Heather Cooke

[bnchzt]

An update on the Malditas: MTV's Real World Las Vegas star and US college footballer Heather Cooke will be joining the women's team in time for the AFF Championships in October. In an interview, Cooke expressed her excitement to represent the country.

[b3lowzro]

if she joins the military, she might lose her eligibility to represent the PHL.

[GerardoDCA]

she's cute hehe

[anakniberto]

kung may James at Phil ang mga babae
meron naman tayong Heather Cooke XD

[Usapang Football]

If you're having an interest already with Heather guys, then keep looking at this thread in the future!

Just a bit of a clue, there will be a few more prospects who I feel will be of interest of the male community of the forum in the future!

[bnchzt]

2009 (Senior): Earned All-MAAC First Team after leading a Loyola defense that allowed just over a goal a game... Helped the Greyhounds advance to the NCAA College Cup... Named to NSCAA/adidas All-Northeast Region Second Team... Scored a goal and assisted on two in 23 starts. 2008 (Junior): Earned All-MAAC Second Team honors... Started all 20 games during her junior season... Recorded two shots and one goal... Earned game-tying goal during 1-1 tie at Manhattan... Helped Loyola's defense to a 1.38 goals against average.


2007 (Sophomore): Named to the All-MAAC Second Team after starting all 21 games as a center back... Scored a goal and took six shots during the season... Her goal came against Marquette (9/14) in the Colorado College Tournament off a Lina Staropoli corner kick... Part of a defensive unit that posted a 0.99 goals against average and held 10 teams scoreless.



2006 (Freshman): Played in 18 games, starting nine... Finished with a goal and an assist... Scored her first collegiate point on an assist of a Carolyn Kennington goal against then-No. 1 ranked Florida State... Scored her first goal as a Loyola player in a 4-0 victory over Iona (10/22).

High School: Earned eight letters - four each in soccer and track and field - at Leonardtown (Md.) High School for Head Coach Jen Henderson... Captain of the soccer team as a junior and senior and captain of the track and field squad as a senior... Played as a forward/midfielder in high school... Helped the Raiders win the Southern Maryland Athletic Conference (SMAC) Championship in 2003 and 2005... Scored the game-winning goal on a penalty kick with three minutes remaining to secure the 2005 SMAC title with a win over Northern High School... Earned SMAC Most Valuable Player honors as a senior... Named to The Washington Post All-Metro Honorable Mention as a junior and senior... Also earned All-State and All-SMAC and All-St. Mary's County First Team... Named the soccer team's Most Outstanding Player... Earned Highest Honor Roll mention at Leonardtown and received the school's English Award as a sophomore and Most Spirited Award as a senior... Parlimentarian of the National Honors Society and was active in student council... Was Co-Editor of the yearbook and member of the Peer Development Program... Competed in club soccer for the Bethesda Extreme and Coach Dave Greene, garnering two Maryland State Cup Championships (2005-2006)... Member of Maryland ODP three years (2003-2005), including advancing to Region 1 Finalist in 2004.


Personal: Heather Marie Cooke... Daughter of Terrence and Elsa Cooke... Born in California, Md... Has an older brother, Jason, who played soccer at Pittsburgh, and a younger sister, Jessica... Majoring in international business at Loyola.

Cooke's Career Statistics
YEAR GP GS G A Pts Shots Shot% SOG SOG% GW PK-Att
2006 18 9 1 1 3 6 .167 5 .833 0 0-0
2007 21 21 1 0 2 6 .167 1 .167 0 0-0
2008 20 20 1 0 2 2 .500 1 .500 0 0-0
2009 23 23 1 2 4 6 .167 2 .333 0 0-0
TOTAL 82 73 4 3 11 20 .200 9 .450 0 0-0

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Heather Cooke linked with Malditas

Manila, JULY 21 (Sugod.com) – The Real World Las Vegas star Heather Cooke has been linked with Malditas, the Philippines women’s national football team.

Manila Standard Today reported that Cooke will be coming to the Philippines for a try out in the country’s national football team.

According to the report “team manager and coach Ernie Nierras said yesterday that Fil-American Heather Cooke … will join the tryouts for the national women’s team in the next few weeks.”

Cooke was featured in The Real World: Las Vegas, the 25th season of MTV’s reality television series “about a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras document their lives and interpersonal relationships.” according to Wikipedia.org.

Heather Cooke, a Loyola Maryland soccer player, first appeared in the show in Episode 7 as the new roommate after Adam was kicked-out.

