Richard Cooper

Professor Cooper has been heavily involved in sport at Oxford for 45 years, firstly as a student playing Hockey and Cricket and then as a key supporter of organised sport as a senior member of sports teams and as an academic member of staff. He has recently retired as Chair of the University Sports Committee after 15 years loyal service in which time the sports service has trebled its size in terms of student sports provision, including the successful opening of a water based hockey pitch, short course swimming pool, student gym and a fully staffed Sports Federation. He has continued to play cricket for the Uni emeriti team and his leadership and standing within the institution has taken sport forward by leaps and bounds and as such he represents all that is great in Oxford University Sport.