Graham RoxburghHead CoachEmail: graham.roxburgh@twu.ca Phone1: 604.513.2122 Company: 11th Location: Off main gym Education: BA in History, Wheaton '93 When it comes to TWU women’s soccer, Graham Roxburgh is the man behind the magic.
Since Roxburgh took over as head coach in 1999, he has guided the Spartans to three CIS National Championships (2004, 2008 and 2009), four Canada West gold medals (2004, 2006, 2009 and 2011) and a record of 140-65-38 in CIS play. His CIS National Championship team from 2004-05 was also named 2005 Sport BC Team of the Year and 2005 BC Soccer Team of the Year.
He was the CIS Coach of the Year in 2011 and the Canada West Coach of the Year in both 2009 – when his team posted an 18-21 record, won the Canada West league title, won the Canada West banner and capped the year by winning the national championship – and most recently, in 2011, after he led the Spartans to a program best 12-1-1 regular season record, which included a 15-game undefeated streak going into the CIS national championship.
Roxburgh was also twice named the head coach for Canada’s women’s soccer team at the FISU Games. In 2009, in Serbia, his team finished seventh and in 2011 in China, his team finished fifth.
Roxburgh’s teams have also been of the ground breaking variety at TWU as the 2004 CIS National Championship was the first of its kind for the university and, in their first year in the CIS, the women’s soccer team earned a Canada West silver medal, which was the first CIS medal Trinity Western had ever earned.
Roxburgh first came to Trinity Western University in 1993 as an assistant to coach Alan Alderson with the men’s soccer program. At the time he was working for Athletes in Action and had just graduated from Wheaton College (Illinois) with his BA in History and Biblical Studies. He was later recommended to take over the women’s program and was hired as head coach in 1998. The fall of 1999 marked his first season with the team, only three years after women’s soccer became a varsity sport.
In 2000, Roxburgh guided the women to a 6-3-1 finish and was named BCCAA Coach of the Year and in 2003, he was named BC Provincial Team Coach. He has coached the AIA Senior Men’s Team (which competes
in the PCSL) since 1996 and now serves as the general manager and technical director for the FV Action, an AIA club team within the PCSL.
As Director of Soccer for Athletes in Action, Roxburgh has coached and played against several national teams from around the world including Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, South Africa, Ireland, Zimbabwe, and Croatia. In the summer of 2009, he took an AIA women’s soccer team of Canadian and American university players for a two-week tour of Paraguay to build relations, and the sport of women’s soccer, in that country. | |
