Peter_Berry_(basketball)
Peter Berry (basketball)
American wheelchair basketball player
Peter Berry (born October 30, 2001) is an American wheelchair basketball player and social media personality. At age nine, a car accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, a paraplegic, and confined to a wheelchair.
Berry started competing in wheelchair basketball for TIRR Memorial Hermann soon after his accident. In 2019, he accepted an athletic scholarship to play for the University of Alabama's wheelchair basketball team,[lower-alpha 1] where he began in 2020. Berry is also known for his social media presence, with over seven thousand followers and 770 thousand likes on TikTok. In 2022, it was revealed that he is training for the 2024 Summer Paralympics.