Head Coach: Patrick Gilliam 

Email: pgilliam@tiu.edu

Phone: 847.317.7094

Patrick Gilliam has served as both the Head Men's and Women's Soccer Coach at Trinity International University since 1996. He has coached the men's team from 1996-2000 and again for the last two seasons (2008-2009).  He has led the women for the last thirteen campaigns (1997-2009). Gilliam has guided the men's team to the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) national tournament in both 2000 and 2008.  As women's soccer coach, Gilliam's teams have posted impressive numbers, having won three CCAC regular season and three conference tournament championships. In addition, the Lady Trojans earned berths to nine consecutive national championship tournaments (NCCAA in 1998 and 2002-2006, & NAIA from 1999-2001). In both the 1998 and 2004 seasons, his Lady Trojan squads were crowned NCCAA National Champions.

Prior to coaching at Trinity, he was an English teacher and boys' and girls' varsity soccer coach at Aurora Christian High School from 1991 until 1996.

Gilliam is a 1991 graduate of Judson College, where he was a physical education/ secondary education major and an English minor. He was a four-year member of the Judson men's soccer team, earning all-conference honors as a junior, and playing on two NCCAA National Tournament qualifiers.

Gilliam was born and reared in St. Louis, Missouri, and he presently resides in Wheeling, Illinois with his wife  [Holly] and their two children [Ian-15, and Emma-11]. He is also working toward a Master's Degree in Religion from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.