A DISABLED basketball player has been named an ambassador for a campaign inspiring women to be more physically active.

Emily Scrivener, 36, from Sible Hedingham, has played wheelchair basketball ever since an accident left her disabled.

She has joined This Girl Can, a Sport England campaign aiming to get more women and girls aged 14-40 regularly exercising or playing sport.

In 2010, Ms Scrivener set up the Eastern Blue Stars, East Anglia’s only competitive women’s wheelchair basketball team.

She swims and uses gym equipment once a week at Halstead Leisure cen- tre, helped by “kind, encouraging and helpful” staff.

She added: “Over the last three years I have also been hand cycling and now my dad has attached a battery pack to get me up the hills, so I am really looking forward to a summer of cycling around Essex.

“I believe anything is possible, as you have to allow yourself to dream and then start to make a plan to make it happen.

“It doesn’t have to be big or important, it has to be yours and worth working towards.”

Ms Scrivener plays in the British Wheelchair Basketball women’s league, division three and was a reserve for the London 2012 Paralympics team.

She said: “I have always been super sporty and even after my accident that didn’t change. I believe every woman across the globe should have the freedom to enjoy whichever physical activity they like to do."