High School / Personal: A 2010 graduate of Louis D. Brandies High School, Copeland attended the Naval Academy Prep School during the 2010-11 academic year ... earned three letters in football and one in track & field ... a first-team All-State (Texas), all-area and all-city selection his senior year ... selected as the team's MVP his senior year ... also voted by his peers to serve as team captain of the football team his senior season ... picked up first-team all-area honors as a junior, as well first-team all-district mention ... member of the National Honor Society ... son of Frederick Sr. and Catherine Copeland.