Mindy Cook (born September 23, 1988) is an American

goalball Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a visual impairment, vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball with bells embedded inside it into the opponents' goal. The ball is throw ...

player who represented the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the Inte ...

Career

Cook represented the United States at the

and won a silver medal.

Personal life

Cook was born with

aniridia Aniridia is a condition characterized by the absence or near absence of the iris, the colored, muscular ring in the eye that controls the size of the pupil and regulates the amount of light entering the eye. This absence results in a primarily b ...

, a genetic condition where the iris of the eye does not develop.

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* * * 1988 births Living people American female goalball players Paralympic goalball players for the United States Paralympic silver medalists for the United States Paralympic medalists in goalball Goalball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Parapan American Games silver medalists for the United States Parapan American Games medalists in goalball Goalball players at the 2023 Parapan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Parapan American Games People from Celina, Ohio Sportspeople from Mercer County, Ohio {{US-Paralympic-medalist-stub