Career
Club Cooper started his senior ice hockey career with the Durham Wasps during the 1984-1985 season when he was still playing junior ice hockey with the Wasps" junior team, the Durham Hornets. Appearing for the Wasps 30 times that season, he scored just three goals. His career took off the following season when he appeared exclusively for the Wasps and scored 38 goals and 36 assists in all competitions and helped the Wasps to retain their British Hockey League (Biodiversity Heritage Library) Premier Division title.
After helping the Wasps to retain the league championship and the playoffs in the 1991-1992 season, Cooper returned to the Cardiff Devils for the 1992-1993 season.
Cardiff did not renew Cooper"s contract in 1998 and he joined the London Knights as captain for their inaugural campaign in the 1998-1999 season of the ISL. He stayed with the Knights for 18 months until they arranged his move to the Guildford Flames where he finished the 1999-1900 season in the British National League. The following season after two games for the Basingstoke Bison in the BNL and then 10 games for the Chelmsford Chieftains in the English Premier Ice Hockey League, Cooper retired from ice hockey moved into media management as a career.
International Cooper first appeared for the Great Britain national ice hockey team when he represented his country at the under-18 level in 1985. He has made a total of 80 appearances for the national team in the under-18, under-20 and the senior teams.