{"id":4091,"date":"2015-02-10T13:19:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2015-02-10T13:19:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:19:36","slug":"wheelchair-rugby-star-goes-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2015\/02\/10\/wheelchair-rugby-star-goes-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchair basketball star goes global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SOUTH\u2008WALES\u2008man will line up for Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball against European opposition tonight (Tuesday).<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4093\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_9392-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4093\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_9392-2-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Pratt (left) plays for Cardiff Celts\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4093\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_9392-2-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Pratt (left) plays for Cardiff Celts\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Pratt (left) plays for Cardiff Celts<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nPhil Pratt, who plays for Cardiff Celts Wheelchair Basketball, is part of a 17-man UK team who face Italian Champions Briantea84 as part of their preparations for the European Wheelchair Basketball Championships later this month. He attended Loughborough University and previously played Wheelchair tennis.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4094\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_9363-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4094\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_9363-1-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pratt shoots for glory\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4094\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_9363-1-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pratt shoots for glory\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Pratt shoots for glory<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nPratt, 21, was a London 2012 Paralympic flag bearer and made his senior debut for Great Britain last summer at the World Championships against South Korea.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4095\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_9409-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4095\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_9409-2-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Great Britain's Matthews has played at the Athens and Sydney Paralympics\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4095\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_9409-2-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Great Britain's Matthews has played at the Athens and Sydney Paralympics\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Great Britain&#8217;s Matthews has competed in Athens and Beijing against international opposition<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCardiff Celts\u2019 player-coach Caroline Matthews, who represented Great Britain wheelchair basketball at the Athens and Beijing Olympics in 2004 and 2008 respectively, said: \u201cHe [Pratt] has matured as a true international talent over the past few seasons and we are very lucky to have him in our team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SOUTH\u2008WALES\u2008man will line up for Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball against European opposition tonight (Tuesday). 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Pratt, 21, was a London 2012 Paralympic flag bearer and made his senior debut for Great Britain last summer at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,292],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wheelchair basketball star goes global - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2015\/02\/10\/wheelchair-rugby-star-goes-global\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wheelchair basketball star goes global - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A SOUTH\u2008WALES\u2008man will line up for Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball against European opposition tonight (Tuesday). 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