Amanda Yan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Amanda Yan
Occupation	Basketball Player
Date Of Birth	May 22, 1988(1988-05-22)
Age	36
Birthplace	Burnaby
Country	Canada
Birth City	British Columbia
Horoscope	Taurus

Amanda Yan Biography

Amanda Yan is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on May 22, 1988 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Amanda Yan was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, on the 22nd of May 1988. She was a student at Burnaby Central Secondary School when she was a teenager, she played an avid participant who played volleyball, basketball as well as track and field. Then she enrolled of Simon Fraser University.

In addition to in wheelchair basketball Yan participates in many other activities like handcycling, swimming, wheelchair race, tennis for wheelchairs as well as track and field with events like javelin, shot put and discus. Yan was awarded in 2012 the Avchen (Harivel) Pinkard Rookie of the Year award in the track and field. She was the national shot put champion in 2012 and was second in wheelchair tennis (singles and doubles) at the national championships that year.

In March 2014, Yan was named the BC Wheelchair Basketball Society’s Female Athlete of the Year. She also received a True Sport award, which is given annually to an elite athlete with a commitment to fair play and inclusion by Wheelchair Basketball Canada. The following month the BC Breakers again won the CWBL Women’s National Championship before a home-town crowd in Richmond, British Columbia, with Yan again being named an All Star.

In the course of rehabilitation, Yan was first introduced to the sport of basketball for wheelchairs. She was classified as being a 3.0 scorer, Yan started participating in local competitions in the year 2011. She was named BC-CWBL Division 2’s most improved player for 2011-12. In the following season, she was being a part of the BC Breakers, who went on to claim the 2012 championship. In 2013, the BC Breakers came fourth in 2013 but Yan was selected as a member of the National Championship’s All-Star Five. Yan also started playing with BC Royals. BC Royals in the men’s league.

Amanda Yan Net Worth

Amanda Yan is one of the richest Basketball Player from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Amanda Yan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Amanda Yan (born May 22 1988) is a Canadian 3.0 point wheelchair tennis and basketball player who was awarded an gold medal during the 2013 Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. She was also the national champion in shot placed in 2012.

On April 19, 2008, Yan was skiing at Whistler, British Columbia, when the snowboard’s edge got caught on cat tracks, causing Yan to fall off of the Crystal Road run — classified as a beginner’s courseand tumble 30 meters (98 feet) off the high cliff. Her injuries were horrific, breaking two vertebrae and fracture three vertebrae. She also suffered fractures to her right femur and right wrist. She also suffered kidney, lung, and brain damage to her kidneys, lung and brain. She was airlifted to a hospital and was told that there was a slim likelihood that she’d never walk again. A long period of rehabilitation within the GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver were followed by months of rehabilitation at the GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver.

Yan became part of the national team in 2013, representing Canada at the Osaka Cup that year. In July 2014, she was part of the team that won a gold medal at the 2014 Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.

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Facts & Trivia

Amanda Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Amanda Yan celebrates birthday on May 22 of every year.