First Shawnee Female BMX Racer To Be Inducted In OK BMX HOF

  • Cindy (Cooper) Parsons, far left, and her brother Rodney Cooper compete in BMX racing at one of the two tracks in Shawnee in the late 1970s. Parsons and Cooper will be inducted into the Oklahoma BMX Hall of Fame on Oct. 12. Photo provided
    Cindy (Cooper) Parsons, far left, and her brother Rodney Cooper compete in BMX racing at one of the two tracks in Shawnee in the late 1970s. Parsons and Cooper will be inducted into the Oklahoma BMX Hall of Fame on Oct. 12. Photo provided
  • The late Rodney Cooper, of Shawnee, appears in a BMX magazine in the 1970s. Cooper was sponsored by Schwinn and later by Huffy. He and his sister, Cindy (Cooper) Parsons, will be inducted into the Oklahoma BMX Hall of Fame on Oct. 12. Photo provided.
    The late Rodney Cooper, of Shawnee, appears in a BMX magazine in the 1970s. Cooper was sponsored by Schwinn and later by Huffy. He and his sister, Cindy (Cooper) Parsons, will be inducted into the Oklahoma BMX Hall of Fame on Oct. 12. Photo provided.
    When Cindy (Cooper) Parsons was 11 and growing up in 1970s Shawnee, she knew what she wanted and what she didn’t.What she wanted was to race in BMX (bicycle motocross) like her brothers, Shawn and Rodney Cooper, and stepbrothers, Pat and Ronnie Qualls.What she didn’t want was the girls’ three-speed bike with the basket that her parents bought from Cooks Department Store, whe...

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