Kip Erik Crofts

Summary

Kip Crofts was a high school football coach in Caldwell, Idaho for many years as well as a college football player for Boise State University.

Crofts was a Mormon bishopric counselor twice from 2014 to 2019, according to a source familiar with Crofts. He went on a Mormon mission in the 1980s, according to a person familiar with the case.

In June 2025, Crofts was arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a teenager.

Crofts was a high school football coach and physical education (PE) teacher for 32 years in Idaho:

• 1992 to 2007: unknown; we’re still gathering info
• 2007: Head coach at Meridian High School
• 2013 to 2015: Assistant coach at Bishop Kelly High School (a Catholic school) in Boise
• 2016 to 2021: Head coach at Payette High School – students allegedly protested against Croft’s employment
• 2023 to 2025: Coach at Caldwell High School

Crofts may have been placed on leave from Caldwell before his arrest. Floodlit is seeking more info.

Floodlit’s team saw comments posted on a TikTok video about the arrest and charges.

Multiple commenters said Crofts was their high school football coach and suggested that he was passed from school to school in quick succession – a public school phenomenon commonly referred to as “passing the trash.”

One commenter said they knew Crofts through the LDS church when the commenter was growing up.

Another said the local school board knew for years about multiple reports of inappropriate behavior by Crofts but “turned a blind eye.”

Another commenter said they participated in a walkout protest by students at Payette High School in Payette, Idaho after Crofts allegedly “picked up a student and pinned him against the wall.”

Another commenter said, “He shoved a kid against a wall for ‘disrespecting him.’ Kid got expelled, and school did nothing against Kroft!! Same week a girl stepped forward saying he touched her!!”

The Payette protest took place in 2021, according to another person who commented on a Facebook post about Crofts’s arrest and charges.

On Facebook, a woman said Crofts threw water on her 2011 when she wore a white T-shirt while in a high school gym class.

A Nampa, Idaho police department press release said:

“*** Press Release ***
Middleton Man Arrested on Sexual Abuse of a Minor Warrant

In January 2025, the Caldwell Police Department asked the Nampa Police Department to handle a possible child sexual abuse case involving Kip E. Crofts, who had been a teacher with the Caldwell School District at the time of the incident. After a thorough investigation, a warrant was issued charging Crofts with sexual abuse of a minor under 16 years of age. Crofts was arrested on June 25th, without incident, by Nampa Police Officers when he arrived at his current job with the City of Nampa as a custodian at the Nampa Development Services office in the 500 block of 12th Ave S. Crofts had been a Nampa employee since April 2025. Due to the confidential nature of an investigation, the City of Nampa’s human resources department was unaware that this individual was being investigated. In the pre-hire background process, he had no disqualifying convictions at that time.

There is concern that there may be other victims of Mr. Croft. If you have information about a possible crime, please contact the agency with jurisdiction over the location where it occurred.”

We’ll continue to gather information and update our case report.

Croft’s brother Kole Crofts, a former Boise police officer, went on an LDS mission to Taiwan. Kole Crofts died in 2021.

If you have information about Crofts’s history in the Mormon church, please contact us.