(TORONTO, Ont.) Wheelchair Basketball Canada congratulates Team Canada athlete Colin Higgins on being named Sport New Brunswicks Male Athlete of the Year. Higgins was a member of WBCs mens team, which finished eighth at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics this summer.
Its obviously awesome to win the award, but as much as it is an award for me, its an award for the support that Ive received from New Brunswick and the people of New Brunswick, whether thatd be my family or people from Parasport New Brunswick or the people that I started playing Wheelchair Basketball with at the club level, said Higgins. Theyve all been a part of my journey over the years, and this is just kind of a little bit of an acknowledgement for everything weve done over the last while.
The 30-year-old native of Rothesay, N.B., appeared in seven games for Team Canada at the Tokyo Games averaging 6.9 points per game in nearly 13 minutes of action.
The year wasnt an easy year for anybody, but we made the best of it, and Tokyo was very special; we wouldve liked to do a little better, Higgins said. But the support that I felt from back home from people that I know, or that I dont even know, was unlike anything Id ever felt at any other Games. That was a really cool takeaway from Tokyo, and it just really helped re-confirm why I do this. It made me double-down on why I want to continue to keep doing this.
On the court, Higgins pointed to the mens quarterfinals game against Great Britain as the highlight of his first Paralympic experience.
We were leading for most of the game, and most people had us pegged as the underdog, and just the team really felt like it was coming together, and the vibe in the dressing room was, hey we can actually do this. So that was a pretty cool moment there, he said.
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