RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - SEPTEMBER 15: Danielle Ellis of Canada spikes the ball in sitting volleyball women's 7-8 classification match 13 on day 8 of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games at the Rio centro - pavilion 6 on September 15, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Each of the five teams representing Canada at the Paralympics head to Paris at different points in their evolution, with different meanings ascribed to potential podium performances.Danielle Ellis of Canada spikes the ball in sitting volleyball women's game during 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Heidi Peters joined the Canadian women's sitting volleyball squad in 2013, one year after the team missed out on qualification for London and essentially disbanded.
For the women's sitting volleyball team, a gold medal would be the pinnacle of a long climb to the top. Anderson has competed on the team since Sydney 2000 and has collected three Paralympic titles, one world championship, two world silver medals and a Paralympic bronze to boot.Their most recent Paralympic medal came in 2012. Since then, they missed the knockout round in 2016, then fell in the 2021 quarterfinals.
The women's wheelchair basketball team, meanwhile, is looking for a breakthrough after consecutive quarterfinal eliminations. It's headed to Paris with a new head coach in Michèle Sung. Its mission, beyond returning to the Paralympic podium for the first time since 2012, stretches back to the inventor of the game, Canadian Duncan Campbell.
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