John Troxell

John Troxell
Sport(s) Football
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Franklin & Marshall
Conference Centennial Conference
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2006–2015 Franklin & Marshall
Head coaching record
Overall 54–50 (.519)

Statistics

John Troxell is an American football coach in the United States.

Coaching career

Named the 39th coach in Franklin & Marshall football history on March 22, 2006, John Troxell completed his 10th year on the sidelines as the leader of the Diplomats football program this fall. Troxell has amassed 54 victories throughout his time in Lancaster, placing him fourth on the all-time wins list.

Troxell has guided F&M to winning seasons in six of the last seven years and four ECAC bowl game appearances. The Diplomats posted a 7-4 mark in 2013 and defeated Delaware Valley in the ECAC Southeast Bowl, while Troxell led the squad to back-to-back ECAC bowl games and winning seasons in 2009 and 2010, marking the first consecutive winning seasons at F&M since 1995 and 1996.

Under his guidance, F&M athletes have produced record-breaking performances during Troxell’s tenure. Several Centennial Conference (CC) marks have fallen from quarterbacks John Harrison (first in completed passes with 856, touchdown passes with 87 and most games gaining 400+ yards with three) and E.J. Schneider (first in most games gaining 300+ yards with 14 and most yards in a season with 3,379). Also finding their names at the top of many CC lists are receiver Jordan Zackey, who is first in the CC in career receptions by a receiver (262) and tailback John Kashak, who is first in career catches by a running back (143) and receiving yards (1,1227). On the defensive side of the ball, C.T. Marsh, set the CC career sack record.

F&M records have also been reset during Troxell’s time on the sidelines with Harrison placing first in completions, touchdown passes, completion percentage and passing yards, while Zackery is first in receptions and all-purpose yards.

In 2009, Troxell guided the Diplomats to a 9-2 season that was capped by an ECAC South Atlantic Championship victory. Troxell was named the Centennial Conference's Coach of the Year and was one of five national finalists for the highly coveted Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award. The 9-2 season marked the Diplomats best campaign since 1996.

Troxell took the reins of the Diplomats following five seasons (2001–05) as an assistant coach at Lafayette during which he served as video coordinator, running backs coach, recruiting coordinator and special teams coach for the 2004 and 2005 Patriot League champion Leopards.

During his tenure, he mentored 2004 Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year Joe McCourt '05 to a record-setting career. Under Troxell's tutelage, McCourt, the 2001 Patriot League Rookie of the Year, concluded his career as Lafayette's and the Patriot League's all-time leader with 50 rushing touchdowns, and second on the school's all-time rushing list with 4,474 yards while earning All-America honors in 2002 and 2004.

Named the Leopards' recruiting coordinator prior to the 2003 season, Troxell landed 24 freshmen for the 2005 season, including 10 who were all-state players, He joined the Lafayette staff after serving as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Muhlenberg College from 1997-2000.

He served as special teams coordinator (1997–99), quarterbacks and wide receivers coach (1997-2000) and offensive coordinator (2000) at Muhlenberg as the Mules went from a 1-9 season in 1997 to the Eastern College Athletic Conference title with a record of 9-2 in 2000.

In 2000, his offense ranked 22nd in Division III and led the Centennial Conference in total offense (427.8 yards per game) while averaging 31.0 points per game.

In his first three seasons at Muhlenberg, Troxell coordinated the Mules' special teams. Under his guidance, Muhlenberg led Division III in kickoff returns. Josh Carter, Lafayette's offensive assistant in 2004, was the Football Gazette specialist of the year under Troxell's tutelage. He also coached the quarterbacks and receivers all four seasons, including Muhlenberg's all-time leading passer and Carter, the program's first Centennial Conference player of the year.

Troxell joined the Muhlenberg staff after serving as an assistant coach for three seasons at Columbia University. He assisted with the Lions' defensive backs from 1994–96, helping them record the third-best pass defense in Division I-AA in 1996.

The assistant recruiting coordinator his final two seasons at Columbia, he was elevated to running backs coach in the spring of 1997.

A 1994 Lafayette graduate with a B.A. in government and law, Troxell was the starting free safety on the Leopards' 1992 Patriot League championship team and received the program's Unsung Hero Award as a senior. He went on to earn an M.A. in sociology and education from Columbia in 1997.

A native of Phillipsburg, N.J.

Troxell's coaching highlights

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