Renee Del Colle

Renée Del Colle (born 1967/8) is a Canadian wheelchair basketball player who played for the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team in international competition. She won two Paralympic gold medals representing the women's national wheelchair basketball squad at both the 1996 Summer Paralympics and the 2000 Summer Paralympics as well as two victories in the final of the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in each of 1994 and 1998.

Biography Del Colle was born in either 1967 and 1968, and comes from Calgary, Alberta. Until the age of 12, she played regularly organized basketball in high school in Edmonton but stopped being involved in the sport following injury and illness and failed to be drafted in the Canada national junior women's basketball squad. This was before Del Colle was diagnosed with the incurable autoimmune disease known as lupus in which the antibodies in her blood attack separate organs. She was listed at ; Del Colle did not regularly use a wheelchair while walking but she did in competition. She helped Canada to claim the gold medal in the final match that was held on August 25, 1996. In August 1997, she and her husband Darcy moved to Edmonton from Calgary. In the final, Del Colle scored 23 points in helping Canada beat the United States 54–38 for the gold medal and their second successive women's world title win. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, she played for the Canada national wheelchair basketball team in the women's wheelchair basketball tournament as one of five disabled athletes from Calgary, and she first competed in the round-robin group opposite Germany, Japan and Mexico. She contributed Canada's second-highest points total of 10 during the final.

Recognition In 2001, Del Colle received City of Calgary Recognition to honor her achievements in wheelchair basketball.