Following a four-day selection camp, the 19-strong group was confirmed, which will be narrowed down to 12 for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

The defending world and Paralympic champions will be hopeful of retaining their crown in London next year.

"One of our goals is that we stop seeing the chair as a way that we get around and start seeing it as a vehicle to play our sport and when you see the athletes slamming into one another you see the athlete," said coach James Grubert.

"These guys are elite athletes they just happen to use the chair to be able to play our sport."

Full Paralympic wheelchair rugby squad: Travis Anderson, Jason Regier, Jeromy Brown, Chad Cohn, Scott Hogsett, Adam Scaturro, Joe Delagrave, Derrick Helton, Nick Springer, Seth McBride, Andy Cohn, Eric Chase, Chuck Melton, Josh Wheeler, Chuck Aoki, Will Groulx, Chance Summer, Delvin McMillian, Mark Zupan

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