[cjeagle]

www.abs-cbnnews.com/sports/09/12/11/fil-american-mtv-star-reinforces-philippine-malditas-xi

Fil-American MTV star reinforces Philippine Malditas football XI
by Jojo Malig, abs-cbnNEWS.com
Posted at 09/12/2011 10:00 PM | Updated as of 09/12/2011 10:40 PM

MANILA, Philippines - A former Loyola University Maryland women's football centerback and MTV "The Real World: Las Vegas" reality show star is reinforcing the Philippine Malditas in their 2011 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Women's Championship title bid next month.

Heather Cooke, daughter of a US Naval officer and a Filipina, has been confirmed in the Malditas' official lineup for the tournament, which will be held in Vientiane, Laos, from October 16 to October 25.

She will arrive in the Philippines Tuesday night to join her teammates, according to the Malditas' official page on Facebook.

Aside from the 21-year-old Cooke, the team features another Filipina-American, Patrice Impelido, Filipina-Germans Cristina Keuter and Lorrene Bayani, and Canadian Mallory Dayot.

The other members of the team are team captain Marielle Benitez, Maan del Carmen, Louella Leah Amamio, Isabella Fernando, Samantha Nierras, Stephanie Pheasant, Jowee-Ann Barruga, Marice Magdolot, Nikki Regalado, Natasha Alquiros, Joma Clemente, Betina Yang, Inna Palacios, Jane Mariz Pacana, Camille Rodriguez, Aiza Mondero, Zipporah Luna, Marie Magdolot, Pricilla Rubio, Nenita Burgess, and Kyra Tagbo.

The Philippines, which is in Group B in the tournament, will open its campaign against Myanmar.

The Malditas will also face Thailand and Malaysia in the group stage.

The Philippines may take on Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, and host Laos in the knockout stage if the Malditas advance from the group stage.

Soccer standout

Cooke was a Division 1 player and was a 4-year women's football letter winner, an All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference First Team honoree, and a recipient of the Ernest Lagna and John R. Moller Awards while she played for the Loyola University Maryland Greyhounds.

She graduated in 2010 from Loyola University Maryland before she joined the MTV reality television series that documented the lives of diverse strangers living together for several months.

The Loyola Greyhounds website describes Cooke as a defensive standout.

She helped the Greyhounds to a 30-19-11 overall record in 3 seasons, and a 20-1-6 mark in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MACC) competition.

Loyola won 2 conference regular-season titles and a MAAC tournament title while Cooke was with the team.

Cooke was named MAAC Defensive Player of the Year in her senior season. She was an All-MAAC First Team selection and named to the NSCAA/adidas All-Northeast Region team in 2009, while earning All-MAAC Second Team honors in 2008.

Her mother, Elsie, was born and raised in the Philippines before leaving for the US at the age of 21.

It will be Cooke's second time to visit the Philippines.

"I'm so proud of her, and so happy that she has gotten the opportunity to play with the Philippine National Team," her former teammate and defensive partner Sarra Moller said in the Greyhounds website. "I know it's something she's wanted to do for some time now."

[jpmanahan]

She has been with the national team for the last two years. Scored opening goal vs Iran.

Long overdue for this thread to be moved to the profile section.

[stellarboy]

Welcome to the Women's Profiles board!

[cjeagle]

Great news for Heather. She finally signed a pro contract with a team in Sweden. Congrats Cookie.

kickitwithcookie.blogspot.com/2014/04/im-finally-pro.html

Wednesday, April 16, 2014
I'M FINALLY PRO!
I'm finally PRO!!!! After 21 years I am here! I think from the beginning, I knew I would not stop until I accomplished this goal. My mom told me I couldn't wait to play soccer and that I was upset when they wouldn't let me play when I was 3 1/2! And even at 4, I would push whoever to get the ball including my own teammates! I don't know where this innate desire to play came from. I would say it started from my older brother who played and once this game peaked interest I couldn't stop. Soccer and family are the two things that have been consistent and present in my life. I don't know what I would do without either of them. I am so grateful to be able to play the wonderful game at 25. But the number one reason I am made it here.. I never gave up!

