Jordan Kopac
Head Coach
Coach Jordan Kopac will enter his first season with the Wolfpack. Coach Kopac served as the Racine Raiders head coach during their National Championship season in 2001, and later returned for the 2005-2007 seasons. The Raiders went 49-16, a .754 winning percentage, under Kopac's leadership.
Coach Kopac has a doctorate in business philosophy. In his previous professional experiences, Coach Kopac has served as a professor in business at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He currently is owner and president of International Production Specialists, Inc.
Dave Mogensen
Offensive Coordinator
Coach Mogensen is entering his second year in the Wolfpack organization. He orchestrated a Wolfpack offense during the 2008 North American Football League (NAFL) season that saw them lead the Dells Division in total offense. Under his guidance, three Wolfpack players were named NAFL Northern Conference All-Stars.
Mogensen also served as the Offensive Coordinator of the Milwaukee Bonecrushers for the final seven games of the 2008 Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL) season. He was at the helm of the offense for the Bonecrushers first ever franchise win, a 51-46 victory over the Muskegon Thunder.
Coach Mogensen was recently named head football coach at Shorewood High School and will take the reigns of the Shorewood/Messmer football program. His previous high school stops include stints as the Offensive Coordinator at Grafton (2008), Milwaukee Hamilton (2007), and East Troy (2004-2006).
Born in Chicago, Mogensen was a three-time letterwinner and all-conference player at Elkhorn (Wis.) High School. Following a highly successful high school career, Dave turned down bigger offers and instead chose to play for the first ever football team at Wisconsin Lutheran College. He is currently employed by Whitefish Bay High School.
Chris Pivovar
Defensive Coordinator
Chris Tessman
Offensive/Defensive Line Coach
Coach Tessmann began his coaching career while a student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. As a student assistant coach in 2004, he worked with the offensive line and tight ends. He then moved on to the defensive line from 2004 to 2006, and back to tight ends in 2007. During that span, UW-Whitewater posted a 35-6 record and made two appearances in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the Division III national championship game.
Following his graduation in 2007, Tessmann went on to a graduate assistant position at D-II Southwest Minnesota State University, where he coached the outside linebackers.
During the 2008 season, he was the defensive coordinator at his alma mater, Portage High School.
Tom Stetzer
Quarterbacks Coach
Jerry Kupper
Defensive Secondary Coach
Phil Micech
Defensive Line Coach
Micech's name goes back to the roots of indoor football as he scored the first points in Arena Football League history, recording a safety in a 1986 game that took place in Rockford, Illinois.
Phil coached and played with the Racine Raiders for 23 years and is in every minor league football hall of fame imaginable and had his number 83 retired by the Raiders' organization.
Phil also enjoyed a short stint with the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL in the 1980's.
He was a two-time all-league defensive lineman for UW-Platteville in 1981-82. Micech continues to coach the defensive line at his alma mater.
Phil coached and played with the Racine Raiders for 23 years and is in every minor league football hall of fame imaginable and had his number 83 retired by the Raiders' organization.
Phil also enjoyed a short stint with the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL in the 1980's.
He was a two-time all-league defensive lineman for UW-Platteville in 1981-82. Micech continues to coach the defensive line at his alma mater.
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