Amy Cooper continues to make history: She was named Augsburg University’s new athletic director earlier this spring and assumed her new duties June 1 as the school’s first Black AD.
Cooper, a Minneapolis native, helped the University of St. Thomas through its transition from Division III to DI as senior associate athletics director. “I think everything in my career has led me to be prepared for this,” she told the MSR shortly after assuming the AU position.
Among her first tasks was to hire KiJuan Ware as the school’s first Black head football coach. She recently hired Christa Burgess as senior associate AD, who brings more than eight years of leadership experience in athletic administration, most recently as Trinity Washington (D.C.) University athletic director.
Reflecting on her time at UST, “There’s so many things at St. Thomas” she was responsible for, Cooper pointed out. “I was over the finances, compliance, and reclassification, so all of that was just a huge learning process…