on August 13 of that year. Personal Although born in Chicago, Illinois, Cooper-Dyke grew up in South Central Los Angeles, California. Cooper-Dyke is the daughter of Mary and Kenny Cooper. Her father left the family when she was only six years old, leaving her mother to raise eight children. Cooper-Dyke attended the University of Southern California and played on their women's basketball team for four years, winning NCAA championships in 1983 and 1984 with star teammate Cheryl Miller, but left in 1986 before earning a degree. She played on international women's basketball teams in Spain and Italy for a decade before returning to the US to play for the Houston Comets. While abroad she learned to speak Italian fluently. In 2000, she published her autobiography, entitled She Got Game: My Personal Odyssey, which covered her childhood, her basketball career up to that time, and her mother's battle with breast cancer. Her first marriage was on July 30, 1993 to Anthony Stewart in San Antonio, Texas. On April 28, 2001 she was married to Brian Dyke. She is a mother to twins – a son, Brian Jr., and a daughter, Cyan, born June 15, 2002. After a successful college and professional basketball career, won four WNBA Championships and induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame, she turned to coaching. She began her coaching career in 2005 at Prairie View A&M University in Texas and guided the team to three SWAC Championships. While at the university, Cooper-Dyke turned student and coach and completed college requirements and earned a bachelor's degree in Health and Human Performance in 2010. Head coaching record WNBA |- | style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix | style="text-align:left;"|2001 |32||13||19|||| align="center"|5th|||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|— |- | style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix | style="text-align:left;"|2002 |10||6||4|||| align="center"|(resigned)|||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|— |- class="sortbottom" | align="center" colspan="2"|Career |42||19||23|||| ||—||—||—||—|| College Awards and achievements 2x Ronchetti Cup (1990, 1993) 2× WNBA MVP (1997, 1998) 3× WNBA All-Star (1999, 2000, 2003) 4× WNBA Champion (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000) 4× WNBA Finals MVP (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000) WNBA Hall of Fame (2009) Women's Basketball Hall of Fame (2009) Basketball Hall of Fame (2010) CAA Coach of the Year (2010) WBCBL Professional Basketball Trailblazer Award (2015) Notes References External links 1963 births Living people 20th-century African-American sportspeople 20th-century African-American women 21st-century African-American sportspeople 21st-century African-American women African-American basketball coaches African-American basketball players American expatriate basketball people in Italy American expatriate basketball people in Spain American women's basketball coaches American