1. Abbey Cooper is an American middle- and long-distance runner.
21 Facts About Abbey Cooper
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Abbey Cooper is the first Dartmouth female distance runner to win an NCAA title.
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Abbey Cooper won a total of seven NCAA titles in her career.
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Abbey Cooper married Jacob Cooper in July 2018, who played football in college at Taylor University and now works as the clinical sport psychologist at Appalachian State University.
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In 2013 Abbey Cooper became the first Ivy League athlete, male or female, to win an NCAA Cross Country National Championship.
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Abbey Cooper is the first Ivy League athlete to win 7 individual NCAA Championships.
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Abbey Cooper is the only woman ever to have won both the 3000 meters and 5000 meters NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships twice in a career which she did in 2013 as a junior and again in 2014 as a senior.
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Abbey Cooper broke Ryan Pandolfini's long-standing 10K record by over a minute in 2014, and is the current Dartmouth record holder in the 3K, 5K, and 10K.
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Abbey Cooper won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female collegiate cross country runner in 2014.
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Abbey Cooper graduated with a degree in psychology in 2014.
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Abbey Cooper was coached by her college coach Mark Coogan under whom she was a 7-time NCAA champion from 2014 to 2018.
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Abbey Cooper is ranked 19th in the world in the 5000 meters and 65th in the 10,000 meters in 2014.
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Abbey Cooper debuted as a New Balance athlete in October 2014 in the 24th Mayor's Cup presented by the Boston Athletic Association placing fourth behind winner Rachel Hannah of Canada and the Boston Athletic Association's Juliet Bottorff and Jen Rhines.
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Abbey Cooper ran the 5000m in 15:42.79 at Payton Jordan Invitational in Stanford, CA on May 2,2015.
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Abbey Cooper earned a US Roster spot to the IAAF 2015 World Championships in Athletics by qualifying in the 5000 meters in 15:06.59 at the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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Abbey Cooper finished in a time of 8:58.40 in 3000 meters at 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships to place fifth.
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On June 17, Abbey Cooper placed third in 5000 meters at 2016 Adidas BOOST Boston Games in 15:22.29.
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Abbey Cooper left Mark Coogan and Boston after getting married in July 2018.
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Abbey Cooper began being coached by Chris Layne in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Abbey Cooper competed at the 2019 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 5000 meters race where she finished 14th.
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Abbey Cooper achieved a new personal best of 14:52.37 in the 5000m at the Prefontaine Classic on August 20,2021.