Tyler Cooper enters his second season as an assistant coach at Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2015-16.
The Roadrunners finished the 2014-15 season with a 26-6 record, including 19-3 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. They captured a share of the RMAC regular season championship, their third consecutive RMAC title. MSU Denver is just the second team in RMAC history and first since 1982 to win three consecutive RMAC regular season championships.
Senior Mitch McCarron earned NABC national player of the year, becoming the second Roadrunner in as many years to earn the award. He helped MSU Denver be ranked as high as No. 3 in NCAA Division II. McCarron and fellow senior Nicholas Kay were both named Capital One first team Academic All-America, the second pair of teammates to both earn first team Academic All-America in Division II history. Those two were not the only players to succeed in the classroom as the team carried a 3.36 GPA for the school year.
Cooper spent the 2013-14 season as an assistant at NCAA Division II Western Oregon University, helping WOU to its best season in school history with an 18-12 record.
Prior to starting his coaching career, Cooper played two seasons at MSU Denver, helping the Roadrunners reach the Elite Eight as a junior and the national championship game as a senior. He scored 180 points in his two seasons, connecting on 40 percent from 3-point range as a senior. In his two seasons, he played in 67 games with 11 starts as a guard.
A native of Huntington Beach, Calif., Cooper graduated from MSU Denver in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in human performance and sport with a minor in marketing. He earned his master's degree from Concordia University-Irvine in 2014 in coaching and athletic administration.
