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Jamon Copeland enters his third season as an assistant coach and is in his first season as the recruiting coordinator at Texas State.
Last season, Copeland helped the Bobcats sign three of the state's Top 40 high school players and contend for a berth into the Southland Conference postseason tournament. Texas State also improved its win total for the second straight year.
As a member of the staff in 2006-07, Copeland helped recruit an impressive signing class as the Bobcats inked four of the state's top 40 prep players as well as one of the all-time leading three-point shooters from the junior college ranks. Texas State also tripled its win total from the previous year that season.
Copeland joined the Texas State staff from Trinity Valley Community College where he was an assistant coach for both the men's and women's programs.
On the men's side, Copeland worked for Hall of Fame coach Leon Spencer, who has the most all-time wins (809) in Texas junior college history. On the women's side he worked for the nationally-ranked and five-time NJCAA National Champion women's team who were Region XIV champions and advanced to the NJCAA National Tournament that year. At Trinity Valley, Copeland had a wide range of responsibilities from on-floor coaching and game preparation to recruiting potential student-athletes for both teams.
Copeland has also coached on the high school level, serving as an assistant coach on the Keller Central High School staff during the 2004-05 academic year.
As an undergraduate student, Copeland served as a player/coach at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. He received his Bachelor's of Arts Degree in History from Franciscan University in 2004. The Coppell native began his collegiate career at Midwestern State University where he was a member of the school's Lone Star Conference championship team as a freshman. He earned his associate's degree while playing one season at North Lake College in Irving.
In addition to his basketball coaching experience, Copeland spent one year as a strength and conditioning coach in the Austrian Professional Football League with the Amstetten Thunderbolts in 2003.
Copeland was an all-district and academic all-state member of Coppell's prep team, which was a Class 4A state semifinalist and Class 4A Region II champions.
He and his wife, Jessica, were married on October 25, 2008.
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