{"id":62568,"date":"2021-12-15T08:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=62568"},"modified":"2021-12-15T08:07:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:07:31","slug":"cooper-named-miaa-athlete-of-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=62568","title":{"rendered":"Cooper named MIAA Athlete of Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; After winning the 285-pound bracket in convincing fashion at Sunday&#8217;s Bob Smith Open, senior wrestler <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f5d75b5ae-24e9-43d0-a968-4df216b537d6%3felinkdata%3d175741&amp;c=E,1,QYOeLWbUcIal-LoAvNZSiMiU9mudqWN3XSRJ50FDcxtYBeEe3XPpPOqGv-2Lja3zxHkkgmIe2SUBWfJuH5uuov3dfL1OBmYoRK8Q0iK8Ir3BW2FRpFfx3AUlDGY,&amp;typo=1\">A.J. Cooper<\/a> has been named the latest MIAA Wrestler of the Week, announced Tuesday (Dec. 14) by the league office.<br><br> The Cimmaron, Kan. native finished a perfect 5-0 on the day, including three wins over Division II opponents and two wins against ranked wrestlers. He opened the day with a 4-2 decision against the fifth-ranked wrestler in NJCAA before defeating an NAIA wrestler 3-0 in the round of 16. Cooper then cruised past a Nebraska-Kearney heavyweight with a 7-0 decision to reach the semifinals, where he defeated a Central Oklahoma wrestler in sudden victory, 2-1. Cooper saved the best for last, pinning the sixth-ranked wrestler in Division II in 4:11 to take the title.<br><br> Cooper has accumulated a 19-4 record so far this season, including eight bonus-point wins and three pins. He has placed in all four tournaments in which he has competed.<br><br> This is Cooper&#8217;s third weekly conference honor in his career, including one such honor each of the last three seasons.<br><br> Cooper and the rest of the Tigers will wrap up the fall semester at the 42nd Midwest Classic, the largest DII wrestling tournament in the country, this weekend (Dec. 18-19) in Indianapolis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; After winning the 285-pound bracket in convincing fashion at Sunday&#8217;s Bob Smith Open, senior wrestler A.J. Cooper&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7349,784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-wrestling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62569,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62568\/revisions\/62569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}