Donald Santoso

 

Donald Santoso

      Donald Santoso is an Indonesian paralympic athlete who plays wheelchaired basketball. He's one of the best wheelchaired basketball players out there. 

       He was born in USA, got back to Indonesia when he was around 7 y.o., and then went back to USA again at 11 to pursue his dreams in basketball. At that time, he wasn't using wheelchair nor he needed it. But sadly, he got into an accident when he was 17 and injured his legs. The operation failed, he wasn't able to play basketball again as normal. 



        When he was told that he could never play basketball like normal again, he was devastated. His hopes and dreams died. But then, he got into Arizona State University and found out that he could still play basketball in a wheelchaired basketball team, his dreams rose up again. Since then, he hopes to be the best wheelchaired basketball player. 

        In Indonesia, he became the founder of Jakarta Swiftball Wheelchair. That team is expected to represent Indonesia in the next paralympic games, in 2023. 

        A little about his life, he got married to Putri Nuvaisyah in 2018 and just had a kid a few weeks ago! But he is a pretty private person. So no one really knows about him much. Nevertheless, he is an amazing person to look up to. 
       
        


Team members:
-Fahmi Hayat (09)
-Faustina Nurhandini (12)
-Rahiman Labib (28)

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