Tom Kyle (born 15 June 1959) is an Australian wheelchair basketball coach who coaches the Queensland Spinning Bullets and the Australian women's national wheelchair basketball team. He was assistant coach of the Australian men's national wheelchair basketball team from 2009 to 2013, during which time it won gold at the IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, and silver at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Biography Tom Kyle was born on 15 June 1959 in Cooma, New South Wales, where his father worked for the Snowy Mountains scheme. As a boy he played cricket, and was captain of the Australian Capital Territory side at the age of 12. He also played rugby league, rugby union, Australian football, soccer and tennis. He began playing basketball when he was 12 or 13, and played with the Cooma Under 18 team when he was 14, and the senior men's team when he was 16. At that age he also began coaching, his first team being an Under 14 basketball side. Kyle decided to become a basketball coach, and he repeated Year 12 in order to get sufficient marks for a scholarship to study Physical Education at the Wollongong Institute of Education, which merged with the University of Wollongong in 1982. He completed a double major in Health and Physical Education, receiving degrees from both the Wollongong Institute of Education and the University of Wollongong, from which he graduated in 1983. While there he played basketball for the university, and coached some university sides, learning practical coaching skills from Adrian Hurley. After graduation, Kyle married, and moved to Brisbane, where he began teaching and coaching basketball and tennis at Anglican Church Grammar School. He became involved with the Brisbane Bullets, the local National Basketball League team, who trained at the school, and coached junior basketball. In 1985, he moved to Sydney, where he looked after the sports centre at the Harbord Diggers Memorial Club, and coached the Manly-Warringah Basketball senior men's and teams. He was director of the Warringah Aquatic Centre for a time before returning to Brisbane in 1989, to take up a job as a marketing officer at the Brisbane City Council Department of Recreation. While there he coached basketball at Marist College Ashgrove, which his two sons attended. He started his own IT company, selling software he had written that managed leisure centres. In 2000 he joined Jupiters Hotel and Casino as