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Cobi Crispin Personal information Nationality Australia
Born 22 December 1988 Medal recordWheelchair basketball Paralympic Games Bronze 2008 Beijing Women's wheelchair basketball Cobi Crispin (born 22 December 1988) is a wheelchair basketball player from Western Australia.
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Personal
Cobi Crispin was born in Mackay, Queensland on 22 December 1988.[1][2] She was born missing a limb.[3] She has lived in Melbourne, Victoria as a result of switching wheelchair basketball club sides,[4] and now lives in Midland, Western Australia.[3] Other sports she has an interest in include hockey, swimming and touch football.[2] Her role models are Liesl Tesch and Al Mosely.[3][2]
Basketball
Crispin's wheelchair basketball classification is 4.0,[3][1][2] and she plays forward.[1] She has played the sport since 2003, when she was 17 years old.[3][2] In 2009, she was a 'Aspire to be a Champion' grant recipient.[5]
National team
Crispin's first national team appearance was in 2006.[1][2]
Paralympics
Crispin was part of the bronze medal winning Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team [6] at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.[7] As of August 2011[update], she is working to earn a place on the 2012 Summer Paralympics squad.[4]
Other competitions
In 2006, Crispin was named the Northern Challenge Most Valuable Player.[3] In 2006, she was on the squad that competed at the Joseph F. Lyttle World Basketball Challenge.[1] In 2007, she was part of the national team that the competed in the Asia Oceania Qualification tournament,[1] and the silver medal winning team that competed at the Osaka Cup.[1] She was part of the national team's 2008 squad that competed in the Osaka Cup.[3] She was part of the 2009 squad that competed at the Osaka Cup. That year, the team finished first.[1] In 2010, she was part of the fourth place finishing Australian national squad that competed at the IWBF World Championships, in Birmingham England.[1]
In 2011, she was part of the 2011 U25 Women’s Wheelchair Basketball team that competed at the U25 Women’s World Championship of Basketball,[8] and finished second.[4] She was the team's top scorer in all but last two matches in the tournament, when the opposition worked on shutting down her ability to take shots.[4] She was also the team's co-captain.[9] In October 2011, she was named as part of the senior national squad that would compete at the Paralympic qualifying tournament for the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[10]
Club basketball
In 2008, Crispin was named one of Australia's Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL) All-Star Five.[1]She played her club basketball for WNWBL's Western Stars.[1] Starting in 2009, she played for the WNWBL's Dandenong Rangers.[4] She was with the team during their 2011 seasons.[9] In 2010, she was playing with the Western Stars, wearing number 5.[11]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Cobi Crispin". Basketball Australia. http://www.basketball.net.au/index.php?id=604. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f "Cobi Crispin". Australian Paralympic Committee. http://www.paralympic.org.au/team/cobi-crispin. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Cobi Crispin". Wheelchair Sports Western Australia. http://www.wheelchairsportswa.org.au/ath_cobicrispin.htm. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Koopman, Pat (2 August 2011). "London calling for star player". Sunshine Coast Daily. http://www.maggie.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2011/08/02/london-calling-for-star-player-cobi-crispin/. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ "'Aspire to be a Champion' past Grant recipients". http://www.aspire.au.com/past_grant_recipients.htm. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ McGarry, Andrew (4 September 2008). "Event guide: Wheelchair basketball". ABC. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/04/2355383.htm?site=/paralympics/2008. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ "Basketball Chronology". Basketball Australia. 2010. http://www.basketball.net.au/index.php?id=471. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ "U25 AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL TEAM NAMED AHEAD OF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP". Sporting Wheelies. 28 June 2011. p. 2. http://www.sportingwheelies.org.au/doc.php?ID=1649. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ a b Koopman, Pat (2 August 2011). "London calling for star player". Sunshine Coast Daily. http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2011/08/02/london-calling-for-star-player-cobi-crispin/. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ Gold, David (28 October 2011). "Australia name wheelchair basketball squads for London 2012 qualifying event". http://www.insideworldparasport.biz/news/9784-australia-name-wheelchair-basketball-squads-for-london-2012-qualifying-event. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ "Western Stars". Wheelchair Sports Western Australia. http://www.wheelchairsportswa.org.au/stars.htm. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
Categories:- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players of Australia
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