April 27, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Houston Dynamo FC News Release
As the Houston Dynamo Football Club celebrates City of Soccer Week this week and highlights the city’s soccer culture and those who helped create it, the Club announced its newest inductees into the Orange Blazer Club on Wednesday. This year’s class celebrates the two of the city’s most dedicated soccer figures.
Jorge Figueroa and Jen Cooper may not be household names for the casual soccer fan, but given the work that they have done to promote the sport, perhaps they should be. Both have played crucial roles, often behind the scenes, in building the game and creating opportunities for people to fall in love with it.
Jen Cooper is a lifelong soccer fan and Rice University almunus that became a booster for her alma mater’s women’s soccer team in the first year of the program’s existence in 2001. Since then, she has spent the last two decades helping to promote the women’s game both in Houston and beyond in a myriad of ways.
Perhaps Cooper’s most significant contribution to the women’s game is the creation of her website Keeper Notes, as well as an annual NWSL almanac, which she tracks, edits and publishes herself. She has gone on to become one of the most influential voices in women’s soccer and the go-to authority on WoSo history and records.
Since the establishment of the Dash, Cooper has held various positions in soccer broadcasting, including as an analyst for the Houston Dash from 2014-2016 and nationally for the NWSL Draft since 2016. Internationally, the Houston native joined NBC as a statistician for the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo and she was a researcher for FOX Sports at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
According to former Houston Dynamos general manager and 2021 Orange Blazer Club inductee, Jen’s passion and knowledge of the sport were always apparent.
“After I was here for a year, I started coaching in the Houston Women’s league,” Walker said. “I had…
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