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.
Pete Kishline
Defensive Coordinator
Coach Kishline has served as Defensive Line Coach at his alma matar, Arrowhead High School, since 2004. During that time Arrowhead has amassed a stunning 53-10 record, and a Division 1 State Championship in 2007. Among various other records, Arrowhead has a county best 27 -game winning streak, three straight State championship appearances, and has earned ESPN and MaxPreps National High School rankings of #26 and #25 respectively.
In 2008, Peter took over as co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach for the Milwaukee Bonecrushers of the CIFL for the final seven games of their inaugural season. Kishline was on -hand for their stunning 51-46 victory in Muskegon, over playoff bound Thunder.
As a collegiate athlete, Coach Kishline Played defensive line for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater from 1998-2002, earning four varsity letters, and holding several strength and conditioning records.
Coach Kishline also won a state championship at Arrowhead High School going 14-0 while playing for head coach Tom Taraska in 1996.
Peter previously contributed to the Wisconsin Wolfpack as defensive line coach with the outdoor team in 2008. Kishline called the defense for the 2007 Franklin Outlaws, champions of the Ironman Football League.
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.
Chris Tessman
Offensive 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.
Scott Huenink
Running Backs Coach
Scott played high school football at Kohler High School. Following high school, he was an assistant coach at division 1, Sheboygan North High School. While at Sheboygan North, he helped lead the team to their first Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) playoff appearance in ten years.
Brent Luebke
Special Teams Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach
Luebke enters his second season with the Wolfpack, his first as a coach. He spent the 2008 season as a quarterback for the outdoor Wolfpack.
Brent was a standout collegiate athlete at Lakeland College where he is in the athletic hall of fame. He was a back-to-back all-conference performer as a quarterback for the Muskies and was also named the 2003 Illini-Badger Football Conference Outstanding Back of the Year. Brent was also a starting forward on two Muskie conference championship basketball teams.
Luebke spent the 2004 season with the Danube Dragons of the European American International Football League, where he was named the offensive player of the year. He spent part of the 2005 season as a backup quarterback with the Chicago Rush of the Arena Football League before being assigned to the Green Bay Blizzard of Arena Football 2 to finish the 2005 season.
He began his coaching career as the quarterbackâs coach and special teams coordinator at Lakeland from 2004 to 2006, where he mentored an all-conference quarterback in each season and was a part of two conference championship teams.
Coach Luebke is currently in his second year as the head coach and a special education teacher at his alma mater, Two Rivers (Wis.) High School.
Coach Luebke is currently in his second year as the head coach and a special education teacher at his alma mater, Two Rivers (Wis.) High School. |