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Owen Cooper is in his third year as the associate director of football video operations for the University of Iowa football program. Cooper is a UI graduate and previously worked in multiple roles with the Hawkeye football program.
As part of his duties, Cooper works in all areas of video coverage of Hawkeye football, including production of coaching analysis videos, coordination of practice and game video coverage, maintaining student-athlete iPads for playbook and film review, breakdown of weekly opponent video and maintaining functionality of staff and position meeting rooms.
In addition, Cooper serves as a liaison between the football staff and the university IT department, aids the recruiting staff with evaluation software, manages a full-time assistant video director, oversees a staff of 12 student video assistants, and collaborates with the football coaching staff to develop electronic playbooks and acquire video resources.
During his first two seasons on the Hawkeye staff, Iowa won a combined 17 games, featured four consensus All-Americans, and saw its offensive line earn the 2025 Joe Moore Award.
In 2023, he held the position of director of football video operations at Northwestern University. Cooper also served as the assistant director of football video for the Missouri football program from 2021 to 2022.
Cooper previously served as Iowa’s assistant director of football video operations from 2022 to 2023, worked as an offensive administrative assistant for tight ends from 2015 to 2016, and was a student video assistant from 2013 to 2015.
Other positions held include serving as a graduate assistant for video/football operations at Northern Illinois University in 2017 and an assistant video analyst for the St. Louis Battlehawks of the XFL in 2020.
Cooper earned his bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of Iowa in 2015 and a master’s degree in sport management from Northern Illinois in 2019.
A native of Johnston, Iowa, Cooper and his wife, Margaret Tietjen, reside in the area with their daughter, Nelle.