FACTOIDS
Full Name: Haley Cope
Nickname: Haley
Birthday: April 11, 1979
Height: 5'11"
Hometown: Chicago, California
Sports: Swimming
PROFILE
Long before Haley Cope became the next hot celebrity to grace the pages of both Maxim in a Summer Olympics pictorial and Playboy the way she did in 2004, she was a senior backstroker/freestyler/butterflyer from Chico, CA. She was the 2000 Pac-10 Swimmer of the Year at this past summer's Olympic Trials placed third in the 50-meter free (25.40) and fifth in the 100-meter back (1:02.35) captured the Olympic Trial semifinal in the 100 back (1:02.02)...as a junior (2000) earned Pac-10 Swimmer of the Year honors after leading Cal to NCAA titles in the 200-meter medley relay (world best 1:49.23) and 200-meter free relay (U.S. Open record 1:40.18)?set a short course world record in the 50-meter back (27.25) as a lead-off on the Bears 200-meter medley relay also placed second in the nation in the 100-meter back (59.17) and sixth in the 100-meter butterfly (59.70)?was a member of the Pac-10 champion 200-yard free relay (Pac-10 meet record 1:30.98), 400-yard medley relay (Pac-10 meet record 3:35.71) and 200-yard medley relay (Pac-10 meet record 1:39.27)?earned honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic as a sophomore (1999) helped the Bears set a school record in the 400 free relay and a then school record in the 200 medley relay (backstroke leg), placing second and third respectively at the 1999 NCAA Championship individually, earned All-America honors with a sixth place finish in the 100 fly (career-best 53.28, fourth-best all-time Cal mark) and was an honorable mention All-American with a 10th place finish in the 100 back and 11th place finish in the 200 back (career-best 1:58.80, fifth-best all-time Cal mark) earned honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic as a freshman (1998) earned All-America honors as a member of the 400 free relay team which placed sixth at the NCAA Championship...was also an honorable mention All-American, placing 16th in the 100 back at the NCAAs...broke into the Cal all-time Top 10 list in five individual events-100 back, 200 back, 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly...was named the Bears Most Improved Swimmer...at Chico High School competed for the Chico Aqua Jets...was a Junior National finalist in the 50 free (2nd), 100 back (3rd), 100 fly (5th), 100 free (6th) and 200 IM (7th)...was also a Senior National qualifier in the 50 free and 100 back...earned North Valley Aquatic League All-Star and Sierra Nevada All-Star honors as well...club coach is Brian Clark of the Chico Aqua Jets majoring in mass communications...parents are Neil Cope of Crescent City, CA and Regina Schafer of Hancock, NH...born in Crescent City, CA.
