Grant Boxall

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Grant Boxall (born 19 July 1976) is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He was born in Attadale, Western Australia, and in 2000 survived a surfing accident that left him quadriplegic. He began playing wheelchair rugby about two months after leaving hospital, a sport that helped his recovery. He is classified as a 2.5 player (previously 3.5) and played for Western Australia’s Black Ducks from 2000, joining the Australian national team in 2001.

Boxall has competed internationally in the United States, South Africa, Sweden and New Zealand, and represented Australia at the World Championships in 2002 and 2006, as well as the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, where he won a silver medal in the mixed wheelchair rugby event. He has held scholarships with the Queensland Academy of Sport (2004) and the Western Australian Institute of Sport (2008). He also played club rugby in New Zealand and the United States, and captained the West Coast Enforcers in Australia’s National Wheelchair Rugby League in 2008.

Beyond sport, Boxall works as a sport development officer. In 2008 he began a 22-month project to rebuild a 1968 Mercedes-Benz, paying A$650 for the car and refitting the controls so he could drive it with his hands.