COOPER BASKETBALL
Alumni & Support Club
Hello Cooper Basketball family, we hope you had a wonderful Fall. Just want to update you on Cooper Basketball for the month of October 2022.
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The City of Hawthorne Honors Coach Eric Cooper
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Coach Cooper and his staff were honored by the Mayor of the City of Hawthorne, Alex Vargas, and the Mayor Pro Tem, David Patterson, for their participation in the Hawthorne Basketball Academy (HBA). The HBA was a week long youth basketball camp that was run by Coach Eric Cooper for the City and the Hawthorne Police Department. The camp was designed to give the kids in the City of Hawthorne a chance to work side by side with the Hawthorne Police Department. The Hawthorn PD wants to start early in building relationships with teens and young adults by sponsoring events that teach, build character, and keep them off the streets. The camp was fully funded by the City of Hawthorne and the Hawthorn PD. Coach Cooper plans to take this idea to the cities of Chino and Ontario sometime soon.
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Cooper International Academy
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2022/23 Season
Cooper Academy wants to congratulate all of our former Cooper International Academy alumni as they settle in to a new season. Alex Tew, one of the highest profile players to wear a Cooper Uniform, is expected to do great things at Weber State University this season.
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ALEX TEW, 6'11 POWER FORWARD
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY
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Alex will be a sophomore with the Wildcats out of Cheshire, England. He signed at WSU in May 2021 and played in 31 games for Weber State last season.
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Profile
2021-22
Played in 31 games and started in three games as a true freshman for the Wildcats…Averaged 2.3 points and 2.0 rebounds per game and recorded 14 blocked shots…Scored a season-high eight points in how first game of the season against Western Colorado…Also had seven points in a win over Idaho State and pulled down a season-high eight rebounds in a win over Portland State.
Prep school
Spent one year of prep school at Cooper International Academy in Ontario, California...Averaged 18 points and 12 rebounds per game during the season, along with three assists and three blocks per game.
Personal
Was born July 18, 2001…Is majoring in Marketing at Weber State.
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Coach Eric Cooper along with Dream Builders Integrated has created the Hoop Dream Series. The Hoop Dream Series is year long schedule of basketball Events hosted by Coach Cooper, Dream Builders Integrated and many top Basketball Recruiters and Scouts throughout the country.
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The Dream Series’ first stop was to team up with John Ortega who is the founder of the Phoenix-based prep school, Phhoenix Prep Fire, and is also the owner of the Phhacility, a multi-court gymnasium which is located in Phoenix, Arizona. Together they organized the Phoenix Prep Classic (PPC). (Not sure who they is)
The PPC was held on October 1-3, 2022, and brought 22 of the top prep schools in the west to Phoenix, Arizona for a weekend of high level Prep School Basketball.
Here is a list of teams who participated:
Cooper International Academy Black, Cooper International Academy Red, Phoenix Prep Grind, Phoenix Prep Black, Phoenix Prep White, So AZ Vols, Golden State Prep Black, Golden State Prep Grey, AZ Compass National Black, ABC Prep, Trinity International, Vegas Valley Prep, Ascending Life Prep, Skyline National (Top Team), Skyline Select (2nd Team), Skyline Open (3rd Team), Eastern Arizona JC, TMG Prep, Pinnacle Academy, Arizona Sol, Bella Vista, Ascending Life Prep National.
The Dream Series’ first stop was to team up with John Ortega who is the founder of the Phoenix-based prep school, Phhoenix Prep Fire, and is also the owner of the Phhacility, a multi-court gymnasium which is located in Phoenix, Arizona. Together they organized the Phoenix Prep Classic (PPC). (Not sure who they is)
The PPC was held on October 1-3, 2022, and brought 22 of the top prep schools in the west to Phoenix, Arizona for a weekend of high level Prep School Basketball.
The event brought top college coaches from across the US to recruit high profile prep school players.
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The Dream Series’ second stop was to team up with Gerry Freitas with Hoop Review to promote the Fall Prep Classic (FPC). Gerry Freitas is a former division 1 (basketball?) coach who runs a national recruiting service.
The FPC was held on October 8-9, 2022, and brought 40 of the top High School Programs in the west to Chino High School where Coach Cooper and the Chino Staff got a chance to show off their brand new facility. The event was standing room only and had many former NBA greats in attendance such as Kenny Smith, Micheal Cooper, and Robert Horrry. The event was a great success and had over 30 plus college coaches on hand to recruit top athletes.
