Originally from Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Thomas led the Lady Rebels basketball team in her senior year (1985-86) in every way: highest average score per game, most rebounds per game, most assists per game, and leading scorer in 23 out of the 31 games the team played, including the NCAA National Tournament. She was a star in the classroom, too, earning Co-SIDA Academic All-America honors (first team) for three consecutive years. She still holds several Lady Rebel records, including All-Time Leading Scorer (1,892 points in 114 games), and is the first female UNLV athlete to have her jersey retired (No. 4).

Thomas is well recognized in her native Canada, where her father was a basketball coach for the University of Windsor. She was a member of the 1984 Canadian Olympic basketball team that placed fourth in the Los Angeles Summer Games. In her high school years, she was All-City four times and a Provincial All-Star, the equivalent to All-America honors in the United States. In 1998, Thomas was inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame. Just last year, she was a member of the Canadian team that won the gold medal in the Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Amsterdam.

Female teams from the University of Alabama (U of A); Phoenix, Ariz.; and Vancouver, Canada, will participate in the tournament. The game schedule will be:

                              Saturday                                                                      Sunday

8:30 a.m.           U of A vs. Phoenix                                                       Vancouver vs. U of A
10:00 a.m.         U of A vs. Vancouver                                                  Vancouver vs. Phoenix
11:30 a.m.         Phoenix vs. Vancouver
1:00 p.m.           Phoenix vs. U of A

California men's teams from Cypress, San Diego, Los Angeles, Rancho Cucamonga (RC) and Shasta Lake will compete against the Las Vegas Silver Bandits team and each other, according to the following schedule:

                             Saturday                                                               Sunday

8:30 a.m.           RC vs. Las Vegas                                               Los Angeles vs. Shasta Lake
10:00 a.m.         San Diego vs. Shasta Lake                              Las Vegas vs. San Diego
11:30 a.m.         RC vs. Cypress                                                   Las Vegas vs. Los Angeles
1:00 p.m.          Shasta Lake vs. Las Vegas
2:30 p.m.          Shasta Lake vs. Cypress
4:00 p.m.          San Diego vs. RC
5:30 p.m.          Los Angeles vs. Cypress

Doolittle Community Center is located at 1950 North J Street. For directions to Doolittle Community Center, call (702) 229-6374. The event is sponsored by the city of Las Vegas Department of Leisure Services Adaptive Recreation & Sports Division in conjunction with Lakeside, a chapter of Disabled Sports U.S.A. and Nevada Wheelchair Basketball. For more information on wheelchair basketball programs offered by the City of Las Vegas, call (702) 229-4796. For more information on Lakeside events, call Pat McCoy at (702) 328-4118.