Tarleton State University Athletics

Carla Cooper established herself as one of the greatest golfers in Tarleton and Lone Star Conference history during her four-year career. Cooper won the LSC Freshman of the Year in 2008 and followed her freshman campaign with three straight LSC Player of the Year awards, becoming the first women's golfer in LSC history to win the award three times. She also won the LSC Academic Player of the Year award in 2010 and 2011. Cooper was a four-time WGCA All-American, the first in school history to accomplish the feat. In Cooper's four-year career, Tarleton swept the Lone Star Conference and NCAA West Regional Championships, winning four straight titles from 2008-11, becoming the first Tarleton golfer to achieve that recognition. When the playoffs started, Cooper was at her best. Cooper won two NCAA West Regional individual titles in 2009 and 2011 – becoming one of two players in school history to do so – and also won the 2011 individual LSC title by shooting 3-under-par in three rounds, which is still an LSC record at the time of her induction. Cooper's career was capped off by becoming the first Tarleton female athlete to win the Lone Star Conference Female Athlete of the Year award in 2011.