Our Vision

Troy Football is a family of Warriors who conquer adversity, play relentless, impassioned, and fearless football while being change agents in their families, businesses, and communities they serve.

We desire, first and foremost, to create a family. At Troy, we are presented with the unique opportunity to form life-long relationships with student-athletes from several different cities throughout Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Los Angeles County. As such, we will indoctrinate them into the Way of the Warrior. We firmly believe in creating a team that leans into trial and tribulation, for we understand it makes us stronger. The end goal is to have a team completely sold out on not making excuses. Moreover, this mindset will be palpable on the field. As Warriors, we will play the beautiful game of football with an unparalleled discipline and tenacity and it is our desire that our opponents walk off the field knowing they were, from start to finish, in a dog-fight. Finally, we will equip our athletes with elite behavior skills and leadership skills, so they can be agents of change in their spheres of influence. Bruce Brown, founder of Proactive Coaching, states, “One athlete of character improves your team. One team of character changes your school. One school of character impacts your community.” We want to have a team full of young men seeking to do the right thing regardless of circumstances; this attitude will allow us to impact our school and ultimately our community. We will relentlessly pursue this vision and we will always:

Our Mission

We exist to submit ourselves to the greater good of our team, our legacy, and our community while refining character, maximizing talent, and creating a culture of family.

We desire for all stakeholders to be swept away in something larger than themselves. We truly believe great things are not accomplished by individuals but by several people binding together towards a common goal. The goal is for everyone involved in the organization to think about our team, legacy, and community before their personal desires. Submission to our legacy is rooted in our desire to uphold the Troy Football program’s history. Submitting to our community is rooted in our hope that the community of Fullerton will be proud of our on-field play and off-the-field behavior as it resembles the excellence of our city.

One of our goals is to lead our players through a journey of character refinement. Football, by its very nature, is a sport filled with affliction. Football requires great determination and focus even when one is physically exhausted, and we hope to guide players towards continually doing the right thing no matter the external circumstances. We also believe that maximizing talent is one of our main priorities. As an entity, one of our criteria for how we define success will be based on how close we are able to get our players to perform at their very best. Finally, we believe in creating a culture of family. As stated before, being a part of something bigger than oneself is powerful. We do not seek to replace the family unit; however, we will enforce values that exist in a healthy family environment: sacrifice, sincerity, friendliness, submission, and love. When we bind together and work towards common goals, we will have a lasting impact beyond the four years student-athletes spend in our football program.

Core Values

Resilience

This is the centerpiece of our value system as it is the defining attribute of a warrior. If a player is not ready to endure adversity, then there is no place in the program for them. During trial and tribulation, battles take place in the recesses of the mind, and we must fight to preserve the will to compete at all times. Once we have fought through the trial—if we’ve given it our all—we will be a better person as a result. Resiliency is the choice to never quit. It is the mindset to continue to push through pain; to get back up after failure; and fight until there is nothing left—and then fight some more. 

Integrity

One way to help us maintain our focus on our program goals is to practice and teach integrity. Integrity means doing the right thing regardless of circumstances, and we want to teach this invaluable life-lesson to our athletes. If we can convince them of the truth that the genesis of success is what you are doing when no one is looking, then we will have a football team that is seeking to do the right thing in all areas of their life. This will force our athletes to deal with some unpleasant conflict in their lives; however, when they recognize that they have several others around them seeking to do the same, building character will become a bit easier. 

Sacrifice

Being aware of others is a skill that must be developed on our team. When we are able to think of the team before we think of ourselves, it frees us up to achieve amazing things. We must avoid the trap of thinking about what the team can provide for individual gain and train our minds to think about what the team will gain when we give our best efforts. When we sacrifice for our team, amazing things will take place. Achieving a fierce competitive edge is done through superior preparation and a greater willingness to sacrifice for one’s team.

Excellence

The Latin root word for excellence is excellentum, which means “towering, distinguished, and superior.” We cannot control whether or not we will be athletically superior or even if we will physically tower over our opponents; however, we can control whether or not we are distinguished. We want opponents to look at the way we do things and recognize that we are different from your average football team. The devil is in the details, and the little things in our program will be perfected. We will have distinct warm-ups, straight lines, unparalleled appearance, exceptional technique, and unique schemes. We will expect the absolute best from every stakeholder in the program. We will push each other to be the absolute best possible version of ourselves, so that we might maximize our God-given abilities. Everything we do will be approached with an attitude of perfection. We are not concerned with merely doing; we want to do things correctly. We want to be authentic relationships, practice integrity, sacrifice; we want to have purpose; we want to embody excellence. In doing so, we will gain supremacy amongst our opponents, and we will tower over our competition.