Hall of Fame
Cooper-Dyke began her professional career overseas playing ten seasons in Spain and Italy. She returned to the United States in 1997 to play in the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBA) for the Houston Comets. She subsequently led the Comets to four consecutive WNBA Championships being named the WNBA Finals MVP each time and was a four-time WNBA All-Star before retiring in 2000.
Cooper-Dyke joined the Prairie View A&M women’s basketball program as the head coach in May of 2005. She quickly guided the Lady Panthers to their first SWAC regular-season title, SWAC Tournament title, and an NCAA Tournament berth in 2006-07 while collecting conference Coach-of-the-Year honors.
She is currently the head women’s basketball coach at Texas Southern University where she made an immediate impact. Cooper-Dyke was named CAA Coach-of-the-Year in 2012, marking the third time in her six-year collegiate coaching career that she has earned Coach-of-the-Year accolades.
She was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009, and she has also been active beyond the basketball court. In 2000, she published her autobiography, "She Got Game: My Personal Odyssey," chronicling her childhood, basketball career, and her mother's battle with breast cancer.