Jeff Laping was born and continues to live in Winnipeg with his wife and three children. Jeff graduated from St. Paul’s High School in the class of 1989. He attended the University of Manitoba earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1993 and a bachelor of Education in 1995. He began working at St. Paul’s High School as a teacher of English Language Arts in January 1999. He has been involved in the basketball program at St. Paul’s since arriving back at the school as a student teacher in 1995. He coached the JV boys team for three seasons and has coached the Varsity boys since 2000.
Jeff has been involved with Basketball Manitoba in a number of capacities since 2002. He was an assistant with the male 17U team in 2002 and 2003; he coached the male 16U team in 2004, and was manager of the 2005 and 2009 male Canada Games team. Jeff has worked with the Centre for performance since 2004 as a coach, and has worked with the Manitoba Basketball Coaches Association since 2003, serving as its President until 2013.