SEATTLE (July 7) ­ Matt Cooper, a former Seattle Pacific University track and cross country runner, earned the Addison Brown Award upon graduating magna cum laude from Harvard Law School last month.

Cooper, a Tacoma native, 1998 SPU graduate and recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, received the Addison Brown Award of $7000 for writing the top paper for a third-year law student on the subject of private international law. He is now preparing for the Texas bar exam.

Cooper and his wife, former SPU sprinter Lisa Malmin, now reside in Houston. Malmin, another NCAA Postgraduate Scholar, is an emergency room doctor in Houston.