Rosie Long (born October 9, 2006) is a Canadian 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player and a member of Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team.
Career Long broke into high-level competition as organized sport reopened following the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2022 she represented Ontario at the Canadian Junior National Championships for wheelchair basketball. Encouraged to return to wheelchair track racing for cross-training, Long qualified for Team Ontario at the July 2022 Canada Summer Games in Niagara, Ontario, winning gold in the women's wheelchair 100m, and silver in women's wheelchair 1500m. In February 2023 she again represented Ontario at the winter edition of the 2023 Canada Winter Games, playing wheelchair basketball for the provincial team. During the buildup to that competition, she was featured as a "Future Watch" subject for Wheelchair Basketball Canada's web and social media campaigns. She was selected for Canada's junior national team for the 2023 Under-23 World Championships in Thailand but was unable to participate due to injury.
She first represented Canada in wheelchair basketball in junior competition at the Osaka Cup in February 2025, and was a member of Canada's Gold-medal winning quartet in 3x3 wheelchair basketball at the 2025 Youth Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile. She made her senior team debut for Canada in October of that year in the America's Cup in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2026, as well as winning a gold medal with Ontario's junior team and bronze with the province's women's team at their respective National Championships, she represented Canada in 3x3 wheelchair basketball at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, where Canada lost to Australia in the bronze medal game; and in full-court basketball at the 2026 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Ottawa in September, where Canada narrowly lost to USA in the gold medal final.
Personal life Born in Oakville, Ontario on October 9, 2006, Rosie Long enjoyed showjumping and gymnastics in her childhood. In November 2016 she was struck and dragged by a school bus , and suffered an ischemic spinal cord injury. During rehabilitation at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto Rosie was introduced to adaptive sports. In the following three years she participated in para ice hockey, wheelchair track, wheelchair tennis, and wheelchair basketball, amongst others, before settling on basketball as her favoured sport.
She is an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ
References
External links Rosie Long at Wheelchair Basketball Canada