Marian University Women's Golf

Cope has been a member of the Marian University Department of Athletics for more than 20 years and has served in a variety of capacities. He has guided the Knights to one NAIA National Tournament as a team and guided Angela Gauck to the NAIA tournament as an individual in all four of her years at Marian University. Cope is currently the chairman of the Department of Health and Physical Education at Marian University and serves as an assistant professor. He has spent the last three years in that capacity. Cope served as director of sports information and assistant director of athletics from 2004-06. In those capacities, Cope was responsible for the media coverage of the Department of Athletics. He served as the primary media liaison for the 2003-04 NAIA Tournament Sweet Sixteen team and also assisted former director of athletics John Grimes in the day-to-day operations of Knights athletics. During his tenure as sports information director, Cope also served as the sports information director for the Mid-Central College Conference from 2000-04. He was responsible for maintaining current records, statistics, and information for the conference as well as maintaining the conference web site. Prior to his service as an administrator, Cope served as the head athletic trainer for Marian University from 1991 through 1999 when he added the sports information director title to his resume. Cope also served as the head athletic trainer at Ben Davis High School and Brownsburg High School as well as a staff athletic trainer at The Center for Hip and Knee Surgery. He was recently elected as secretary of the NAIA Women's Golf Coaches Association and, with this new capacity, he will serve as a member of the NAIA National Championship Tournament Committee. Cope was also selected to head up the oversight of the NAIA Ratings Comittee by the NAIA. He earned a bachelor of science degree in 1982 and master of science degree in 1984 from Indiana University-Bloomington. He resides in Brownsburg, Ind., with his wife. The couple has three grown children: Brittney, Molly and Conner. Conner is currently the punter for the MU football team, while his two daughters are graduates of MU.