Connor Loper
Assistant Coach (Wide Receivers)
HOMETOWN: Shreveport, La.
EDUCATION: B.S., LSU, 2019 (Sports Administration)
MBA, Southern, 2022
COACHING: Assistant, Lab High (La.), 2017-18
Assistant, Southern, 2019-21
Assistant, Benedict, 2022-23
Assistant, South Carolina State, 2024-25
Assistant, Hampton, 2026-present
Connor Loper comes to Hampton after two seasons at South Carolina State. With the Bulldogs, Loper coached the team’s tight ends and will work with Hampton’s tight ends in his new position.
Loper is a seven-time champion position coach (one national championship, two state championships and four conference championships).
He comes to Hampton from South Carolina State where he served as tight ends coach. Loper is fresh off a 2025 MEAC Championship and HBCU National Championship, winning the Celebration Bowl over Prairie View A&M. During the 2025 season, South Carolina State finished seventh in the nation in passing, 12th in third down conversion percentage. Starting tight end Cyrus Ellison earned second-team all-conference recognition and lead the league in receiving yards for a tight end on the season.
Loper played a major role in the success of South Carolina Statae’s 2024 MEAC Championship team that was ranked No.-18 in the FCS Poll in the final regular season poll. Keshawn Toney led all MEAC tight ends in receiving yards and earned first-team All-MEAC honors. Toney also received an NFL Mini Camp invitation to the Cleveland Browns in the Spring of 2025.
Prior to his stint at South Carolina State, Loper spent two ultra-successful seasons at Benedict as wide receivers coach/passing game coordinator. He also served as the director of football operations. In 2023, Benedict won its second consecutive SIAC Championship with a 47-10 win over Albany State. Benedict went 11-0 in the regular season and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division II Playoffs. Benedict boasted the top scoring offense in the SIAC (39.7 ppg). In 2023, Nicholas Sowell, Reginald Harden, Jalen Jones (twice) and Caden High (twice) posted 100+ yard games with Harden, Sowell and High having 150+ yard individual games in 2023.
In 2022, Benedict went 11-0 in the regular season, winning the SIAC Championship Game 58-21 vs. Tuskegee. The Tigers received a No.-1 regional ranking, earning a first-round bye in the NCAA Division II Playoffs. Benedict led the SIAC in total offense (4,686 yards), scoring offense (34.6 PPG), touchdowns (58) and passing yards (2,767).
Loper coached at Southern from 2019-21 where he served as assistant wide receivers coach. In 2019, Southern won the SWAC West Division. In the 2021 Spring Season, Southern went 4-1 and finished ranked in the Top 25 of FCS.
Loper is a 2019 graduate of LSU earning a bachelor’s degree in Sport Administration with a minor in business. He served as a student worker for the football team and interned with Player Personnel.
In 2017 and 2018, Loper coached the Inside Receivers at University Lab High School on LSU’s campus, where they celebrated a 26-0 record and two State Championships during that time span. “U-High” finished as the 13th ranked High School Football team in the Nation in 2018, and the No. 1 overall team in Louisiana, regardless of class, in 2017.
Connor Loper is a native of Shreveport, La. He played wide receiver and tight end at Loyola College Prep High School, and started coaching there immediately after he graduated, assisting with the offense during the 2015 and 2016 off-seasons.
