HEBRON, Ky. — Longtime Conner High School football coach and teacher Dave Trosper has passed away. He was 55.
According to LINK nky, Trosper died due to a heart attack Saturday afternoon.
“So sad. Our Coaches Association was all just together 2 nights ago for the all-star game,” Covington Catholic football coach Eddie Eviston said. “God bless his family and Conner community.”
Trosper, a 1988 Boone County graduate, was selected two times as All-Conference in the Mid-South while playing football for Union College and was voted Most Valuable Player by his teammates twice.
Trosper is named in the record book at Union for most tackles in a single game with 19.
Trosper was inducted into the Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.
Trosper began coaching Conner’s football program in 2007 and was the longest-tenured football coach in Northern Kentucky.