Cynthia Lynne Cooper-Dyke was born on April 14,1963 and is an American basketball coach and former player who has won championships in college, in the Olympics, and in the Women's National Basketball Association.
18 Facts About Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke is considered by many as one of the greatest basketball players ever.
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In 2011, Cooper-Dyke was voted by fans as one of the Top 15 players in WNBA history.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke still holds the record for most Finals MVPs with four.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke led her team to the California State Championship scoring an average of 31 points per game, and scoring 44 points in one game.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke led the Women of Troy to NCAA appearances in all four years, Final Four appearances in three of her four years, and back-to-back NCAA tournament titles in 1983 and 1984.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke completed four years with USC, although she did not graduate.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke led the league in scoring three consecutive years, shocking the franchise to a record four WNBA Championships.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke scored 30 or more points in 16 of her 120 games and had a 92-game double-figure scoring streak from 1997 to 2000.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke went on to coach the Phoenix Mercury for one and a half seasons.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke was named SWAC Coach of the Year for 2007.
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On May 10,2010, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke was announced as the next head coach of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks Women's Basketball team.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke was the 2011 Colonial Athletic Association Coach of the Year, her third conference yearly honor of that sort.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke was announced as a member of the 2010 induction class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and was formally inducted on August 13 of that year.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke's father left the family when she was only six years old, leaving her mother to raise eight children.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke attended the University of Southern California and played on their women's basketball team for four years, winning NCAA championships in 1983 and 1984 with star teammate Cheryl Miller, but left in 1986 before earning a degree.
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke played on international women's basketball teams in Spain and Italy for a decade before returning to the US to play for the Houston Comets.