About Caitlin De Wit
Born 1987. Caitlin De Wit is an Australian basketball player.
Caitlin De Wit (born 19 June 1987) is a 3.0 point Australian wheelchair basketball player. She was part of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the Osaka Cup in Japan in February 2013, and the Asia-Oceania Zone Qualifiers in Bangkok in November 2013. She played with the Hills Hornets team that won the Women's National Wheelchair basketball League (WNWBL) championship title in 2007, 2008 and 2009, and the Sydney University Flames team that won it in 2010.
Personal Caitlin De Wit was born on 19 June 1987, and grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales. She attended Central Coast Grammar School, and then Charles Sturt University, where she studied for a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Equine Studies. During her first year at Charles Sturt, she broke her L4-L6 lumbar vertebrae in a horse riding accident. She was airlifted to Royal North Shore Hospital, where she was diagnosed as an incomplete paraplegic. She returned to Charles Sturt to complete her degree, assisted by a 2006 ParaQuad scholarship, and graduated in 2007. In 2010, she began studying for a Bachelor of Veterinary Science degree at Sydney University, where she received a Sydney University Sports and Fitness Elite Athlete Program scholarship.
National De Wit made her international debut playing for the Under 25 team in the Under 25 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Canada in 2011, In October 2013, she was selected to play at the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Asia/Oceania Championships in Thailand in November 2013.
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Australian wheelchair basketball player
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Caitlin De Wit was born on 19 June 1987.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Caitlin De Wit. https://biography.guide/caitlin-de-wit/
MLA: "Caitlin De Wit." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/caitlin-de-wit/.
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