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Chris Edwards, David, Glenn, Mike Waddell & Coach Jimmy Collins talk about North Carolina #collegefootball and #highschoolfootball This week's SportClips MVP of the Week is Elon head football coach Tony Trisciani. Follow Coach Trisciani on Twitter: @TonyTrisciani Named the 23rd head football coach at Elon University on Dec. 17, 2018, Tony Trisciani will begin his fifth season at the helm of the program in the fall of 2023. Widely familiar with the CAA Football landscape, the 2022 season marked Trisciani's 27th year as a football coach and his 17th year coaching at a CAA Football institution. Known for developing champions, Trisciani's career has featured multiple conference championships on the field while guiding his defensive units to national leaders in multiple categories and coaching numerous all-conference and All-American student-athletes. Trisciani is also a leader locally and nationally, serving on the AFCA Rules Committee and as a voter in the AFCA Coaches Poll. He also works on the coaches council for the Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation and serves on Elon Athletics’ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion subcommittee. In his second stint at Elon, the 2023 season marks Trisciani's eighth with the Phoenix overall. Formerly a defensive assistant with the program under Pete Lembo in 2006, Trisciani returned to Rhodes Stadium ahead of the 2017 season as the program's defensive coordinator before being elevated to head coach before to the 2019 campaign. Since his return to Elon, Trisciani has helped the Phoenix defeat 13 Top 25 programs while making three NCAA FCS playoff appearances. Elon advanced to the playoffs in back-to-back seasons for the first time in the program’s Division I history in 2017 and 2018 and then returned to the postseason in 2022. As a player, Trisciani was a four-year starter and two-year captain at Springfield, where he was the 1992 New England Rookie of the Year and the 1995 Springfield College Athlete of the Year and Team MVP. He earned a bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation services in 1996 and pursued a masters in health studies from Springfield from 1996-98. Trisciani and his wife, Julie, reside in Elon and are the parents of two children, Shane and Hannah. As a player, Trisciani was a four-year starter and two-year captain at Springfield, where he was the 1992 New England Rookie of the Year and the 1995 Springfield College Athlete of the Year and Team MVP. He earned a bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation services in 1996 and pursued a masters in health studies from Springfield from 1996-98. Trisciani and his wife, Julie, reside in Elon and are the parents of two children, Shane and Hannah.