Tyler Cook

Tyler Cook was born in 1986 in Canton, Ohio and raised in Magnolia, Ohio. His mother was an elementary school teacher named Terri Cook. His father, Mark D. Cook, worked as a trader at his own investment company: Walnut Tree Capitol in East Sparta, Ohio. He has an older sister Rachel, a younger sister Morgan and a younger brother Ryan. At Sandy Valley High School, Cook was involved in sports, specifically baseball and basketball. He excelled at baseball and broke several school records. However, after losing interest in the sport he chose not to pursue it on a collegiate level despite recruitment letters from the Miami Hurricanes of Florida. Cook attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio but later transferred to Kent State University, where he graduated with a degree in Communication Studies and a concentration on Interpersonal Communication. Each summer he traded the futures markets with his father. In addition, he once spent an entire semester off of school to focus on trading. While