Darlene Hunter

Darlene Hunter (born 16 April 1982 in Walled Lake, Michigan

Wheelchair basketball Hunter played Wheelchair basketball at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London where the US team came fourth. She and her team won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

She became world champion at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship and she won the gold medal at the 2011 Parapan American Games. Hunter competed at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship, and won the gold medal at the 2015 Parapan American Games.

She founded an annual women's wheelchair basketball camp. In 2017 she was recognised as an "Everyday Hero" at the "espnW: Women + Sports Summit". She received a $10,000 grant which she used to extend her free outreach work of her basketball camp. The camp is based at the University of Texas at Arlington.

In 2019 she went to Peru to join the national team to compete at her second ParaPan American Games which that year was in Lima.