MG grad speaking at coaches’ clinic

By ROB HAMILTON

Mount Gilead grad­u­ate Jerry Cooper, the head foot­ball coach at Lima Cen­tral Catholic, will speak on Fri­day at the 2013 Michi­gan Foot­ball Coaches’ Clinic in Ann Arbor.

Accord­ing to the clinic’s ten­ta­tive sched­ule, Cooper will speak at 9 a.m. on Fri­day about “Mul­ti­ple Con­cepts Off the Fly Series”.

The clinic will take place Thurs­day, Fri­day and Sat­ur­day, Mul­ti­ple high school coaches and mem­bers of the Michi­gan staff will speak dur­ing those three days, as will a pair of NFL assis­tant coaches in Jack­sonville spe­cial team coor­di­na­tor Mike Mal­lory and Bal­ti­more defen­sive coor­di­na­tor Dean Pees.

Cooper is a 1977 grad­u­ate of Mount Gilead and 1981 grad­u­ate of Otter­bein. He earned his Master’s degree from Ash­land in 1983. He is mar­ried to Amy Ann (Mason ) Cooper and they have a daugh­ter, Kayla, and son, Tyler.

He has 26 years of head coach­ing expe­ri­ence and has built a win­ning pro­gram in all six high schools where he has coached with an excel­lent over­all career record of 227–74.

Cooper’s teams have won 13 con­fer­ence cham­pi­onships. He’s fin­ished the reg­u­lar sea­son 10–0 five times and 9–1 seven other years. He has led 16 teams to the OHSAA play­offs, includ­ing four final four teams. He also coached his team to a state cham­pi­onship in 2003.

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