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  Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper

Player Profile
Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Sparta, N.J.

High School:
Sparta

Height / Weight:
6-0 / 180

Event:
Fly/Back

UVa Career Bests: 100 Back: 51.46; 100 Fly: 49.22; 200 Fly: 1:48.32

Should make a major impact in the butterfly events ... will also make contributions in the sprint backstroke ... a strong leader with a great training ethic.

2003-2004- Finished fifth in the 200 fly at the ACC Championships, swimming a career best time ... tied for 10th in the 100 fly at ACCs, posting another career best time ... competed in the 200 fly and 400 medley relay at the 2003 Summer Nationals.

2002-03- A finalist in the 200 fly at the ACC Championships (seventh) ... also a consolation finalist in the 100 fly (10th) ... swam career best times in the 100 fly, 100 back, and 200 fly at the ACCs ... an ACC Academic Honor Roll selection.

2001-2002- An ACC Championship consolation finalist in the 200 fly (13th) and 100 fly (15th) ... also swam the 100 back at ACCs ... named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll ... a varsity letterwinner.

Prep & Personal-A YMCA finalist for Lakeland Hills YMCA ... National YMCA runner-up in the 200 butterfly ... a three-time Scholastic All-American ... four-time Sussex County selection ... two-time league MVP ... holds league records in the 100 fly and 200 I.M. ... two-time New Jersey state champion in the 100 fly ... son of Mary and Clint Cooper ... uncles, Ed Sheridan and Kevin Rodger, played football at Princeton and William & Mary, respectively ... born July 4, 1982 in Dover, N.J. ... majoring in sociology.

 

 

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