Indiana Cooper (athletics) crushed her personal best to reach the final of the women’s 100m T38 at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games where the 16-year-old Tumut High School student was the youngest member of the Australian athletics team.

Born prematurely at just 24 weeks, Indi is an Indigenous woman (Wiradjuri) and has dystonic cerebral palsy in all four limbs and severe short sightedness. She was inspired to take up athletics when she watched Isis Holt win two silver and one bronze at the Rio 2016 Paralympics. Beginning her para-athletics journey after being classified T38, her first taste of success came when she won the F38 long jump bronze at the 2016 School Sport Australia Track and Field Championships.

One of four recipients of the 2021/22 Kurt Fearnley Scholarship, Indi donned the green and gold again for the Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad & Tobago in 2023 where she won silver in the 100m T38. She has since switched sports to para cycling with an eye towards the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games and Los Angeles 2028 Paralympics.