Dan Kopp
Director of Operations
First Season
(Youngstown State, 1995)

    Dan Kopp, a Youngstown native, joins the football program as the Director of Football Operations.
    Kopp comes from a football family and previously worked within the YSU Athletic Department as a student equipment manager.
    Prior to stepping into the new role of Operations, Kopp spent the past year as an account executive for the Mahoning Valley Thunder, Youngstown’s Arena2 Football League franchise.
    For the Thunder, Kopp helped generate corporate partnerships, season-ticket and individual ticket sales. In 2007, the front office earned the af2’s President’s Award for Best Overall Team Operations.
    A 1995 graduate of YSU, Kopp’s father John has more than 35 years coaches at several high schools in the Valley. Dan spent two years coaching freshmen football at Fitch High School before moving into his position with the Thunder.
    He also brings business experience having worked at First Place Bank for eight years as a Branch Manager/Loan Originator. More recently, he was as a substitute teacher in Austintown Local Schools.
    Kopp graduated from Boardman High School in 1990 where he was a two-year letterwinner for the Spartans football team. He has two brothers and two sisters. His mother, Gerry, is the Director of St. Christine’s Pre-School in Youngstown.