Cooper comes to the AWL after playing professionally in the Arizona Diamondbacks system as well as a season with the Frontier League’s Traverse City Beach Bums and at the University of Utah. Hit .213 with six home runs in 67 games for the Yakima Bears (Short season A) in 2012 before returning in 2014 in the Frontier League, batting .266 with a home run in 17 games. Hit .332 with eight homers in 50 games in his junior season with the Utes, finishing sixth in the Mountain West Conference in batting average. Hit .228 his senior year with eight homers as Utah made the leap to the Pac-10. Started college career in 2009 at Arizona, where he hit .300 with three homers in 27 games before transferring to Pima, where he hit .330 with 18 steals. Exceptional student who graduated Catalina Magnet High School with a 4.0 GPA and with the all-time Arizona 4A high school career record in home runs with 37.