| Cooper Sandoval started wresting at age 4 for the Spanish Springs Wrestling Club. It wasn’t until his last tournament of the season that he placed first in a tournament. That win lit a fire in Cooper to want to get better. Cooper joined Team Nevada North for summer training in 2012 and has consistently set and attained goals at the local, state and national level. Joining the Northwest Knights, Cooper won his first Nevada State title in 2012 and has won a state title every year since, earning back to back triple crown awards. |
| Cooper joined Nevada Elite Wrestling National Team and spent a few years adjusting to the regional wrestling scene by competing at Western Regionals in Pocatello. After two years, he finally made the podium and in 2017 became a Western Regional/States champion, and also in 2018 and 2019. |
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| 2018 was a pivotal year for Cooper as he made the podium at Reno Worlds, placing 6th. That summer, Cooper trained and then competed and won Rocky Mountain Nationals Monster Match, Rumble in Reno and became a World of Wrestling Finalist, earning himself a ranking on the World of Wrestling Youth Wrestling list. In 2019 Cooper won the Rocky Mountain Nationals Freakshow, 2020 Tulsa Kickoff, 5th place, won USA Wrestling Salt Lake Slam, won the Rocky Mountain Nationals Rumble in Reno and competed in the gold pool finals for POWA, earning All-American at Wildwood National Duals. |
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Beyond Cooper’s goals in tournaments, his true goal is to always be the “Hardest Worker in The Room”. Cooper trains hard and has the same expectations of his teammates. Cooper is a bilingual honor roll student at Mount Rose Language Academy. Cooper is a talented artist earning himself the following notoriety
- 2017 EDAWN Taxi-Top Design Contest Winner
- 2018 Statewide “Home Means Nevada” Student Art Contest Winner
- 2019 RMN Xtreme Pro 2019 Design Winner
- 2019 EDAWN Taxi-Top Design Contest Winner
- Featured artist at Larkellen Reno
Cooper uses his talents to become one of our region’s youngest philanthropists, to date Cooper has donated to several nonprofits and was named the 2019 Association of Philanthropic Professionals,”Youth Philanthropist of the Year.”
- $3500 pro bono design work for various nonprofits and fundraising initiatives
- $1500 Art Prize donations to Mount Rose Elementary School
- $485 Donations from Art Sales to Tyler Robinson Foundation
- $895 Donations “Pin and Slay Cancer” campaign to Tyler Robinson Foundation
- $250 Donations from Art Sales to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- Silent auction art donation which raised $500 for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- Pro bono contracted entertainment for Children’s Cabinet, Nevada “Art of Childhood”
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| Cooper sets goals and evaluates them every day. He plans to win several World of Wrestling tournaments in the future and would love to wrestle in college at Virginia Tech. |
