After she ended her competitive Paralympic career, she became a commentator, and covered the swimming events at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

[8] Her home pool was the Swan Park Leisure Centre in Midvale, Western Australia.

She had a number of coaches over the course of her competitive career, including Matthew Brown and Frank Ponta.

The Federation made an emergency appeal for funding from the public in order to cover the cost of transporting the Australian team to Barcelona.

[3][2] She was offered a non-residential Australian Institute of Sport Athletes with a Disability swimming scholarship in 1993 and was supported until 2000.

She set world records at the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta in the 200 m medley and the 400 m freestyle swimming events.

[20] She also won a gold medal in the 200m individual medley, with a finish that was half a second away from beating her own previous world record.

[21] Cooper competed at the Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association-sponsored 1998 Queensland Championships in five swimming events.

[26] She was worried about how receptive Australians and the world would be in terms of disabled sport prior to the Paralympics being hosted in Australia.

[27] After the Games, Cooper believed that they had a long reaching societal impact in terms of creating a better image for disabled people around the country and helping to increase acceptance of them as part of Australian society.

To help overcome this fear, she competed in the 2002 open water 20 kilometres (12 mi) Rottnest Channel Swim in Western Australia.

[38] In November 2023, Cooper was up[graded to Legend status in Western Australian Hall of Champions.

[40] Cooper studied at Curtin University, where she graduated[3][36] with a degree in health promotion and media.

[8] She is actively involved in raising funds for several charities, and was part of the Great Pram Push event held in East Fremantle, Western Australia, a charity event that raised funds for the Starlight Children's Foundation and the Children's Leukaemia and Cancer Research Foundation.

[46] Cooper and her husband run a motivational business, Success is a Choice Global, which is designed to help people maximise their lives.