The Dom and Karen Capers Coaching Center is the home to coaching offices and film / meeting rooms for the Mount Union football program.
A generous gift of $2-million dollars from Dom and Karen Capers made this 5,600-square foot building, that features a team meeting and film room that can be split into smaller rooms along with offices and meeting spaces for the 13-time National Champion football program.
Capers played safety and linebacker for Mount Union from 1968-71, and graduated with a degree in physical education and a minor in psychology. He also earned his master's degree in administration from Kent State. In May 2012, Capers delivered the commencement address at Mount Union and was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters.
Currently a senior defensive analyst with the Minnesota Vikings, he has been a football coach for 47 years and 34 of those years in the NFL as an assistant and the first-ever head coach of both the Carolina Panthers and Houston Texans. He was the 1996 NFL Coach of the Year, 1999 NFL Assistant Coach of the Year, coached four NFL Defensive Players of the Year and was the defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers when they won Super Bowl XLV in 2011.
Capers grew up in Buffalo, Ohio, where he was a star athlete at Meadowbrook High School. He and his wife Karen have been generous supporters of Mount Union including a lead gift in 2013 for a remodel of what is now the Dom Capers Press Box at Mount Union Stadium.
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Dom and Karen Capers
