Steve Serio

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Steve Serio
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TeamBriantea 84
Turned pro2010
Medal record
Men's wheelchair basketball
Representing  United States
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Dubai Team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Hamburg Team
Silver medal – second place
2014 Incheon
 Team
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Birmingham Team
Silver medal – second place 2006 Amsterdam Team
Parapan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago Team

Steven Serio (born September 8, 1987) is a wheelchair basketball player. As a co-captain of the USA Men's National Wheelchair Basketball Team, he led the American men to their first Paralympic gold medal since 1988 at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games[1] and defended the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.[2] He currently plays for the New York Rolling Knicks in the NWBA Championship Division.[3]

He grew up in Westbury, New York and graduated from Carle Place High School in 2005. When Steve was 11 months old, he had surgery to remove a spinal tumor which resulted in the compression of his spinal cord. Consequently, he was left paralyzed and is classified as an incomplete paraplegic.[4]

Steve began his wheelchair basketball career as a sophomore in high school with the Long Island Lightning, the only competitive junior wheelchair basketball team in New York State.[5] He was a tremendous asset to this team, eventually leading them to the team's first National Championship in 2005 where was named the tournament MVP.[6] In that same year, he played on a USA U-23 Team played at the Australian Junior National Games for the Disabled in Sydney.[6]

He played point guard for the

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.[8] Steve took home the Championship Game Player of the Game, NWBA Tournament MVP, and the NWBA 31st NIWBT Player of the Year in the process.[9]

Steve also plays on the U.S.

Paralympics Men's Wheelchair Basketball Team, which came in second place at the World Championships in Amsterdam in the summer of 2006.[10] In the summer of 2007, the U.S. National Team won a gold medal at the Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Steve made his Paralympic debut with the U.S. National Team in 2008 in Beijing, China.[11] The team finished in fourth place, just missing a medal. Since the disappointing Paralympics, the U.S. National Team took the gold medal at the 2009 America's Cup in Richmond, Canada[12] and finished third at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Birmingham, England.[13]

He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2010, where he studied Kinesiology.

He is currently living in Germany and playing for RSV Lahn-Dill. His contract was recently extended through the 2016 season.[14]

Major achievements

Juniors

  • 2005: First place - Junior National Wheelchair Basketball Championships
  • 2005: Tournament MVP - Junior National Wheelchair Basketball Championships
  • 2005: Gold medal - World Junior Basketball Championships

Intercollegiate

  • 2008: National Champion - U.S. Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball
  • 2008: MVP - NWBA College Division

US National Team

  • 2006: Silver medal - IWBF Gold Cup (World Championships), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • 2007: Gold medal - Parapan American Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2008: Fourth place - Paralympic Games, Beijing, China
  • 2008: First place - North American Cup, Birmingham, Alabama
  • 2009: First place - America's Cup, Richmond, BC, Canada
  • 2010: Third place -
    Birmingham, England
    , UK
  • 2012: Bronze Medal - Paralympic Games, London, UK
  • 2016: Gold Medal - Paralympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2021: Gold Medal - 2020 Summer Paralympics, Tokyo, Japan

Professional

  • 2011: German DRS Cup Champion
  • 2011: German Championship
  • 2011: IWBF Champions League Silver Medal
  • 2012: German DRS Cup Champion
  • 2012: German Championship
  • 2021: IWBF Champions Cup Champion[15]

Notes

  1. ^ "Westbury's Serio helps USA to gold medal". newsday.com. September 18, 2016. Archived from the original on December 29, 2017. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
  2. ^ "USA retain men's wheelchair basketball Paralympic title after dramatic win over Japan". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Archived from the original on September 9, 2021. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  3. ^ "Who will rule the Rollstuhl this year?". FIBA.basketball.
  4. ^ "U.S. Paralympic Athlete Biography". usolympicteam.com. Archived from the original on April 5, 2008. Retrieved March 31, 2008.
  5. ^ "United States Olympic Committee Article 3/20/06". usoc.org. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 6, 2007.
  6. ^ a b "USOC Athlete Spotlight: Steve Serio". usoc.org. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved July 6, 2007.
  7. ^ "Past NIWBA All-American Teams". students.uww.edu. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.
  8. ^ "Fighting Illini Men's Wheelchair Basketball Page". disability.uiuc.edu. Archived from the original on February 21, 2007.
  9. ^ "Daily Illini Newspaper Article 3/24/08". dailyillini.com.[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ "2006 U.S. Paralympics Men's Wheelchair Basketball Team Defeated by Canada in IWBF Gold Cup Final". usoc.org. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved July 6, 2007.
  11. ^ "Newsfeed". usocpressbox.org.[dead link]
  12. ^ "USA Wins Gold". nwba.org. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2009.
  13. ^ "Day Ten - Finals - British Wheelchair Basketball". gbwba.org.uk. Archived from the original on July 19, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
  14. ^ die.interaktiven. "Details - RSV Lahn-Dill". rsvlahndill.de.
  15. ^ "Ascended to the European throne for the seventh time". rsvlahndill.de.

External links

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