WHEELCHAIR basketball ace Jontee Brown and lawn bowls champion Aaron Wilson are joint winners for September in Bendigo\u2019s Sports Star of the Year award for 2023.<\/p>\n
A member of the Australian Paralympic squad, Brown went to Italy with the Australian Rollers where the squad was third overall and he was named in the all-star team of five.<\/p>\n
A big year for Brown included a championship victory with the Darwin Salties in the national championship and he was the season\u2019s top scorer.<\/p>\n
In the grand final, Brown scored 33 points and won nine rebounds.<\/p>\n
Brown also played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Wheelchair Football League this season.<\/p>\n
The Hawks defeated Richmond in the clash for the Robert Rose Foundation VWFL premiership cup by 65 points.<\/p>\n
Among the career highs for Brown in wheelchair basketball have been a bronze medal at the world under-23 championships, and gold at national under-23 titles.<\/p>\n
Brown is presently living in Canberra and training at the Australian Institute of Sport as he pursues his goal of competing at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, dual winner of Bendigo\u2019s Sports Star of the Year crown, Wilson continues to shine at the big events.<\/p>\n
In September he competed at the World Bowls Championships on the Gold Coast where he teamed with Aaron Teys in the men\u2019s pairs.<\/p>\n
They claimed silver after an 11-19 result against Ireland\u2019s Adam McKeown and Gary Kelly in the final.<\/p>\n
Later in the titles, Wilson earned bronze in the singles and Australia again struck gold as the best performed country.<\/p>\n
Wilson won gold in the men\u2019s singles at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, and last year\u2019s Games in Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WHEELCHAIR basketball ace Jontee Brown and lawn bowls champion Aaron Wilson are joint winners for September in Bendigo\u2019s Sports Star of the Year award for 2023. A member of the Australian Paralympic squad, Brown went to Italy with the Australian Rollers where the squad was third overall and he was named in the all-star team […]<\/p>\n