Fisher, the Australian 100m and 200m T54 champion, was announced this week as one of six recipients of a Kurt Fearnley Scholarship which are awarded to the "future talent" of Australian para-sport.

It was a huge vote of confidence in Fisher, who was one of the inaugural scholarship winners last year, and with an additional 12-months to achieve a qualifying time she is back in the frame for a spot in the Australian Paralympics team.

"For me Tokyo was something I was hoping for, I'm probably still developing and wouldn't have quite qualified this year I think," Fisher said.

"The extra 12 months gives me a chance to get quicker and stronger and hopefully qualify next year."

But it's at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games that athletics officials are expecting Fisher to make her first big impact on the international arena.

"In terms of the scholarship it was essentially set up for Comm Games Australia that they wanted to help the up-coming para-athletes who haven't quite reached that top level to develop over the four years leading into Birmingham so that we can be selected for that team," the 18-year-old said.

"You don't really see yourself getting up one morning and becoming a Paralympian or Comm Games representative so to have people at that level see your potential and I guess put their faith in you and their support to push you to get there is pretty amazing."

Fisher, who is in her first year at university, is coached by Andrew Dawes who along with his wife and six-time paralympian Christie Dawes have provided support and guidance since she took up para-sports after a gymnastic accident two years ago left her paralysed from the waist down.

As part of the scholarship, Fisher receives mentoring from Fearnley and financial support to compete.

"We work with our coaches and Commonwealth Games to come up with a performance plan. What are our goals for the next 12 months and what are we missing in getting us there," she said.

"Last year for example, international competition was something that I really needed to start getting into to move up that level, but you need money to go overseas so I used a lot of my funding to go to Switzerland in May last year.

"For me also I had been using (wheelchair sprinters) Rheed McCracken and Maddi de Rozario's wheels and stuff that they had passed on to me so I was able to use some of the funding to buy a set of carbon wheels.

"This year I obviously would have used it again to go overseas as it really helped my development, but unfortunately we can't really go anywhere at the moment."

As for training?

It's all systems go on the rollers at home.

"We were recently still out on the track, but that closed with the new restrictions," Fisher said.

"Not allowed to be face-to-face with Andrew at the moment but he has set us up with programs on our rollers at home and he is on the phone."