{"id":515,"date":"2021-07-15T15:55:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tiu.edu\/news\/?post_type=news&#038;p=515"},"modified":"2021-07-15T16:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T21:32:21","slug":"willie-tillman-named-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiu.edu\/news\/willie-tillman-named-head-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Tillman Named Head Football Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Introducing Willie Tillman: Head Football Coach\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zG1obCZmF8k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Athletic Director Heather Logue announced July 15 that <a href=\"https:\/\/tiutrojans.com\/staff-directory\/willie-tillman\/344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Willie Tillman<\/a> has been named head football coach at Trinity International University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We anticipate a great fall 2021 season of athletic competition and camaraderie,&#8221; Logue said. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited to have Coach Tillman as our head football coach.\u00a0 He is a man who seeks the Lord, an experienced leader who knows how to build into the lives of young men, and has a tremendous knowledge of the game. We are blessed to be able to call him our head coach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Logue also said that coaches will be reaching out to the players and recruits to answer any questions about the transition. &#8220;We not only have their athletic development but also their spiritual and academic growth as our utmost concern, which Tillman will ensure takes place,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Tillman brings 20 years of college coaching experience. An accomplished recruiter who has coordinated recruiting efforts for four different staffs, Tillman found success at the Division I level with additional experience ranging from assisting the 2003 AFC North Champion Baltimore Ravens to helping direct a successful startup program at Florida Tech.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>&#8220;I want to see the community witness the Trojan football team giving God all the glory.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Tillman kicked off his coaching career at his alma-mater, Purdue University, as an assistant in 1997, where he was four-year letter winner and two year starter as a wide receiver. Since then, he has coached at multiple colleges and universities, including most recently a two-year stint at Lakewood High School (Fla.) as associate head coach, offensive coordinator, and quarterbacks coach. Under his leadership, Lakewood went 12-1 into the 4A state semi finals, where the team averaged 34 points per game that season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to help these young men get an education and grow in their faith while they\u2019re playing football,&#8221; Tillman said. &#8220;Coaching in a Christian school earlier in my career brought me closer to Christ, and ever since then I&#8217;ve wanted to continue to coach in such a way that others are also challenged to grow in their faith, regardless if I was at a faith-based institution.&#8221; Tillman values patience and fortitude on the field, &#8220;because things aren&#8217;t going to happen overnight, and just as our faith is tested, so too will the team be tested,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also love to glorify God and praise him,&#8221; Tillman said. &#8220;People love to see each other celebrating. And I want to see the community witness the Trojan football team giving God all the glory.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Athletic Director Heather Logue announced July 15 that Willie Tillman has been named head football coach at Trinity International University. &#8220;We anticipate a great fall 2021 season of athletic competition and camaraderie,&#8221; Logue said. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited to have Coach Tillman as our head football coach.\u00a0 He is a man who seeks the Lord, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Willie Tillman Named Head Football Coach - TIU Newsroom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiu.edu\/news\/willie-tillman-named-head-football-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Willie Tillman Named Head Football Coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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