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Shelley Matheson
2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Chaplin
Personal information
NationalityAustralia
Born(1984-09-04)4 September 1984(age 40)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportWheelchair basketball
Disability class3.5
EventWomen's team
ClubVictoria
Medal record
Wheelchair basketball
Paralympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Women's wheelchair basketball
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Women's wheelchair basketball
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Women's wheelchair basketball

Shelley Matheson (néeChaplin)(born 4 September 1984) is an Australian3.5-point playerwheelchair basketballplayer. She participated in the2004 Summer Paralympicsin Athens, where she won a silver medal; in the2008 Summer Paralympicsin Beijing, where she won a bronze medal, and the2012 Summer Paralympicsin 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 theWomen'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 theAustralia 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 theUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaignwheelchair basketball team,and was named anAll-Americanin the 2006/07 season. Her team won the national championships in 2009.

Personal life

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An interview with Shelley Chaplin in January 2013.
A Gliders guernsey that Chaplin wore at the 2008 Paralympics on display at the Australian Institute of Sport. It is signed by her teammates.

Nicknamed Chappers,[1]Chaplin was born inBendigo, Victoria,on 4 September 1984,[2]with incomplete paraplegia.[1][3]She grew up in Bendigo, and went toGirton Grammar School.[4]In 2010, she graduated from theUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaignwith aBachelor of Sciencedegree in Recreation, Sport and Tourism.[5][6]

After completing her studies at the University of Illinois Chaplin took up a position atAustralian Broadcasting Corporation.At the ABC Chaplin was a Production Assistant onAdam Hills Tonightin 2013 andSpicks and Specksin 2014.[7]

Chaplin is married Kieran Matheson and they have two children.[8][9]

Basketball

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A3.5-point player,Chaplin began playing wheelchair basketball in 1999.[3][10]Infinancial year2012/2013, theAustralian Sports Commissiongave her aA$20,000 grant as part of their Direct Athlete Support program. She received $20,000 in 2012/13, $17,000 in 2011/12 and 2010/11, $5,571.42 in 2009/10 and $5,200 in 2008/09.[11][12]

Club

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Chaplin made her debut in theWomen's National Wheelchair Basketball League(WNWBL) in 2000 when she played for the Whittlesea Pacers.[12]She played for the Dandenong Rangers in 2011 when her team won the WNWBL title,[13]and in 2012 was the captain of the Victoria Dandenong Rangers.[14]In a round four game against Sydney Uni Flames that the Rangers won 55–44, she scored 22 points.[15]Her team qualified for the league finals, where she scored 16 points in the game against the Stacks Goudkamp Bears for her team to walk away as champions by a score of 77–54. That season, she was named the league's Most Valuable 3 Point Player and a member of the 2012 All Star Five.[14]

University

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Chaplin played for theUniversity of Illinois Wheelchair Basketballteam in the country's first division.[3][16]In 2006/07, she was coached byMike Frogley,[17]and was the team's startingpoint guard.[18]Early in the 2006/07 season, her wheelchair broke and she had to play in one that was not hers. After three games played in the borrowed chair, she had bloody and bruised knees.[17]She was named anAll-Americanin the 2006/07 season.[6][19][20]

In two games that Chaplin's team won against RIC Express and theUniversity of Alabamain December 2006, she scored 35 total points, made 13 rebounds and 7 assists. She was named theMost Valuable Player(MVP) of the series. Her team finished that series with a record of 10–0.[21]In a January 2009 game against 7th ranked Alabama that her team won 52–47, she scored 22 points. The game was part of a tournament where her team also defeatedOklahoma State University53–49, and theUniversity of Missouri,48–27.[22]That season, her team won the national championships after defeating the Phoenix Mercury 53–36 in the championship game.[20]

In 2007/08, Chaplin's team won the national championship and she was named the tournament's MVP. In the team's 44–43 victory over the University of Alabama, she scored 12 points.[23]That year, she was ajuniorand played point guard for the team.[24]Her team played against a number of men's teams during that season. In January 2008, the team lost three games to men's teams, including a 61–41 loss toSouthwest Minnesota Statewhere she scored 14 points, a 54–35 loss toEdinborowhere she scored 10 points in a 74–20 loss toWisconsin-Whitewater.[24]In April 2010, Chaplin was named the First Team All-Tournament at the national championships. For the 2009/10 season, she was also named the University of Illinois Women's Wheelchair Basketball Player of the Year.[5]

National team

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Chaplin at a 2012 game in Sydney
Chaplin at a 2012 game in Sydney

Chaplin was first selected for theAustralia women's national wheelchair basketball team,known as the Gliders, in 2001,[12]and first represented Australia in 2002, winning a bronze medal as part of the team at the 2002 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship.[3][10]

Chaplin was part of the Gliders team at the 2010 IWBF World Championships where her team came fourth,[10]and the team that won the Osaka Cup in Japan in 2008, 2009 and 2010.[12][25]In February 2013, she was captain of the Gliders at the Osaka Cup, where the Gliders successfully defended the title they had won in 2012. Chaplin was named MVP of the tournament.[26][27]

After five years absence and the birth of two children, Matheson was selected to play for the Gliders in qualification tournaments for the2024 Paris Paralympics.[9]

Paralympics

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Chaplin at the 2012 London Paralympics
Chaplin at the 2012 London Paralympics

Chaplin was part of the Gliders at the2004 Athens,2008 Beijing,and2012 LondonParalympics, and won two silver medals, in 2004 and 2012, and a bronze medal in 2008 as part of the team.[12][28][29]

Chaplin competed with the Gliders at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.In the group stage, theAustralia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympicsposted wins against Brazil,[30]Great Britain,[31]and the Netherlands,[32]but lost to the Canada.[33]This was enough to advance the Gliders to the quarter-finals, where they beat Mexico.[34]The Gliders then defeated the United States by a point to set up a final clash with Germany.[35]In the gold medal game, the Gliders lost 44–58, and earned a silver medal.[36]She scored 8 points in the game, in which she played 26:58 minutes.[29]

Statistics

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Season statistics[12]
Competition Season Matches FGM–FGA FG% 3FGM–3FGA 3FG% FTM–FTA FT% TOT AST PTS
WNWBL 2013 16 113–243 46.5 0–3 0 18–46 39.1 7.1 6.3 15.3
WNWBL 2012 14 81–208 38.9 0–8 0 10–22 45.5 5.7 8.1 12.5
WNWBL 2011 18 120–233 51.5 0–1 0 24–71 33.8 5.3 7.6 14.7
WNWBL 2010 5 32–74 43.2 0–0 0 5–9 55.6 3.2 4.4 13.8
WNWBL 2009 6 54–126 42.9 0–2 0 16–38 42.1 8.3 3.7 20.7
Key
FGM,FGA,FG%:field goalsmade, attempted andpercentage
3FGM,3FGA,3FG%:three-point field goalsmade, attempted and percentage
FTM,FTA,FT%:free throwsmade, attempted and percentage
PTS:points,average per game
TOT:turnoversaverage per game
AST:assistsaverage per game

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