Jane Young Cooper

Jane (née Young) Cooper was born and raised in Waterloo and is well known by the International tennis community.

Cooper was Canadian Junior National Champion, 1983 and represented Canada on the Junior National Team competing in many International competitions.

Cooper received a full athletic scholarship to the University of Mississippi and represented this NCAA Division 1 school as their #1 player from 1984 to 1988. During this time she participated in the NCAA tournament and was added to the southeastern Conference Scholar-Athletic Honour Roll in 1987. She graduated from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration.

She was Canadian National Women’s Champion in 1985 and represented Canada on the Federation Cup Canadian National Team in 1985, 1986 and 1987. Cooper has won many tennis tournaments at the local, Provincial, National and International level throughout her amateur and professional career, one of which was the Professional Circuit of Michigan.

Cooper’s professional career has taken her around the world playing all of the major championships including the US Open and she has earned many honours, including: Canadian National Female Sportsmanship Award in 1984, Federation Cup Tournament – Team Elegance Award in 1985, Certificate of Merit – Outstanding Young Citizen in 1986, Kitchener Waterloo Oktoberfest Woman of the Year, Tennis Canada Special Achievement Award and Tennis Teaching Professional Outstanding Service Award in 1987.

She returned to school after her tennis career and graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1995 with a Bachelor of Laws. She was called to the Degree of Barrister at Law in 1997 and has been working as an Assistant Crown Attorney since 1997 in the Waterloo Region.

She was married in 1997 to Mark Cooper and they are living in Waterloo.

Photograph Copyright David James Photography, Waterloo.

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