cope signed with the puerto rican club valencianas de juncos as the first costa rican to play in the puerto rican league. besides the support she gave for the team along the season, she was released on 27 february 2012 when her team was in eighth place to make room for the american blair brown. she then returned to costa rica to play with san josé bio gel winning her second costa rican championship, the opening tournament. she then traveled to mexico to play the norceca olympic qualification and her team reached the quarterfinals, but only managed to claim the sixth place, not qualifying for the 2012 summer olympics.