Since Graham Roxburgh took over as head coach in 1999, he has guided the Spartans to five U SPORTS national championships (2004, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2013) and eight Canada West gold medals (2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018).
Since 2003, Roxburgh has led TWU to the Canada West Final Four every year and, from 2010 to 2018, the Spartans appeared in the Canada West championship match in eight consecutive seasons.
Roxburgh was the U SPORTS Coach of the Year in 2011 and has been named the Canada West Coach of the Year five times, including in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2019.
Roxburgh has twice been the head coach for Canada’s women’s soccer team at the Summer Universiade, including 2009, in Serbia, where his team finished seventh, and in 2011 in China, where his team finished fifth.
Roxburgh’s teams have also been ground-breaking at TWU, as the team’s 2004 national championship was the first of its kind for the University. That year, the women’s soccer team was also named Sport BC Team of the Year and the BC Soccer Team of the Year. Prior to that, in the women’s soccer team’s first year at the U SPORTS level in 2001, the Spartans earned a Canada West silver medal, which was the first conference 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 with Athletes in Action and had just graduated from Wheaton College (Illinois) with a 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, which was only three years after women’s soccer became a varsity sport at TWU.
In 2000, Roxburgh guided the women to a 6-3-1 record and was named BCCAA Coach of the Year.
Roxburgh currently serves as the general manager and technical director for the Fraser Valley Action within the PCSL. He also operates the Spartan Soccer Academy, which is a player development academy for young female players.
Roxburgh is also the director of TeamUp, which works to "partner, collaborate and come alongside local organizations, and use sports either as a catalyst for the beginning of sustainable impact, or a component of a long-term community development strategy."
