Trevor Cipriano

Trevor Cipriano begins his eighth season with the Chaparrals in 2023 and serves as an associate head coach. He is the program's defensive coordinator and defensive line coach. He has coached wide receivers, tight ends and H-backs since coming on board in 2015.

He also serves as the program’s director of player personnel. His core duties include playing a lead role in the program’s recruiting. Efforts center on bringing qualified student-athletes into the program and finding current Chaparrals a four-year college home after their time at COD.

Early on in his career at DuPage, Cipriano also spent three years as a contracted personnel analyst for the Cleveland Browns working on their NFL Draft preparations and was a scouting intern for the Oakland Raiders in 2014. For three years, he founded and presided over Your Level Scouting, a college football recruiting consulting business.

Cipriano spent portions of four years at Northern Illinois (2010-2014), beginning as a graduate student working in the Huskies’ NCAA compliance office while earning his master’s degree in sport management in 2011. After a brief period working in arena football and as a recruiting consultant, Cipriano returned to NIU where he ran the day-to-day recruiting operations of the Huskies football team as its assistant director of football operations/recruiting.

A graduate of Cornell College (Iowa), he played four years of football and as a senior was honored with the National Football Foundation’s Hampshire Honor Society Award. Cipriano attended Wheaton North High School and played for former Chaparrals head coach, Matt Foster.

Cipriano resides in Batavia with wife Katie and their daughter, Quinlee (3) and infant son, Maverick.