James McQuillan

James McQuillan is an Australian wheelchair rugby player and has been selected for the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

Biography
He grew up on a farm outside the town of Nanneella. In 2014, aged 20, McQuillan fractured his C5 vertebrae playing Australian rules Football in Albury, New South Wales and left him a C5 complete quadriplegic. In 2018, he completed an accounting degree at Charles Sturt University. In 2023, he was employed in  ANZ Bank's Commercial Division.

In 2022, he married his childhood sweetheart Kathryn.

Wheelchair rugby
Prior to his football accident, he loved playing football in winter and cricket in summer. He began playing wheelchair rugby in 2021, debuting for the Steelers 11 months later in Denmark. He won the 2022 Wheelchair Rugby World Championship with the Australian Steelers. He has a 0.5 classification in wheelchair rugby, and in 2024 plays for Hunter Wildfires in the National Wheelchair Rugby League.