Marywood University Pacers

Julie (Dougherty) Trott '12 will serve as the Marywood University head field hockey coach for the sixth year (fifth season) during the 2024 season.

She was named Assistant Director of Athletics and Recreation in the summer of 2023. Trott has been the Head Field Hockey Coach since January 2019. As Assistant Director, Trott oversees budgeting, transportation and student-athlete affairs. Additionally, she is the NFHCA Region IV Committee Chair and serves on the NFHCA All-American Committe since 2020.

In her first season at the helm, Trott and the Pacers shattered the record books. Under her leadership, the Pacers went 16-4, setting a new program record for wins in a single season.  The 2019 team also won the first Conference Championship since 1998 and qualified for the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time in program history. For their efforts, Trott and her assistants (Kaitlyn Bevans and Tori Jo Kakusian) were named the Atlantic East Conference's Coaching Staff of the Year.  Trott and her staff also produced the Atlantic East Conference Player of the Year (Lindsey Quinn) and Defensive Player of the Year (Kenzie Drew) and had 10 players in all named to All-Conference teams (six First Team, four Second Team).  

After the 2020 season was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Trott led the Pacers to a 10-10 mark in 2021 and berths into both the Atlantic East Conference and Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) post-season tournaments. She mentored three First Team and two Second Team All-AEC selections.

In the 2022 season, Trott lead the Pacers to a 3-3 conference season qualifying them for an Atlantic East Conference postseason bid. That season Trott had three First Team and two Second Team All-AEC honorees.

During the 2023 season, the Pacers advanced to their second Atlantic East Conference Championship game with Trott at the helm. Marywood finished the season with a 14-5 overall record and a 5-1 in conference record. Trott and her assistant (Kaitlyn Bevans) were named Atlantic East Conference's Coaching Staff of the Year. Also, the Pacers brought home the Atlantic East Conference Rookie of the Year and Elite 20 winner as major conference awards. Trott had four First Team All-Conference and four Second Team All-Conference selections. Trott also had two players named NFHCA Second Team All-Region.

Prior to her promotion to head coach, Trott served as assistant coach for five seasons. She was an NCAA Ethnic Minorities and Women's Internship recipient from 2016-18.

In five seasons as an assistant at Marywood, she took the Pacers to a 46-46 overall record and 20-13 (.606) conference record. Marywood made four conference semifinals and two ECAC tournament appearances under her direction.

The Pacers finished with 12-8 records – the program's best records of the 21st century – in both 2016 and 2018. Marywood enjoyed its first victories over The University of Scranton and Cabrini University in two decades under her tutelage, in addition to the program's first win over a ranked opponent.

As an assistant, Trott oversaw four National Academic Team Awards, three major conference honors, nine All-ECAC, 15 First Team all-conference, one all-region, and an ECAC Defensive Player of the Year award. Marywood had the second-highest GPA in the nation in 2015.

As an assistant coach, Trott assumed the primary contact in the recruiting process with over 30 qualified student-athletes in five seasons. She facilitated academic success through her role, and Trott was active in practice planning, fundraising initiatives, travel management, volunteer coordination, alumni engagement, social media management, among other duties.

Through her NCAA internship, Trott was active in student-athlete affairs, encouraging community service and diversity initiatives. She coordinated an effective "It's On Us" campaign to tackle sexual violence, developed NCAA Division III Week and National Student-Athlete Day programming, spearheaded an Athletics Faculty Mentor program, and led Marywood to a conference-best participation in a Polar Bear Plunge fundraiser for four-straight years to raise funds for Special Olympics New Jersey. Trott engaged in professional development conferences with attendance at the NCAA Emerging Leaders Seminary and NCAA Convention in Indianapolis.

She currently coaches at the NEPA Force Field Hockey Club (U10-U19) in Clarks Summit, Pa., and she is the head coach for the USA Field Hockey Futures team in White Mills, Pa. Trott also worked with local athletes in the Marywood ID clinics, Marywood Field Hockey Youth Camp/Clinic Series, and High School/Junior High Preseason Prep Camp.

Prior to Marywood, Trott was an Operations and Recreation Graduate Extern at Temple University's Student Faculty Center in Philadelphia from 2012 to 2014. During her graduate school studies, she interned with Philadelphia Freedom professional tennis team's event management and operations.

Trott spent four seasons with the Pacers from 2008-11, serving as captain for three years. Starting as a midfield/defender in all 65 games played, she contributed 11 goals, four assists and 26 points in her career. Trott was selected the team's MVP in 2011 and 2012. She was named to the CSAC All-Academic Team four times.

A native of Wading River, N.Y., Trott has both USA Field Hockey Level 2 and Level 1 coach accreditation. She is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA), National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA), USA Field Hockey College Coaches, and Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society.

Trott received her Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, with Level I Pennsylvania Instructional & Educational Specialist certification, in 2012. She earned her Master's in Sports Business with a concentration in Athletic Administration from Temple University in 2014. Trott currently resides in South Abington Twp., Pa. with her husband Jim and son Owen. 

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COACHING EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

MARYWOOD HIGHLIGHTS

• NCAA Division III Tournament At-Large Qualifiers (2019)
• Atlantic East Conference Champions (2019)
• Two-Time Atlantic East Coaching Staff of the Year (2019, 2023)
• NCAA Ethnic Minorities and Women's Internship recipient (2016-18)
• Five Atlantic East Major Award Winners
• Four NFHCA All-Region Recipients (1 First Team, 2 Second Team)
• 28 Atlantic East All-Conference Honorees (16 First Team, 12 Second Team)
• Five NFHCA Team Academic Awards
• NFHCA Region IV Committee Chair
• NFHCA All-American Committee (Since 2020)

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