Cobi Crispin

Cobi Crispin (born 22 December 1988) is a 4 point wheelchair basketball forward from Western Australia. She began playing wheelchair basketball in 2003 when she was 17 years old. The Victorian Institute of Sport and Direct Athlete Support (DAS) program have provided assistance to enable her to play. She played club basketball in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL) for the Victorian Dandenong Rangers in 2012 after having previously played for the Western Stars. In 2015 she began playing for the Minecraft Comets. She played for the University of Alabama in the United States in 2013–15.

Cobi Crispin
2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Crispin
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1988-12-22) 22 December 1988
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportWheelchair basketball
Disability class4.0
EventWomen's team
College teamUniversity of Alabama
TeamMinecraft Comets
Coached byDavid Gould
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals2008 Summer Paralympics
2012 Summer Paralympics
Medal record
Wheelchair basketball
Paralympic Games
2008 Beijing Women's wheelchair basketball
2012 LondonWomen's Wheelchair basketball
U25 Women's World Championships
2011 St CatharinesWomen's wheelchair basketball

Crispin made her Australian women's national wheelchair basketball team debut in 2006, competing in the Joseph F. Lyttle World Basketball Challenge that year, and participated in Paralympic qualification in 2007. She remained on the team and was part of the bronze medal-winning Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. At the 2010 IWBF World Championships in Birmingham England, her team finished fourth. The following year, she was captain of the 2011 Under 25 (U25) Women's Wheelchair Basketball team at the 2011 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, and earned a silver medal. Also in 2012, she participated in Paralympic qualifying, and went on to compete at the 2012 Summer Paralympics where her team finished second.

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