Head Women's Basketball Coach, 3rd Season

In two seasons, Cooper has accumulated a record of 37-19 and a winning percentage of .660, which is the highest of any coach in the 32 year history of the women's basketball program.

The Pirates began the 2011-12 campaign with one of the program's best starts posting a 10-1 record at the holiday break. Park advanced to the semifinals of the AMC Tournament for the second straight season, but lost to No. 1 Columbia 83-67.

Vivian Holcomb earned First-Team All-Conference honors for the second straight season and Brianna Beridon made the Honorable Mention All-Conference team for the second consecutive year. Both were members of Cooper's first recruiting class at Park.

In his first season as head coach, 2010-11, Cooper led the Pirates to the third most wins in a season in program history posting an 18-11 overall record and 9-7 AMC mark finishing the AMC regular season in fourth place.

Park increased its win total by 13 during Cooper's first season after going 5-25 in 2009-10, marking the second greatest turnaround in NAIA Division I Women's basketball, one win shy from California Baptist's 14 wins.

Cooper had two players earn postseason honors as Vivian Holcomb was the only freshman named to the 2010-11 AMC First-Team All-Conference squad and Brianna Beridon was named AMC Honorable Mention All-Conference.

Cooper spent three years as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at NCAA Division I Mercer University in Macon, Ga., from 2007-2010, and was instrumental in assisting head coach Janell Jones reinvigorate the Bears' program.

He was part of a staff that inherited a 5-25 team and endured a 4-26 record its first season at Mercer. However, the 2008-09 season, in which the Bears went 17-14, proved to be the greatest turnaround in the country that year, according to CollegeRPI.com, by making a 153 point swing (315 to 162) in the RPI. The team was picked to finish eighth in the Atlantic Sun Conference by both media and coaches pre-season polls, but proved the experts wrong with a fourth place showing before advancing to the A-Sun semifinals.

The 2009-10 Bears, despite an injury-plagued season, managed a second-straight trip to the A-Sun tournament and posted a record of 14-16, on a team with just two seniors on the entire roster. The 31 wins amassed by MU in the past two seasons are the most in any back-to-back seasons by Bears' teams since 1995-97.

Along with his duties as assistant coach at Mercer, Cooper excelled as the recruiting coordinator for the Bears. In three seasons, student-athletes recruited by Cooper earned a First-Team All A-Sun award, three Second-Team all-conference honors, an A-Sun Defensive Player of the Year, eight A-Sun Player of the Week awards, and 18 academic all-conference selections.

As a part of Mercer's 2010-11 recruiting class, Cooper brought in three players that were ranked in the top 50 by ESPN in the southeast region.

Prior to joining the Bears, Cooper spent three seasons as an assistant with Seminole State College, helping the team reach the Bi-State Conference Tournament each year during his tenure. Seminole State also finished third at the 2007 NJCAA Region II Tournament. The Belles' compiled a 51-40 (.560) record during his three-year stint as assistant coach.

Also serving as recruiting coordinator for Seminole, Cooper brought in and coached six all-conference nominees, three First-Team all-region performers, a regional Player of the Year and a Second-Team All-NJCAA member.

Cooper played collegiately at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Ala. After redshirting his freshman year, he helped the Falcons win a Gulf South Conference Tournament title during his senior season when he served as team captain. Montevallo also reached the NCAA Division II South Regional finals as the Falcons finished with a 23-10 record in 2004. Cooper received the University of Montevallo Sportsmanship Award in 2004.

A native of Fayetteville, Ga., Cooper starred at Fayette County High School before his collegiate playing career at Montevallo. At Fayette County, he served as team captain his junior and senior seasons while earning four varsity letters.

Cooper graduated from Montevallo in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology. Cooper and his wife Erin, reside in Kansas City, Mo.