David Svoboda has been the Trinity's men's and women's track and field head coach since 2008.

Todd Wildman captured the NCAA Division III Men’s Indoor Pentathlon National Championship in 2009 and 2010 under Svoboda's helm.

The 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships were especially a shining moment for the Tigers. In addition to Wildman’s national title, five other Trinity athletes earned All-America honors. Trinity’s men placed fifth nationally as a team. The Tigers also had an All-America recipient at the NCAA Outdoor Men’s Championships.

Coach Svoboda led the Tiger men to the SCAC Championship in 2009, and also enjoyed successful indoor and outdoor seasons at the NCAA Championships.  During his first season, Coach Svoboda had four athletes earn All-America honors, and led the indoor and outdoor men's team to a sixth-place finish nationally.  The Tiger women's indoor team also finished in the top 25. Coach Svoboda was named SCAC Men’s Track and Field Coach of the Year.

He previously was an associate head coach at the University of Chicago. Coach Svoboda became an associate head track and field coach and assistant professor in physical education for the Maroons in 2006. He coached student-athletes in the sprints, jumps, hurdles and combined events, as well as having recruiting duties. Chicago won the 2008 men's and women's University Athletic Association (UAA) Indoor Championships. Coach Svoboda and his colleagues were selected as the UAA Men's and Women's Indoor Coaching Staffs of the Year. His athletes won 17 UAA championships and 69 All-UAA performances. During his tenure, his Maroon athletes produced four All-Americans, eight NCAA Division III qualifiers and had 11 provisional national qualifiers. Fifteen school records were set, along with a UAA Championship mark.

Prior to his term at Chicago, Coach Svoboda was an assistant at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., from 2005 to 2006. His coaching responsibilities were hurdles, jumps and middle distance events. The Big Blue produced three NCAA Division III All-Americans and four national qualifiers. In addition, four school records were established and Millikin student-athletes won six individual Collegiate Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) Championships, along with All-CCIW performances, under coach Svoboda's guidance.

Coach Svoboda spent two years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as the Huskers graduate assistant and volunteer assistant coach.  As a volunteer coach he assisted with the sprint and hurdle events. Coach Svoboda assisted with 12 All-Americans and 13 Big 12 winners, including the 2004 Division I women's 60-meter hurdles national champion. As a graduate assistant, Coach Svoboda coordinated all on-campus recruiting visits.  Nebraska won six out of eight Big XII titles over the 2004-2005 seasons,.

He began his coaching career at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colo. Coach Svoboda worked at Fairview from 2000 to 2003, serving as a head track and field coach and assistant cross country coach. Fairview won three Colorado Class 5A cross country state team championships.

Additional coaching experience included stints with USA Track and Field in the Levels I and II certification programs.

Coach Svoboda earned the Bachelor of Science in mathematics in 1999 from Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln. He was a four-year letter-winner in both track and field and cross country. He received the Master of Science in leadership development from Nebraska in 2006.

Derick Lawrence has been the Tigers assistant cross country and track and field coach since 2010.

Coach Lawrence came to the Trinity campus from his alma mater, DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., where he was a graduate assistant coach for two years.

Coach Lawrence coached student-athletes to two cross country and six track and field NCAA All-American performances as well as one cross country and seven track and field SCAC champions. Coach Lawrence served as an instructor for the Spring 2010 Mini-Marathon Training class in the Department of Kinesiology at DePauw. 

Prior to his tenure at DePauw, Coach Lawrence was a volunteer assistant coach with the Indiana State University men’s cross country and track and field teams. The Sycamores finished as high as third in the Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country Championships. Coach Lawrence was also a media relations intern, where he produced news releases. He received a Master of Arts in recreation and sport management from the Terre Haute school in 2010.

Coach Lawrence earned the Bachelor of Arts in kinesiology (emphasis in exercise science) from DePauw in 2007.  As a student-athlete, Coach Lawrence competed on the Tigers cross country team from 2003 to 2006, and track and field from 2004 to 2007. Coach Lawrence received All-SCAC Cross Country recognition in 2006. He graduated with the fifth-best all-time DePauw performance in the 10,000 meters, during the 2007 campaign.

Coach Lawrence holds a Level 1 Coaching Education Certificate from USA Track and Field.