Troy Trojans
Troy Trojans | |
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Riddle-Pace Field | |
Softball stadium | Troy Softball Complex |
Soccer stadium | Colley Track/Soccer Complex |
Mascot | T-Roy |
Nickname | "Trojans" |
Fight song | Trojans, One and All |
Colors | Cardinal, silver, and black[1] |
Website | www |
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The Troy Trojans are the sports teams of
in 2004, and joined that conference for all other sports in 2005. Troy University's athletics nickname was the Red Wave until the early 1970s when the student body voted to change the name to Trojans.Prior to becoming a member of NCAA Division One athletics in 1993, Troy University was a member of the Gulf South Conference of the NCAA Division II ranks. At the time, Troy's primary rivals were Jacksonville State University, Livingston University (now the University of West Alabama), and the University of North Alabama. The rivalry between Troy and Jacksonville State was arguably the fiercest of those. However, since Troy University moved to Division I-A participation in football and because Troy and JSU no longer share the same conference affiliation, this once heated rivalry has cooled significantly. Troy has Sun Belt rivalries with all East Division schools (Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, and South Alabama). Currently, the Trojans' most prominent rival in all sports is their main Sun Belt rival, South Alabama.
Sports sponsored
A member of the
Men's sports | Women's sports |
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Baseball | Basketball |
Basketball | Cross country |
Cross country | Golf |
Football | Soccer |
Golf | Softball |
Tennis | Tennis |
Track & field† | Track & field† |
Volleyball | |
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor. |
Men
Football
Troy University has fielded a football team continuously since 1946. Troy has won national championships at the NAIA level in 1968 and at the NCAA Division II level in 1984 and 1987.
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Troy University football began playing in the NCAA's Division I-A in 2001, became a football-only member of the
Chip Lindsey was hired after Neal Brown accepted the head coaching position at West Virginia in 2019. Lindsey had an overall record of 15-19 while at Troy. He was fired November 21, 2021 with one game left in the season. Defensive coordinator Brandon Hall served as interim head coach until Jon Sumrall was hired December 2, 2021.
Sumrall previously served as assistant head coach under Neal Brown from 2015-2017. During his first season as head coach Sumrall lead the Trojans 12-2. The Trojans hosted
The Trojans football team has won three national titles: 1968 (NAIA), 1984 (Div. II), and 1987 (Div. II).
Basketball
The Troy University men's basketball team is currently under the direction of head coach Scott Cross. Don Maestri is currently the winningest coach in Troy University history.
The Trojans' last NCAA Tournament appearance was in the
The Trojan basketball team is recognized in recent Division I Basketball history for leading the nation in three-pointers from 2004 to 2006, making 1068 three-pointers over the course of 89 games (11.66 per game) during those three seasons. Troy's most famous claim to fame, however, is their game against
Baseball
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The Troy University baseball team won two Division II national championships in 1986 and 1987 under the leadership of baseball coach,
In 2006, Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year
In 2007 the Trojans went 34–27, finishing in a tie for second in the
In 2011, the Trojans struck again by winning the Sun Belt regular season title and earning a bid to the Nashville Regional as a 3-seed. The Trojans defeated 2-seed
Troy once again won a regular season title in 2013, this time in a thrilling fashion. The Trojans played #18 South Alabama during the last series of the regular season. After losing the first game of the series, the Trojans went on to win the next two games and clinch a share of the Sun Belt title. They finished the regular season with a 39-16 record. Troy finished the 2013 regular season ranked #21 in the College Baseball News poll.
Golf
The Troy men's golf team has a deep history of winning championships. A three-time NCAA national champion, the Trojan men were one of the most dominant golf teams in Division II, making 19-straight appearances in the NCAA Division II Golf Championships from 1975 to 1993. In that span, they managed to win three national championships in 1976, 1977, and 1984.
Tennis
Troy's men's tennis team began to rise to prominence in the early 1990s, after finishing ranked #8 in the nation in the NCAA Division II
The team would also go on to win conference titles in 2010 and 2015 in the Sun Belt Conference.
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Track and field
Troy's track and field men's teams routinely feature some of the best athletes in the Sun Belt Conference, as well as the country. Multiple athletes have qualified for the NCAA Championships.
The team won eight Gulf South Conference titles from 1977 to 1986, with head coaches John Anderson, Charles Oliver, and Rick Stetson all being named Coach of the Year a combined eight seasons.
Cross country
The Trojans men's cross country program has been a dominant team for many years. Troy has won a total of 15 conference championships as a member of the Gulf South Conference, winning titles in 1971 and going on a streak of title runs from 1974 to 1988.
