OU professor selected as team leader for 2023 IWBF Women’s Under 25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship Team – 2023 – School of Health Sciences – News – OU Magazine

Oakland University Professor Kathryn Rougeau has been selected as the team leader for the 2023 USA Women’s U25 World Championship team for wheelchair basketball.

Over the next few months, Dr. Rougeau will be traveling to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center (USOPC) in Colorado Springs, Colo. with the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA). She will also be involved in all team processes and activities from now through October when the team travels to Thailand for the world championships.

“I am honored to have been selected as team leader for the 2023 USA Women’s U25 World Championship Team,” said Rougeau, an assistant professor in the School of Health Sciences. “I’m most looking forward to representing the USA as we embark on a journey toward defending our gold medal performance in 2019.”

Rougeau is a 2007 Oakland University graduate, earning a…