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Steve Mohr
| Title: | Head Football Coach |
| City: | San Antonio |
| State: | TX |
| Phone: | 210-999-8285 |
| Email: | smohr@trinity.edu |
Steve Mohr, the most successful football coach in Trinity history. He has been at the the Tigers helm since 1990.
Coach Mohr took the Tigers to the 2002 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the NCAA Division III National Championship game, in Salem, Va. The Tigers have also played in the national semifinals three times (1998, 1999, and 2002).
His Trinity teams have captured 15 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships, and advanced to the NCAA playoffs 12 times since 1994. He led the 2011 Tiger team to a 10-0 regular season record.
Over the past 21 years, Coach Mohr’s squads have posted a record of 170-60. Coach Mohr’s teams have a winning percentage of .731. Among active Division III coaches (through 2010), Coach Mohr is ranked 10th in victories and 22nd in winning percentage. He is the 29th-winningest all-time Division III coach in percentage, and tied for 25th in victories.
Under Coach Mohr’s leadership, the Tigers have produced a 164-36 record over the past 18 seasons, for a winning percentage of .820. In the SCAC, the Tigers have amassed a record of 88-23 (.793) since 1990.
Respected by his peers, Coach Mohr has been named the SCAC Coach of the Year on 11 occasions, with the most coming this past season. In 2011, he received his fifth GTE Regional Coach of the Year award, as selected by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA).
Coach Mohr has been named Division III National Coach of the Year by three organizations, including the Football Gazette in 2002. He was selected as the 1998 Division III National Coach of the Year by the American Football Gazette, as well as by CBSsportsline.com.
Twenty-five players have earned All-America honors under Coach Mohr’s tutelage. He has also coached a National Player of the Year, along with 15 SCAC Offensive, Defensive, Special Teams Players of the Year, and Newcomer of the Year.
Trinity also garnered national attention in 2007, executing a 15-lateral play - the "Trinity Miracle Play” - to beat Millsaps College and earn the Pontiac Game Changing Performance of the Year award. The award earned the school over $100,000 towards the general scholarship fund, and also secured an ESPY Award nomination for the Tigers from ESPN.
Prior to joining the Trinity staff in 1990, Coach Mohr was an assistant varsity football and head junior varsity baseball coach at Ithaca College in New York, from 1985-1989. The Bombers reached the Division III football semifinals three times and won the national title in 1988. Ithaca was national runner-up in 1985.
Coach Mohr served as an assistant varsity football coach and head baseball coach at the University of Findlay in Ohio, from 1976-1984. Findlay captured the NAIA Division II football title in 1979 and was runner-up in 1978.
He earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education from Denison University (Ohio) in 1976, and a master's in education from Bowling Green State University (Ohio) in 1977. As a student-athlete at Denison, Coach Mohr lettered in baseball, basketball, football, and golf.
Coach Mohr and his wife, Jill, reside in San Antonio with their daughter, Molly.
Recruiting Areas:
In Texas - West Houston (Waller ISD, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Royal ISD, Katy ISD, Alief ISD, Fort Bend ISD, Lamar Consolidated ISD, Sugar Land), Fort Worth, North Richland Hills, Grand Prairie, Bedford and Euless. San Antonio – North (Northeast ISD, Alamo Heights).
Out of State - Oklahoma, Ohio, South Florida, Northeast