Women
Basketball
In 1997, the Troy University women's basketball team, under the direction of head coach Jerry Hester, won the Mid Continent Conference (now the Summit League) tournament championship in Buffalo, New York, and received an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament where the Trojans traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, and fell in the first round to the Virginia by a score of 96–74. Under current head coach Chanda Rigby, Troy has been to the NCAA Tournament twice and has won two Sun Belt tournament titles. In 2020, the Trojans won the Sun Belt regular season conference championship for the first time in program history.
Softball
Upon Troy University's athletics moving all sports to the NCAA's Division I in 1993, the Troy softball program was started that same year and officially began their first season in 1994 under head coach Melanie Davis. Under Davis' leadership, the program immediately became a competitive softball program, finishing their first season in Division I with a 40-13 record, including a 4-3 win over an already prominent program in Georgia Tech.
In just Troy's third season of playing softball (1996), the team managed to make history by winning their first ever conference title and receiving a bid to play in an NCAA Regional. The team finished the season with a 47-22-1 record, winning the
The Trojans are currently coached by Beth Mullins, who is in her 4th season.
Volleyball
The Troy women's volleyball team has won three conference tournament championships, one regular season championship, and two conference divisional championships in their history. In 2019, the Trojans advanced to the Second Round of the National Invitational Volleyball Championship, defeating North Carolina A&T in the first round, before falling to Georgia Tech in the second round.
Tennis
The Troy men's and women's tennis teams have a short but successful history in the sport. The women have won conference championships in the Atlantic Sun Conference and the Sun Belt Conference and received national rankings in various years. The men's team has won the 2010 and 2015 Sun Belt titles, finishing with rankings as high as #51 in the nation.
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Women's golf
Just like the men's golf team, the women's golf team has a deep of history winning as well. In the NCAA's Division II, the Troy State women's golf team was one of the strongest teams in the nation in the 1980s, winning three national championships in 1984, 1986, and 1989. Despite the shorter history of the women's team, they've established themselves as proven winners. The women have been extremely successful recently, capturing three Sun Belt Conference titles and also receiving an individual at-large NCAA Regional berth for player Fátima Fernández Cano in 2016.
Cross country
The women's cross country team was dominant while a member of the Gulf South Conference, winning the conference title five-straight years from 1982 to 1986.
Defunct programs
Rodeo
Troy University had one of the top collegiate rodeo programs in the nation during its existence. In 2007, Troy calf roper Ben Mayworth won the calf roping national championship at the National Finals College Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming. The rodeo program's home facility was the Pike County Cattlemen's Arena in Troy where it hosted a three-day rodeo each October that featured college rodeo programs from throughout the southern region of the United States.
The university discontinued its rodeo program at the end of the 2014 season.[3]
National championships
Troy has won 14 NCAA national championships across five different sports, as well as 2 NAIA national championships.
Team
- Football
- 1968 NAIA National Champions
- 1984 NCAA Division II National Champions
- 1987 NCAA Division II National Champions
- Baseball
- 1986 NCAA Division II National Champions
- 1987 NCAA Division II National Champions
- Men's Basketball
- 1993 NCAA Division II National Finalists
- Men's Golf
- 1976 NCAA Division II National Champions
- 1977 NCAA Division II National Champions
- 1978 NCAA Division II National Finalists
- 1983 NCAA Division II National Finalists
- 1984 NCAA Division II National Champions
- 1992 NCAA Division II National Finalists
- Women's Golf
- 1984 NCAA Division II National Champions
- 1986 NCAA Division II National Champions
- 1989 NCAA Division II National Champions
Individual
- Men's Golf
- 1980 NCAA Division II Individual National Champion - Paul Perini
- Men's Track & Field
- 1976 NAIA 400-meter dash National Champion - Charles Oliver
- Men's Rodeo
- 2007 College National Finals Rodeo National Champion (tie-down roping) - Ben Mayworth
Facilities
Image | Name | Sport | Seating capacity | Opened |
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Veterans Memorial Stadium | Football | 30,402 | 1950 |
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Trojan Arena | Men's basketball Women's basketball Volleyball Indoor track & field |
6,000 | 2012 |
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Riddle-Pace Field
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Baseball | 2,000 | 1931 |
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Troy Softball Complex | Softball | 800 | 2002 |
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Troy Golf Practice Facility | Men's golf Women's golf |
- | 2014 |
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Colley Track & Field/Soccer Complex | Women's soccer Outdoor track & field |
500 | 2003 |
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Jimmy Lunsford Tennis Complex | Men's tennis Women's tennis |
150 | 2001 |
References
- ^ "Trojan 2.0 Best Practices and Style Guide". Retrieved December 1, 2022.
- ^ "Troy Trojans - Head Coach Don Maestri". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
- ^ "Troy University to Discontinue Rodeo Programs".