Shelley Chaplin
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Chaplin
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| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Born | 4 September 1984 |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball |
| Disability class | 3.5 |
| Event(s) | Women's team |
| Club | Victoria |
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Shelley Chaplin (born 4 September 1984) is an Australian 3.5-point player wheelchair basketball player. She participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, where she won a silver medal; in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where she won a bronze medal, and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a second silver medal, a win she dedicated to her lifelong friend Shannon.
Chaplin began playing wheelchair basketball in 1999, after initially contemplating developing her archery skills, and made her debut in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL) in 2000. She was part of the WNWBL championship Dandenong Rangers sides in 2011 and 2012. She was first selected for the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in 2001, and first represented Australia in 2002, winning a bronze medal as part of the team at the 2002 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship. She played for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wheelchair basketball team, and was named an All-American in the 2006/07 season. Her team won the national championships in 2009.
Nicknamed Chappers, Chaplin was born in Bendigo, Victoria, on 4 September 1984, with incomplete paraplegia. She grew up in Bendigo, and went to Girton Grammar School. In 2010, she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science degree in Recreation, Sport and Tourism.
After completing her studies at the University of Illinois Chaplin took up a position at Australian Broadcasting Corporation. At the ABC Chaplin was a Production Assistant on Adam Hills Tonight in 2013 and Spicks and Specks in 2014.
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