Nationality Australia Sport Wheelchair basketball Event(s) Women's team | Country Australia Disability class 4.0 Club Minecraft Comets | |
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Born 7 March 2001 (age 16) ( 2001-03-07 ) | ||
Georgia Bishop-Cash (born 7 March 2001) is a swimmer and 4.0 point Australian wheelchair basketball player. She made her international debut with the Australian U25 team (the Devils) at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing, winning silver. She was part of the Minecraft Comets team that won the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL) championship title in 2014, and were named the Queensland Sporting Wheelies Team of the Year for 2014.
Biography
Georgia Bishop-Cash was born with arthrogryposis and bilateral club feet, requiring her to walk with the aid of calipers. She had painful surgery almost every year until she was eight. Regular exercise was recommended, so she began cycling on an exercise bike and swimming. She enjoyed swimming and started doing it competitively. In 2012 she won the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle and 50m backstroke events in her age group at the Queensland Schools Championship, where she was the youngest competitor.
In June 2009 Bishop-Cash took up wheelchair basketball, and soon became a member if the state junior team, the Rolling Thunder. In 2014 she won her first national gold medal with the Rolling Thunder at the 2014 Kevin Coombs Cup. She joined the Queensland senior women's side, the Minecraft Comets, and was mentored by coach Tom Kyle and senior player Bridie Kean. The Minecraft Comets won the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League championship in 2014, and were named the Queensland Sporting Wheelies Team of the Year. In June 2015 her Paralympic dream came another step closer when she was selected as the youngest member of the U25 Women's side, known as the Devils, for the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing.
Bishop-Cash attended Mary Immaculate School in Annerley, Queensland.