Don't miss out on the first bobblehead featuring wheelchair basketball player John Boie, who won his second gold medal as a member of Team USA at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, France. Team USA defended its wheelchair basketball championship in the 2024 Paris Games on Saturday, September 7th, defeating Great Britain 73-69 in the gold-medal match before a crowd of more than 12,000 at Bercy Arena.
A Wisconsin native who was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, and raised in Milton, the 33-year-old Boie suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury after being involved in a tractor accident on the family farm when he was 2 years old. Confined to a wheelchair ever since, Boie began playing wheelchair basketball after attending a summer camp at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater when he was 11 years old. Boie went on to play for the UW-Whitewater Warhawks, one of the premier college wheelchair basketball programs in the country. Boie earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree from UW-Whitewater and has been a member of the school’s Academic Advising & Exploration Center staff since 2017. The bobblehead is being produced in conjunction with John Boie.
- Expected to ship in February 2025
- Bobblehead is high quality and produced by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum
- Approximately 6 inches tall
- One dollar from each bobblehead sold will also be donated to UW-Whitewater Wheelchair Athletics
- Individually numbered to 2,024
***PRE-SALE INFORMATION***
This is a pre-sale product. If your order contains both in stock and pre-sale items, your order will be held until all items are available to ship. If you want in stock items to ship right away, you can place two separate orders or pay an additional $8 shipping charge by calling 800-414-1482. Olympics