Career Bests
2017-18
Indoor Track & Field
No eligibility remaining.
Outdoor Track & Field
Summit League Champion in the 400-meter hurdles in a season best of 52.78 seconds … captured the event for the third-straight year … also placed eighth in the 110-meter hurdles at the league meet … recorded a wind-aided time of 14.33 seconds in the preliminaries of the 100 hurdles … clocked a wind-legal season best of 14.77 seconds for the 100 hurdles at the Baldy Castillo Invitational … won the 400 hurdles at the South Dakota Invitational in 54.21 seconds … captured the 100 hurdles at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays … finished runner-up in the 100 hurdles at the ORU Invitational with a 14.79 clocking … tallied 11 top-10 finishes during the season … earned Academic All-Summit League honors … made the Summit League honor roll ... named to the Summit League Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence.
2016-17
Indoor Track & Field
Summit League champion in the 60-meter hurdles … one of six Coyotes to capture a Summit crown … recorded a personal best of 8.14 seconds to take the title … moved to third on USD’s all-time charts in the 60-meter hurdles … also won the 60-meter hurdles at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet, Jim Emmerich Alumni Invitational and USD Last Chance Meet … ran a leg of the Coyotes’ 4x400-meter relay that notched the eighth-best time in USD program history of 3:16.25 … placed in the top-10 of all seven races during the season … named to Academic All-Summit League team.
Outdoor Track & Field
Summit League champion in the 100-meter hurdles and the 400-meter hurdles … captured two of USD’s 11 Summit titles … clocked personal bests of 14.31 seconds for the 110 hurdles and 52.46 for the 400 hurdles at the Summit meet … moved to fifth on USD’s all-time charts in the 110-meter hurdles and sixth in the 400-meter hurdles … swept the 110 hurdles and 400 hurdles at the USD vs. SDSU Dual … also won the 110 hurdles at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays and the USD Twilight … took 18th in the 110 hurdles at the Drake Relays … finished 20th in the 110 hurdles at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays with a wind-aided time of 14.41 seconds … placed in the top-10 of 10 races during the season with six event wins … named to Academic All-Summit League team … made the Summit League honor roll ... named to the Summit League Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence.
2015-16
Indoor Track & Field
Placed sixth in the 60 hurdles in 8.35 at the Summit League Championships … won the 60 hurdles at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet in 8.43 seconds … clocked a season-best 8.35 seconds for the 60 hurdles at the Air Force Team Challenge … finished in the top-10 for five races during the season.
Outdoor Track & Field
Captured his first Summit League title in the 400 hurdles with a diving finish with a career-best time of 52.48 seconds … performance moved him to sixth in program record books … also finished fourth in the 110 hurdles in a wind-aided 14.51 seconds at the Summit League Championships … clocked 14.79 seconds in the 110 hurdles to finish runner-up at the Sioux City Relays … took third in the 400 hurdles at the Husker Spring Invitational, Kip Janvrin Open and Howard Wood Dakota Relays … made the Summit League honor roll.
University of Mary
Norther Sun Intercollegiate Conference 400-meter hurdle champion ... earned all-academic team honors in 2015.
Prep
Set St. Thomas More High School records in the 110 and 300 hurdles ... finished runner-up at the South Dakota State Track and Field Championships in the 110- and 300-meter hurdles ... all-Black Hills Conference football player for the Cavaliers ... National Honor Society member.
Personal
Son of Dan and Carol Cooper ... general studies major.
