Education
Cope attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she swam for coach Teri McKeever"s California Golden Bears swimming and diving team from 1998 to 2001.
Cope attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she swam for coach Teri McKeever"s California Golden Bears swimming and diving team from 1998 to 2001.
In 2000, she was named the Pacific-10 Conference swimmer of the year, and helped lead California to a fourth-place finish nationally. At the 2000 National Collegiate Athletic Association national championships in Indianapolis, she swam the 50-meter backstroke in 27.25 seconds, breaking Sandra Völker"s short-course world record. She graduated in 2001 with a bachelor"s degree in mass communications.
Her 50-meter backstroke performance at the Goodwill Games was a record time for the competition.
After graduating from Berkeley, Cope continued her swimming career, winning her second short course worlds title at the 2002 Short Course World Swimming Championships held in Moscow. Cope"s last major international competition was in October 2004, at the 2004 Short Course World Swimming Championships in Indianapolis.