Bio

Michael Thompson begins his first year as an assistant coach with Co-Lin Wolf Pack Football working with receivers.

Thompson comes to Co-Lin after serving as the wide receivers coach at Southern Arkansas University from February 2022-2023.

The New Orleans native played high school football at Frisco Centennial High School. Thompson played four years of collegiate football beginning with one year at Trinity Valley Community College and then three years at Louisiana College at wide receiver and tight end from 2010-2012. Upon completion of his collegiate playing career, Thompson then played professional indoor football with the East Texas Timber Rattlers in 2015 and the East Texas Punch in 2016.

Thompson graduated from Louisiana College with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology in 2014 then earned his master’s degree in special education from Grand Canyon University in 2019. Thompson began his coaching career in 2014 at Peabody Magnet High School in Alexandria, Louisiana where he coached receivers. He then moved to Northside High School in Lafayette, Louisiana in 2016 then to Edna Karr High School in New Orleans from 2017-2022 serving as receivers coach for both schools. Thompson had a multitude of players sign offers to play at various levels of collegiate football throughout his high school coaching career.