Here is a list of teams who participated:
OAK HILLS, OAK PARK, HARVARD WESTLAKE, NOTRE DAME, SPRING VALLEY, ORANGEWOOD , CORONADO, FAIRMONT PREP, SAN GABRIEL ACADEMY, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, SANTA MARGARITA , SAN DIEGO, CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC, MODESTO CHRISTIAN, VANDEN, CAPITAL CHRISTIAN, J SERRA, CLOVIS WEST, CLOVIS NORTH, BAKERSFIELD CHRISTIAN, MONTGOMERY, WINDWARD, WEST RANCH, INDERKUM, LIBERTY, ST.. JOSEPH’S, RANCHO VERDE, DURANGO, CENTENNIAL BAKERSFIELD, VILLAGE CHRISTIAN, WESTON RANCH , RANCHO CHRISTIAN, TAFT, CROSSROADS, CANYON, MATER DEI, CORONA CENTENIAL, MARANATHA, ETIWANDA HIGH SCHOOL, CHINO HIGH SCHOOL.
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Mater Dei showed why they are a consistent top school in Southern California.
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Coach Ray Barfield had Rancho Christian High School Clicking on all cylinders.
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CHINO HIGH SCHOOL
FALL PREP CLASSIC & THE BORDER LEAGUE
The Chino High School boys basketball team had a chance to showcase their talents for the 2022/23 season by participating in the Fall Prep Classic and the Las Vegas Border League. Chino matched up against high level talent in the back to back weekend events, The team competed hard and got a chance to improve and get ready for the new season. Chino went 0-8 in 4 days of basketball but used the experience to show some improvement. Coach Cooper's mind set is to have them compete against top level talent early in the season to get them to be ready for a playoff run at the end of the season. Chino saw major improvements from Hayden Decker-Curry, Manuel Alba Jr., Kyle Morgan & Fabian Gonzales. Last seasons Super Sophmores Kevin Gonzales and Nate Mendoza took ready strides to compete for more playing time and new comer Christian Gibson showed that he will compete for a starting job as well. Seniors Justin Reyes and Jason Hilliard will be pressed to show that they both are ready to impress college coaches for scholarship opportunities.
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QuickShot Hoops is going strong and is now being held in new Chino facility. Monday Nights are free to the community. QuickShot Hoops continues to serve Southern California by being the most cost effective way to learn basketball, have fun and get the needed repetition to become a high level player. At a cost of less than $2 per workout kids of all ages flock to learn from Coach Cooper QS Hoops. Your donations continue to help bring this needed developmental tool to your community. www.quickshothoops.net
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Coach Cooper was interviewed by Dr. James Cooley on It's your life Radio.
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This video covers the following subjects: - How faith can change your life? - Faith can change your life - How does faith help a person? - Purpose of faith Coach Eric Cooper was born in Hollywood California. Lived in Carson, Compton, Lynwood and Culver City growing up. Cooper went to Banning High School in Wilmington California where he received a full scholarship to play basketball at the University of Arizona. Cooper is a former collegiate player at the University of Arizona and Texas San Antonio, a professional player in various European countries such as Germany, Holland, Slovenia, Mexico, Sweden, and Ukraine. He has coached on all levels of basketball including professionally in the WNBA (Phoenix Mercury, ABA, Europe, Asia, and South America and at the High School ranks). Coach Cooper is the Founder of Dream Builders a 501c3 non-profit organization and current Head Coach and founder of Cooper International Academy Prep School. Cooper Academy are the 2016 and 2021 Prep Elite Conference Champions. As a high school coach in more than 12 seasons he has won the 2008, 2010 and 2016 CIF Southern Section Championships. He won the 2010 and 2011 CIF State Southern Regional Championships, and the 2010 and 2011 California State Championship. He is currently the Head Coach at Chino High School where he helped the school in his second season win a League Championship, something that had not been done in 43 years and made it to the third round of the southern section playoffs which had not been accomplished since 1968. Coach Cooper lives in Ontario California with his wife of 31 years Eileen Cooper and son Eric Cooper Jr. a graduate of Pepperdine University (currently Playing professionally in Europe) and daughter Ebony who is finishing senior year at UCLA as an applied math major.
Website: https://cooperacademy.org/
Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/coopdream?lang=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coopdream
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/coopdream
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DAVID LOGAN
Thank you to long time supporter of Dream Builders Integrated and Cooper Academy, David Logan for stopping by and talking to the Cooper Academy athletes about life and becoming the best team that they can be.
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We are looking for two things. Your support and your support!!!
The first type of support we need is your involvement. Many of you are pillars in the business community and we could use your talents to help strategize in the planning and execution of securing a facility, upgrading our multimedia department, assisting in house keeping/ taking care of the boys and many other useful things that Cooper needs to flourish. Most of all we want to communicate with you and many others to build a strong team to support our efforts.
The second type of support is financial support. We are asking you to join our SHARING IS CARING program to sow a seed of life into our kids and our program. We are asking our alumni and support team to begin our Sharing is Caring support program. Our entire Dream Builders & Cooper Family has a chance to help support the vision that God has passed on to our group of dedicated mentors.
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Our entire Dream Builders & Cooper Family has a chance to help support the vision that God has passed on to our group of dedicated mentors. We are asking for a monthly donation of $100 to help us see our dreams turn into reality. If that is not possible we encourage you to make a donation of any amount but make it monthly. We will then be able to estimate how your on going support will make an impact in our efforts.
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