Pam has been rostered on an athletic team since she has been in third grade. She hasn’t missed a year participating in sports ever since then. Injured in June 1981, she was introduced to wheelchair sports later that year and has not looked back. 

Pam grew up in New Jersey. She started her career in wheelchair sports as a teenager, playing table tennis in 1982. As a senior in high school, she joined a men’s team, the New 

Jersey Blue Devils. In 1983, Pam entered college, specifically at Wright State in Ohio. At Wright State, she was instrumental in recruiting players to assist with the development and competitiveness of the women’s wheelchair basketball team. The Lady Raiders participated in the National Tournament for the first time in 1985. Pam was the first player to remain eligible for intercollegiate competition for all four years. 

She then was recruited and moved to Texas in 1989 to start her graduate studies and complete her M.S. in Adapted Physical Education. She graduated in 1994. She has been the heart of the Lady Texans team since it’s inception. 

Pamela has been elected to the National all-tournament teams at least 13 times. Pam competed at two National tournaments while she was pregnant! She ranks among the most intelligent players in wheelchair basketball and probably was the first Class-1 woman to shoot and score one-handed set shots from the foul line and beyond. 

Pam has been selected to the USA Team 5 times: 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1996 Her international awards include the 1988 Gold Medal Paralympic team (the first US women’s team to bring home the gold medal) and the 1990 world championship team. She was an important menber of US’s silver-medal team at the world championships in 1994 and the bronze-medal team at the 1996 Paralympics. 

While Pam has been elected to the NWBA Hall of Fame as a competitor, she has made significant contributions as an organizer, coach and teacher, especially of children.