Michele Sung is excited about the opportunity to learn from the veteran women’s national team.
Canada’s senior women’s wheelchair basketball national team will open their Paris 2024 Paralympic competition on August 29 in a game against China. Alongside them will be Bisons women’s basketball head coach Michele Sung.
Sung was hired as the national team’s head coach in early 2024 at the urging of several players who knew her from her time as an assistant coach ten years earlier.
“I think that always helps with the decision of going into a new team when you have the support of the athletes,” says Sung. “Because you know somebody wants you there, which is a good starting point.”
Sung says one of the team’s challenges is the actual tournament length, with basketball being one of the sports running the entire two-week duration. For her, the job right now is managing the team’s mentality, ensuring they are prepared for the whole run.
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