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Interview Topics: 
  • Childhood and car accident at age seventeen
  • Introduction to wheelchair sports
  • First international tournament experience
  • Transition to life after the accident
  • Travel and fundraising for tournaments
  • Experiences with Paralympics and Team USA
  • Attending college at Wright State University
  • Retirement from table tennis
  • Becoming a mother and juggling a sports career</
  • Getting back into table tennis at Texas Wesleyan University
  • Changes in wheelchair sports
  • Promoting wheelchair sports
  • Starting the Dallas Wheelchair Lady Mavericks
  • Breaking in a female in a mostly men’s sports
  • Choosing between basketball and table tennis
  • Family support and the impact of wheelchair sports
  • Rio and the future
  • Advice for incoming athletes
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Interviewee: 
Fontaine, Pamela (biography)
Topic: 
Physical Disability, Sports and Entertainment, Educational Institutions
Keywords: 
Wheelchair table tennis, T-4 paraplegic, Wheelchair basketball, Adapted sports, Rehabilitation, Traffic accidents, Fundraising, Children, Boccia, Pickleball, Transfer board, Interview, Interviews, Oral histories, Oral history, Transcript, Transcripts, Olympic Games, Wheelchair basketball, Accident, Boccia, Quad Rugby, Functional Electronic Stimulation
Persons: 
Fontaine, Pamela, Hayes, Jim, Profitt, Tara, Sherrill, Claudine (Dr.), Toepfer, Katherine, Garner, Doug, Profitt, Tara, Sherrill, Claudine (Dr.), McWillams, Gina
Places: 
Fort Worth (Tex.), Seoul (Korea), New Jersey (U.S.A.), Beijing (China), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Columbus (Ohio), Germany, Austria, Waco (Tex.)
Organizations: 
University of Texas at Arlington, Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio), Texas Woman's University, Dallas Lady Mavs, Paralympic Games, Dallas Rehabilitation Institute, Movin' Mavs (University of Texas at Arlington), Texas Wesleyan University, Dallas Rehabilitation Center, Texas Instruments, Pan American Games, National Wheelchair Basketball Association, Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio), Lady Texans Basketball Inc. (Larado, (Tex.), Dallas Wheelchair Lady Mavericks, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Interview Date: 
2016-04-25
Interview Location: 
Fort Worth (Tex.)
Length: 
01:12:00
Transcription Date: 
2016-07-26
Transcription Note: 
Draft transcription included. Completed transcription will be added by August 30, 2016.
Collection: 
Texas Disability History Project Oral Histories
Identifier: 
20007336
Publisher: 
UT Arlington Libraries
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