CHICAGO, IL - The Illinois Tech Scarlet Hawk Baseball Team met with Chicago White Sox pitching Coach Don Cooper this afternoon. Cooper, a New York City native, is a graduate from New York City Institute of Technology. In his professional playing career he played for the Minnesota Twins (1981-82), Toronto Blue Jays (1983), and the New York Yankees (1985).

Cooper came by this afternoon to meet with the team and give them some of his coaching expertise. Coach Born stated "This is a great opportunity for our guys to meet with an extremely high caliber coach. It's a unique experience that I feel the team really will take a lot from." Coach Cooper was able to find about an hour out of his day to talk baseball mentality and strategy to the team.

Don Cooper has been in the White Sox organization since 1988. He is currently in his ninth full season as the White Sox pitching coach. He was named pitching coach in July of 2002 after serving as the organization's minor-league pitching coordinator from 1997-2002. The White Sox have gone 721-638 since his appointment and have led the major leagues with 704 quality starts since 2003.