Jamel Cooper - Football Coach - University of Louisville Athletic

Jamel Cooper

Title:
Assistant Strength Coach/Football
Email:
jamel@GoCards.com

Jamel Cooper joined the University of Louisville as an assistant strength coach for the football program in 2018.

Cooper came to Louisville from Wake Forest where he served at the senior coordinator of sports performance since 2017. He worked with all aspect of the football strength and conditioning program, including both in and off-season programming.

Prior to Wake Forest, Cooper spent two years (2015-17) working at Middle Tennessee State as the assistant strength and conditioning coach for football. Before getting into college athletics, he served as the head sports performance coach at tidewater sports performance in Newport New, Virginia.

Cooper is a two-time graduate of Georgia Southern where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in exercise science and kinesiology in 2012 and a Master of Science in coaching education in 2018. He also spent two years as a running back for the Eagles.