Georgia Munro-Cook is an Australian 4.5 point

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player. She represented Australia at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in

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, the

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, and the

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Biography

Munro-Cook was born on 17 May 1994, the daughter of Meg Munro and

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; her father is one of the original members of the children's band ''

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''. As a child, she appeared in seven of ''The Wiggles'' videos, including ''

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'', '' Hoop Dee Doo: It's a Wiggly Party'' and ''

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''. She attended

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, earning high marks in English, Mathematics, Science, Australian History and Australian Geography. She attended the

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, where she wrote her PhD thesis on the history of the

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. , she works as a postgraduate researcher. Munro-Cook enjoyed playing basketball, but her career was terminated by a hip injury. However, she soon found a substitute in

. "It gave me an outlet and a passion to pursue," she recalled. She is a tall

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who is classified a 4.5 point player. In 2014, she joined the Sachs Goudcamp Bears, one of the teams in the

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. The team was renamed the Sydney Metro Blues in 2016, and won the league championship in 2017. That season, Munro-Cook had five

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s. She led the Sydney Metro Blues for scoring, and was second for

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s. She was also named to the All-Star Five. She also played for the New South Wales junior side that won the Kevin Coombs Cup in 2016. In 2015, Munro-Cook was selected as a member of the under 25 national side (the Devils) for the

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. Later that year she played with the senior team, the Gliders, at the 2015 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Chiba, Japan, in October 2015. She subsequently joined the Gliders for the Osaka Cup in Japan in 2016, and the 2017 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships back in Beijing in October 2017. She represented Australia at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in

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, where the team came ninth, and at the

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, where the Gliders also finished ninth after winning the 9th-10th classification match. In June 2023, she was a member of the Gliders team at the

References

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Basketball Australia Profile
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