Jack Trosper - Women's Basketball Coach

Jack Trosper

Title:
Assistant Head Coach
Email:
jack.trosper@usm.edu
Phone:
266-6444

Jack Trosper was named Assistant Head Coach for the Lady Eagles on July 22, 2019.

The 2022-23 squad topped all previous years' wins totals with Trosper on staff. The Lady Eagles nabbed a share of the Sun Belt Regular Season Title with a 13-5 SBC record, the first title since 1993-94 and fourth in school history. Southern Miss 13-5 SBC record is tied for the most wins in conference play and the program set a record for most conference road wins with seven. The captain of the front court, Trosper oversaw the Lady Eagles' four and five with Melyia Grayson and Femi Funeus enjoying career years in the paint.

Trosper's third season saw the Lady Eagles finished with their best win percentage since the 2016-17 season, as the team finished 18-12 on the year, reaching the Conference USA tournament quarterfinals. Transfer Domonique Davis took home Conference USA Newcomer of the Year honors and First-Team All-Conference, while Melyia Grayson took home Honorable Mention All-Conference honors.

Trosper's second season saw Hattiesburg's own Melyia Grayson take home Conference USA Freshman of the Year honors and be named to the All-Freshman team.

In the 2019-20 season, Trosper's first with the Lady Eagles, he helped coach the team to a 15-15 season. Shonte Hailes earned a preseason honor and fellow senior Respect Leaphart picked up a postseason accolade. Both would also score their 1,000th career points during the season. The team made it to the Conference USA tournament once again, but fell in an overtime battle with Marshall. Trosper and his fellow coaches had one of the most successful recruiting classes ever for Southern Miss, bringing in seven players that all had seen or won a championship game.

For the 2018-19 season, Trosper served as the head women's basketball coach at Wabash Valley College and led his Warriors to a 32-1 finish. At one point during the season, the team was ranked No. 1 in all of the NJCAA for the first time in school history. The Warriors went 18-0 in conference play, being named the Great Rivers Athletic Conference Regular Season Champion. He and his team went into the NJCAA Championships as the No. 1 seed, and made it through to the quarterfinals where they lost to the eventual-runner up, New Mexico. He also coached sophomore guard Alexis Thomas and freshman guard Keya Patton to earn All-American accolades at the end of the season, bringing his all-time total to three. Trosper earned himself some accolades as well, being named the 2019 GRAC, District P and IBCA Coach of the Year.

Trosper was an assistant under former head coach Luke Scheidecker for the 2017-18 season and helped lead the Lady Warriors to a 30-3 record.

Previously to Wabash Valley, Trosper was the head coach at Southeastern Illinois College for three seasons. Coach Trosper turned around a women's program with a previous three-year record of 16-71 into a record of 55-37 with a second place finish in the Great Rivers Athletic Conference. In his third season, they were fortunate to finish 26-6 and be recognized in the NJCAA Top 25 rankings for the first time in 10 years at SIC. They also competed in the District P Championship, falling short to No. 13 Wabash Valley 67-69. Trosper has coached three Freshmen of the Year, one Player of the Year, one All-American and several All-Conference and All-Region selections. He was named the Region 24 and GRAC Coach of the Year in 2017.

Some of Coach Trosper's previous work experience includes being the men's assistant at Southeastern Illinois College, men's assistant at Eastern New Mexico University and boys' varsity assistant at Madisonville High School in Texas.

Coach Trosper attended Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi and received a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology in 2010. While at TAMUCC, he was also a student assistant for the men's basketball program that won the 2007 Southland Conference Regular Season and Tournament Championships. TAMUCC also competed in the NCAA Tournament against the No. 2 seeded Wisconsin, which has been the only national tournament appearance in school history to date.