Jess Loepp Position: Director of High School Relations

FIRST YEAR

Jess Loepp returns to The University of Tulsa for his third stint with the Golden Hurricane. Loepp will serve as the Director of High School Relations.

Last year, Loepp served as assistant football coach and strength coordinator at Lake Travis High School in Texas. He helped lead that team to the Class 4A Division I State Championship, a 16-0 record and a top-10 ranking in most national prep polls, with the highest being third nationally.

In 2007, Loepp coached the Hurricane safeties and also served as Tulsa's recruiting coordinator. He helped Tulsa post a 10-4 record, reach the Conference USA Championship game and win the GMAC Bowl.

The year before, Loepp was an assistant coach at Rice University in 2006, where he coached the Owls safeties and served as recruiting coordinator. At Rice, he helped coach a team that made a bowl game appearance for the first time in 45 years.

Loepp first came to Tulsa in 2003, where served under Graham as defensive graduate assistant coach for three years. He was a part of Tulsa's C-USA Championship team in 2005 as well as two bowl game appearances, including the 2003 Humanitarian Bowl and 2005 AutoZone Liberty Bowl.

Before coming to Tulsa for his first stint, Loepp held his first coaching position at the Oklahoma Bible Academy in Enid as a volunteer assistant coach. He coached the linebackers and receivers.

Loepp, 31, attended the University of Central Oklahoma and was an all-Lone Star Conference performer at linebacker. He helped UCO win league titles in 1998 and '99. He earned his bachelor's degree at UCO in 2000 and completed his graduate work at Tulsa in 2005.

He and his wife, Kelly Lynn, were married in June 2008.