Gary Birch

Gary Stephen Birch (born 8 October 1981 in Birmingham, England) is a retired footballer and Manager who played as a striker. He currently manages Highgate United.

Playing career

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Birch scored on his AFC Telford debut in the 4–3 victory against Mossley at Seel Park. Birch came on as a substitute before scoring the winning goal. Struggling with his weight, in September 2007, he was loaned to Rushall Olympic in an attempt to gain match fitness. Birch left the club at the end of the 2007–08 season to join Chasetown. Birch netted his first Chasetown hat-trick, a "perfect hat-trick", one with the right foot, one with the left foot and one with his head against Marlow on 15 November, and ended both the 2009–10 season and 2010–11 season as the club's top scorer in all competitions.

Birch netted his 50th Chasetown goal in all competitions in a 1–1 home draw with Chorley on August 27, 2011. He departed from the club in June 2012, and signed for Solihull Moors.

Gary Birch (electrical engineer)

Gary Birch, OC is a Canadian Paralympian, an expert in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology and Executive Director of the Neil Squire Society. In 1975, Dr. Birch was involved in an automobile accident which resulted in injuries to the C6 and C7 area of his spine making him a low-level quadriplegic. He was one of the original players of Murderball (wheelchair rugby), and won several medals in the 1980 Summer Paralympics in the Netherlands. In 2008, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. He continues to champion accessibility through his Research and Development work in assistive technologies at the University of British Columbia and with the Neil Squire Society.

Early and academic life

Born October 20, 1957, Gary Birch grew up in Calgary, Alberta. In high school, he was an A student and co-captain of his school football team. Dr. Birch was set to begin studying Engineering at the University of Calgary in 1975 when his life was changed forever by the motor vehicle accident that injured his spine making him a quadriplegic. It took 4 months of acute care and 4 months of rehabilitation at the G.F. Strong Centre in Vancouver for Dr. Birch to begin adjusting to his new life in a wheelchair. In the autumn of 1976, he enrolled in the Pre-Engineering program at the University of Victoria. He earned his B.A. Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1983, and in 1988 received a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering (Biomedical Signal Processing), from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.