# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melody-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:38:05.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melody-cooper"
name: "Melody Cooper"
slug: "melody-cooper"
description: "Melody Cooper is a New Zealand field hockey player. \nShe has played in the midfield and defence positions. She played club hockey in New Zealand and in South Australia before representing New Zealand at the 2012 London Olympics. Melody was captain of the SA Suns team that won the Australian Hockey League Championship in 2011. In 2023 Cooper was appointed as a South Australian Ambassador for the Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Centre for Women’s Sport."
tagline: "Olympic field hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melody_Cooper_-_Women's_Olympic_Hockey_USA_vs._New_Zealand.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1983-03-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.601872
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "ميلودي كوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "ميلودى كوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_Cooper"
    title: "Melody Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_Cooper"
    title: "Melody Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_Cooper"
    title: "Melody Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6813440"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump