Rob Cooper

Rob Cooper is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions baseball program. Cooper was appointed to the position of head coach prior to the start of the 2014 season.[1][2]

Rob Cooper

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Penn State
Conference	Big Ten
Record	126–192
Playing career
1990–1991	Sacramento City College
1992–1993	Miami (FL)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1994–1995	Miami (FL) (Asst.)
1996	Wake Forest (Asst.)
1997–1998	Tulane (Asst.)
1999–2003	Sacramento City College (Asst.)
2004	Oral Roberts (Asst.)
2005–2013	Wright State
2014–present	Penn State
Head coaching record
Overall	412–422
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
2× Horizon League Coach of the Year (2010, 2011)

Early life

Cooper played baseball at Sacramento City College for two years before transferring to the University of Miami for his final two years. He served as a student assistant coach at Miami in 1994 while finishing his degree. From 1990–1992, Cooper worked as a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers.[1][3]

Coaching career

Cooper earned a graduate assistant coach position at Miami for the 1995 season before moving to Wake Forest for the 1996 season. He then coached for two seasons at Tulane, where he helped lead the Green Wave to a conference regular season crown in 1997 and an NCAA berth in 1998. He then returned to Sacramento City College, serving as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for five seasons.[4] Cooper then served one season as an assistant at Oral Roberts before being named head coach at Wright State. In nine seasons, Cooper led the Raiders to seven 30-win seasons, two Horizon League and three Horizon League Baseball Tournament championships, and three NCAA Division I Baseball Championship appearances.[1] Prior to his arrival, the Raiders had finished six of the previous seven seasons with losing records.[4] In August 2013, Cooper was named head coach at Penn State, a similar rebuilding job to what he faced at Wright State.

Head coaching record

This table shows Cooper's record as a head coach at the Division I level.[1]

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Wright State Raiders (Horizon League) (2005–2013)
2005	Wright State	26–33	11–9	4th
2006	Wright State	32–27	17–13	3rd	NCAA Regional
2007	Wright State	36–22	21–9	2nd
2008	Wright State	30–23	16–6	2nd
2009	Wright State	33–30	14–12	3rd	NCAA Regional
2010	Wright State	31–25	17–6	1st
2011	Wright State	36–19	16–7	T-1st	NCAA Regional
2012	Wright State	37–21	20–10	2nd
2013	Wright State	25–30	9–12	4th
Wright State:		286–230	141–84
Penn State Nittany Lions (Big Ten) (2014–present)
2014	Penn State	18–32	5–18	11th
2015	Penn State	18–30	6–16	12th
2016	Penn State	28–27	12–12	T–9th
2017	Penn State	18–37	4–20	11th
2018	Penn State	13–34	3–21	13th
2019	Penn State	21–27	4–18	13th
2020	Penn State	10–5	0–0		Season canceled due to COVID-19
Penn State:		126–192	34–105
Total:		412–422
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

See also

• List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches

References

1. "Rob Cooper Biography". Wright State Raiders. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
2. Travis Johnson (August 9, 2013). "Penn State baseball: Rob Cooper hired to lead Nittany Lions, excited about future". Centre Daily Times. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
3. "Wright State's Rob Cooper Named 2013 18U National Team Manager". Horizon League. January 6, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
4. Brian Foley (August 9, 2013). "Penn State names Rob Cooper as head coach". College Baseball Daily. Retrieved September 6, 2013.

External links

• Rob Cooper, Head Baseball Coach, Penn State University Nittany Lions