Cobi Crispin

Cobi Crispin
Cobi Crispin
Personal information
Nationality  Australia
Born 22 December 1988
Medal record
Wheelchair 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, 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

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Cobi Crispin". Australian Paralympic Committee. http://www.paralympic.org.au/team/cobi-crispin. Retrieved 6 November 2011. 
  3. ^ 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. 
  4. ^ 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. 
  5. ^ "'Aspire to be a Champion' past Grant recipients". http://www.aspire.au.com/past_grant_recipients.htm. Retrieved 8 November 2011. 
  6. ^ 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. 
  7. ^ "Basketball Chronology". Basketball Australia. 2010. http://www.basketball.net.au/index.php?id=471. Retrieved 9 September 2011. 
  8. ^ "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. 
  9. ^ 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. 
  10. ^ 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. 
  11. ^ "Western Stars". Wheelchair Sports Western Australia. http://www.wheelchairsportswa.org.au/stars.htm. Retrieved 8 November 2011. 

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