competitively.
There were two other boys a couple of years younger than me who were also interested in playing interstate.
So I would drive myself to Hobart every weekend for a two-hour training session with them.
So I managed to get on scholarship with the VIS when I moved to Melbourne, but I've never had a scholarship with the TIS.
Whereas athletes, there are athletes who are on scholarship with the TAS now who play wheelchair basketball.
And there are people who are involved in the new sort of intro to para sports sessions that they're doing where they will take them around the state and run different para sport days for them sort of thing.
So helping those athletes that – or these people who are coming into the TIS program knowing that they're interested in para sport but don't have a sport yet and aren't sure what fits them and suits them can come along and try wheelchair basketball.
The Victorians are currently running a really good wheelchair basketball program and have lots of stuff to share with us.
They have a – introductory program for girls and women who are interested in playing.
And so the Victorian team had around 20, 25 people try out for the National League team this year, I think, which is enormous.
So we have the potential there to be almost combining with Victoria to get a TAS team in the Women's League in the coming years.
I'd say it's a good two or three years off yet, but it's one of my sort of mid to long-term goals is to get that happening.
And Basketball Tasmania are actually talking to me now and to Paracord Tasmania.
Wheelchair basketball technically comes under the state body with Basketball Tasmania and comes under the national body of Basketball Australia because of the sport that we are.
Yeah, it sounds like you're building an amazing environment that's well needed and it's great to see so many opportunities.
There's a lot happening in sort of the para space at the moment.
What's sort of making you most excited about the changes in sport and opportunities for people with disabilities?
When I first started playing basketball in Tassie, I was the only female player who was interested.
I was pretty much the only female player in the state, apart from a couple of people who were still kind of hanging on, just playing for fun.
And I was certainly the only one who was interested in playing competitively.
There were two other boys a couple of years younger than me who were also interested in playing interstate.
So I would drive myself to Hobart every weekend for a two-hour training session with them.
So I managed to get on scholarship with the VIS when I moved to Melbourne, but I've never had a scholarship with the TIS.
Whereas athletes, there are athletes who are on scholarship with the TAS now who play wheelchair basketball.
And there are people who are involved in the new sort of intro to para sports sessions that they're doing where they will take them around the state and run different para sport days for them sort of thing.
So helping those athletes that – or these people who are coming into the TIS program knowing that they're interested in para sport but don't have a sport yet and aren't sure what fits them and suits them can come along and try wheelchair basketball.
The Victorians are currently running a really good wheelchair basketball program and have lots of stuff to share with us.
They have a – introductory program for girls and women who are interested in playing.
And so the Victorian team had around 20, 25 people try out for the National League team this year, I think, which is enormous.
So we have the potential there to be almost combining with Victoria to get a TAS team in the Women's League in the coming years.
I'd say it's a good two or three years off yet, but it's one of my sort of mid to long-term goals is to get that happening.
And Basketball Tasmania are actually talking to me now and to Paracord Tasmania.
Wheelchair basketball technically comes under the state body with Basketball Tasmania and comes under the national body of Basketball Australia because of the sport that we are.
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