Belinda Snell (born 10 January 1981) is an Australian women's basketball player from Mirboo North in country Victoria, Australia. She is a member of the Australia women's national basketball team, and has won two (2) silver medals in basketball at the 2004 & 2008 Summer Olympics, a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, a gold medal at the 2006 World Championships, and a bronze medal at the 2014 World Championships.

Snell was born on 10 January 1981 and is from Victoria. She is 180 centimetres (71 in) tall. In 2006, she weighed 80 kilograms (180 lb).

Other sports Snell has played include tennis and netball. In April 2012, she was at the Reservoir West Primary School for the launch of Prime Minister's Olympic and Paralympic Challenges. As part of the event, she tried out in sports including goal ball and sitting basketball.

Snell is a guard and forward. She started playing basketball when she was eight years old in the country Victoria location of Mirboo North for a mixed gendered team. For under-14 basketball, she played for a team in Knox, Victoria, travelling two hours to Melbourne each Friday night to play. She was later selected for the Country Victoria team.

Snell was born the year the WNBL was founded.

In 1998/1999, she had a scholarship with and played for the Australian Institute of Sport. When she joined the AIS WNBL team, she was one of the newest members of the squad, with most of the team having been hold overs from the previous year. Her AIS team won the championship in 1998/1999. Her team mates included Lauren Jackson, Penny Taylor and Suzy Batkovic. In the 2000/2001 season, she was named WNBL's All-Star Five. In the 2004/2005 season, she was named WNBL's All-Star Five. She played for the Sydney Uni Flames this season. In a January 2005 game against the Perth Lynx that her team won 109–54, Snell scored 54 points and broke a WNBL single game scoring record set by Julie Nykiel in 1982 where Nykiel scored 53 points. In the game, she shot 12 of 21 from three-point range. This broke the WNBL's record of eight three-pointers in a game set by Michele Timms in 1988 and Narelle Fletcher in 2003. She had 29 points at the half. After reaching the 50-point mark, her team mates started intentionally feeding her the ball to help her break the record. She shot 6 of 9 from the free throw line in the game. She also had 9 rebounds, 9 steals and 7 assists. She played in 37 minutes of the 40-minute game. That season, she was coached by Karen Dalton.

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