{{notability|1=Biographies|date=April 2025}} {{Short description|Filipino basketball coach}} {{Infobox basketball biography | image = | name = Melo Lim | alias = | number = | position = Assistant coach | league = PBA | team = NLEX Road Warriors | nationality = Filipino | birth_date = | birth_place = | height_ft = | height_in = | high school = | college = [[San Beda Red Lions basketball|San Beda]] | coach_start = 2018 | coach_end = | draft_year_pba = | draft_round_pba = | cteam1 = [[Perpetual Altas basketball|Perpetual]] (assistant) | cyears1 = 2018–2019 | cteam2 = [[NLEX Road Warriors]] (assistant) | cyears2 = 2023–present | highlights = * 5× [[National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines)|NCAA]] [[List of NCAA Philippines basketball champions|seniors' champion]] ([[NCAA Season 83 basketball tournaments|2007]], [[NCAA Season 84 basketball tournaments|2008]], [[NCAA Season 86 basketball tournaments|2010]], [[NCAA Season 87|2011]], [[NCAA Season 88 basketball tournaments|2012]])
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'''Carmelo "Melo" Lim''' is a Filipino coach and former collegiate player who is currently serving as an assistant coach for [[NLEX Road Warriors]] since 2023. He is the son of former collegiate champion coach [[Frankie Lim]].
== Basketball career ==
=== Playing === Lim played for [[San Beda Red Lions basketball|San Beda Red Lions]] under the tutelage of his father.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Terrado |first=Reuben |title=Ildefonsos are latest father-and-son team in college basketball. See who came before them |url=https://www.spin.ph/basketball/father-and-son-college-basketball-philippines-coach-player-uaap-ncaa |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Spin.ph |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Terrado |first=Reuben |title=Lions hoping homegrown juniors stars will stay put |url=https://www.spin.ph/basketball/uaap-women/lions-hoping-homegrown-juniors-stars-will-stay-put |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Spin.ph |language=en}}</ref> Melo played his final year without his father,<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=August 17, 2012 |title=Lions sumalo sa liderato |url=https://www.philstar.com/palaro/2012/08/17/839078/lions-sumalo-sa-liderato |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=Philstar.com}}</ref> as the latter was suspended by NCAA committee for 2 years due to an altercation with [[San Sebastian Lady Stags volleyball|San Sebastian volleyball]] coach [[Roger Gorayeb]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Henson |first=Joaquin M. |date=April 8, 2012 |title=Lim suffers dad's pain in leaving Red Lions |url=https://www.philstar.com/sports/2012/04/08/794542/lim-suffers-dads-pain-leaving-red-lions |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=Philstar.com}}</ref> The same year, they won their third straight championship.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=December 25, 2012 |title=Cinderella finish kay Magsanoc: Bedans inihatid sa kampeonato |url=https://www.philstar.com/pilipino-star-ngayon/palaro/2012/12/25/889685/cinderella-finish-kay-magsanoc-bedans-inihatid-sa-kampeonato |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=Philstar.com}}</ref>
Melo graduated in San Beda in 2013 together with [[Jake Pascual]] and [[Anjo Caram]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=January 3, 2013 |title=Fernandez bagong coach ng San Beda |url=https://www.philstar.com/pang-masa/pm-sports/2013/01/03/892784/fernandez-bagong-coach-ng-san-beda |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=Philstar.com}}</ref>
=== Coaching === He served as an assistant to his father at [[Perpetual Altas basketball|Perpetual Altas]], and later on [[NLEX Road Warriors]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramos |first=Gerry |title=JB Sison, Frankie Lim's son Melo join NLEX coaching staff |url=https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/san-beda-alum-also-added-as-part-of-nlex-coaching-staff-a793-20230119 |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Spin.ph |language=en}}</ref> Even his father was dismissed, he was retained by the NLEX management.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramos |first=Gerry |title=Jong Uichico retains Frankie Lim's coaching staff at NLEX |url=https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/lim-sison-stay-as-part-of-uichico-coaching-staff-at-nlex-a793-20240618 |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Spin.ph |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == He is the second youngest son of Frankie Lim and wife Olen.<ref name=":0" />
== References == {{reflist}}
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