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2024-25 Men's Track & Field Roster

Sumter Cooper

  • Position Hurdles
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Sumter, S.C.
  • High School Wilson Hall

Biography

TRACK AND FIELD
2025 Outdoor: Competed at the Catamount Classic and Vertklasse.
2025 Indoor: Competed at the VMI Winter Classic and John Weaver Invitational … Was fifth in the 400 meters at the John Weaver Invitational.
2024 Outdoor: Competed in five meets … At the Southern Conference Championship was sixth in the 400-meter hurdles … Was third in the 400-meter hurdles at the UNC Asheville Bulldog Invite.
2024 Indoor: Competed in five meets … Was third at the VMI Winter Classic in the distance medley relay. 
 
PERSONAL RECORDS
400m (51.34) – 2024 Indoor
400m Hurdles (57.64) – 2024 Outdoor
 
HONORS AND AWARDS
2024 Outdoor Southern Conference All-Freshman Team (400m Hurdles)
2023-24 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
2024-25 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
 
HIGH SCHOOL: Ran the 400-meter hurdles and 4x400 relay for three years at Wilson Hall … Team won the region title in 2021 and 2022 … Named Wilson Hall’s top performer in 2021, 2022 and 2023 … At 2023 SCISA Division I Championship was first in the 400-meter hurdles and third in the 110-meter hurdles, along with a fourth place in the pole vault … Member of the National Honor Society and Latin Honors Society. 
 
PERSONAL: Son of Thomas and Liza Cooper … An accounting major … Father is a competitions agronomist for the PGA Tour.
 

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

    Hurdles
  • 2024-25Sophomore

    Hurdles