Wow, it has been a journey. Growing up in a smaller town, it was hard to find better competition. I played on an all boys team at 9. In middle school, I played an age group up on a travel team in the next county. In high school, I had commitments to 3 soccer teams (high school-Leonardtown, Maryland Olympic Development Program-ODP, and club-Bethesda). ODP and Bethesda had practices year round with most of them two hours away. And then I played at Loyola University Maryland and in the summers I played on travel teams as well. Post college I really didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. Two summers after I graduated I randomly googled the Philippines if they had a national team. I emailed the federation and less than two months later I was playing in my first tournament for my mom's home country! I would play for the Philippines in the fall, find work in the spring, and then play in a semipro league in the summer wherever soccer called me- one summer in Jacksonville, Florida and last summer in Santa Clarita, California. I wrote a status on Facebook how I needed a place to stay in FL and someone I had met a few months ago that worked for an international company that sponsored my Philippines team had a brother in Jax with a place I could stay. In Cali, my coach had a filipino friend who had friend who had a friend where I could stay! And in the Philippines, I mostly stayed with some of my teammates in my coach's house! This is what my dad refers to as my gypsy life! Anyway, I continued to develop as a player and got invited to the preseason camp for the National Women's Soccer League's (NWSL) Washington Spirit. Unfortunately, a week later I was cut. But, I didn't stop!

This year I got invited to the Chicago Red Stars training camp. I got to train with their team for three weeks. I actually knew their athletic trainer because she went to school with one of my teammates from the Philippine National Team! Such a small world. I stayed with her for duration of camp. Last year when I was with the spirit I was more than overwhelmed. I simply was not at the level, but I knew I could be. I worked on my technical ability and it definitely approved. However, at Chicago things still went over my head. It was such a learning process though. As player I learned a lot and was challenged day in and day out. From a coaching perspective I gained valuable knowledge for my future. Not as many coaches as you think have gotten this sort of exposure. While I am playing, I am always trying to take coaching courses and gain experience, so when that unfortunate day when I can't play competitively any more comes, I can hopefully get a job coaching.

Shortly before I arrived at Chicago, I was offered to play for a team in Sweden. One of my teammates from Loyola had played over there and I had been in talks with her contact. He found me a team and I signed the contract. I have never been to Sweden and I didn't know much about the team or the league, but this opportunity was exactly what I wanted. I get to continue to ball (and I am actually baller status now as it is a professional contract!) and I get to travel. What 25 year old doesn't want to be traveling and playing professional sports!? This is exactly what I want to be doing right now and I am happy to say my journey continues!! I will be playing for Landsbro IF and living in Vetlanda, Sweden. I cannot wait!

[rawr]

she kinda looks like Solenn Heusaff good news for her tho.

[cjeagle]

Cookie’s Corner: Team bonding at an all-time high



Monday, July 4, 2016
PWNT veteran Heather Cooke checks in on her third week in the country!
Today marks Week 3 of my time in the Philippines. The last two weeks have felt like two months! Manila traffic is no joke! I also have been feeling like I am living in The Challenge House again, but the far less glamorous version of it, sans drama too!
Heather fooling around with Caitlyn (California Polytechnic State University), Jennizel (University of Sto. Tomas), Christille (University of the Philippines), Alesa (Far Eastern University) and Regine (De La Salle University).
We are all currently living in the Philippines Sports Complex known as Ultra. I have been here before and it is still a place I wouldn't pick to stay, but you must deal with the cards you are dealt and carry on! Team bonding is at an all time high. We are starting to mesh. You won't see the Fil-Ams (Filipino Americans) in one room and the local-based players in another. We are in three rooms and even in down time we are all mixed We are blending well and one thing you should know about us Filipinos is that we love to joke! Lots of laughs and memories are being made in the time we are not on the soccer field.
As for soccer, we are getting there! We are grasping our concepts and figuring it out. I enjoy listening to others speak in Tagalog because I try to see if I know what everyone is saying. I really want to learn, but it is hard at my age!! There are times where I definitely have to ask questions to make sure I understand. I am sort of used to this from my time in Sweden when I really had to ask questions and get the English version! It's a process, but it is really cool to see soccer from multiple perspectives and cultures!

Besides soccer and hanging with my teammates, I have also got the opportunity to visit with my cousins based in Manila. It has been great to get to know them more as I have only been able to see them face to face a few times in my life! Family is family and it doesn't matter because we are there for each other no matter what! I am learning new things about them and myself every day. It's a beautiful experience even in the tough times. I really appreciate the life that I have and all that I have.
Can't wait to get into next week with a focused mindset on our tournament. It's only 3 weeks away!! Let's do this!

[cjeagle]

Published on May 1, 2016

Training with Trainer Gorres in Myrtle Beach to get ready for the AFF Championship this summer in Myanmar for the Philippines National Team. Much love to Trainer Gorres for making me faster, stronger, quicker, and flat out better. Excited for what's to come.