Melanie Hawtin (born July 20, 1988) is a Canadian 1.5 point wheelchair basketball player.
By age ten, she was participating in national championships,[2] and she won two bronze medals in 2001 in the T54 class.
Hawtin joined the Burlington Vipers, and played for Team Ontario in the CWBL Women's National Championships in 2013 and 2014.
She was selected for the national team at its training camp in Las Vegas in January 2014, something she had never achieved as a wheelchair racer.
[2][1] She was part of the team that won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto in July 2014,[5] and silver at the 2015 Parapan American Games in August 2015.