Cynthia
Cooper

Cynthia Cooper won NCAA titles at USC in 1983 and 1984 and then played for a decade in Spain and Italy. The Houston Comets landed her in the WNBA’s 1997 initial player allocation. She played for Houston from 1997 to 2000 and again in 2003. She later coached the Phoenix Mercury and several college programs, including Texas Southern, and retired from coaching in 2022. Her first Nike signature shoe, the Air C14, came out in 1999.