Phil Evans (basketball)

Philip "Phil" Evans is a 2.5 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He has been selected to represent Australia at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

Biography
Evans hometown is Perth, Western Australia. In September 2013, after having celebrating a premiership football win with friends, crashed his car on the way home. The car accident him fracturing his T-11 and T-12 vertebrae, paralysing him from the waist down. He attended University of Arizona where he majored in business.

Basketball
Evans played many sports growing up including Australia rules football, indoor and outdoor cricket, mixed netball, rugby union, tennis and golf. After his accident, he coached a senior Whitford's AFL side, where he played A Grade Football in 2009-2010 and 2012–2013.

He was introduced to wheelchair basketball through attending ‘come and try’ day at the Herb Graham Recreation Centre organised by Rebound WA. He was selected to play for the Perth Wheelcats in Australia's National Wheelchair Basketball League and this led him to be offered a University of Arizona scholarship to join their wheelchair basketball program.

He was a member of the Rollers team at the 2024 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Thailand, where they won the gold medal and qualified for 2024 Summer Paralympics.