Holman Copeland enters his second season as the Tribe’s cornerbacks coach.
During his first season in Williamsburg, Copeland was instrumental in developing W&M’s secondary and helped mentor two of the league’s top players in Aaron Swinton and Raeshawn Smith.
Copeland joined the Tribe’s staff after a three-year stint as an assistant at Central Connecticut State where he served as the outside linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator. During his successful stint at CCSU, Copland produced four all-conference selections.
Prior to being hired by CCSU, he worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Buffalo for two seasons (2012-13). In addition to mentoring and helping develop NFL first-round selection Khalil Mack as a linebackers assistant in 2012, he coached the secondary the following season and helped the Bulls rank second in the Mid-American Conference in both total defense and scoring defense. Buffalo also earned a bid to the Idaho Potato Bowl in 2013.
Copeland’s résumé also includes a pair of one-year stints as the secondary coach at East Stroudsburg University (2011) and the University of New Haven (2010). He produced a pair of all-conference cornerbacks during both seasons, while his unit helped ESU lead the league in interceptions during the 2011 campaign. Additionally, New Haven won the NE-10 Championship in 2010.
Copeland began his coaching career as a graduate assistant (cornerbacks) at East Stroudsburg University in 2008-09 and then spent a season as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Harry S. Truman (Levittown, Pa.) in 2009.
