Amanda Carter (born 16 July 1964) is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player.

Due to her 2000 injury, Carter lost considerable mobility in her right arm, and required an elbow reconstruction.

She spent 11 weeks on a continuous passive motion machine, and nine operations were required to treat the elbow.

She then entered La Trobe University, where she obtained Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Occupational Therapy degrees.

[10] At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, her team finished fourth, losing to the United States 41–30 in the bronze medal game at the Omni in front of a crowd of 5,033.

Going into the gold medal game, Carter had missed the previous day's training session, and had an elbow injury.

[18] Her team lost the match to Canada before a crowd of 16,389 spectators, with Carter scoring only four points in the first half.

[19] During the match, she was knocked onto her right side, and her right arm became trapped underneath her wheelchair, causing a tendon in her elbow to rupture.

Because she had a pre-existing condition, the insurance company refused to pay for her treatment, although it paid her $7,500 in return for agreeing not to take legal action.

[4][20][21] She was selected to play in a four-game test series in Canberra against Japan's wheelchair basketball team held in March 2002, the first Australian hosted international for the team since the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and at the 2002 World Cup event in Japan, but did not do so.

She quit the sport after being told that neither insurance nor the Australian Paralympic Committee would cover her against injury during a tour in the United States, as her tendonitis was considered an uninsured pre-condition there, and she would have to pay the costs for injury treatment herself.

[22][20] She took up wheelchair basketball again after watching the national team compete at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.

[3][4] That year, she competed in the Four Nations competition in Canada,[3][5] one of six players who played for the Dandenong Rangers in the WNWBL.

[29] She played in the first match against Brazil, in which the Australian team won 52–50,[30] but sat out the second and third matches,[31][32] returning to the field for her team's quarterfinal 62–37 victory over Mexico, in which she played 18:38 minutes and scored 5 points.

[28] In 2000, she played for the Whittlesea City Pacers in the National Wheelchair Basketball League.

[35] She played for Victoria in the inaugural Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL) completion in 2000 when they finished first in the final after they defeated the Hills Hornets 51–50.