Randy Trivers begins his first season on the Rutgers staff after joining the program in the spring as the running backs coach.
Prior to Rutgers, Trivers spent the previous two seasons as the running backs coach at Syracuse.
During his tenure with the Orange, Trivers mentored one of the BIG EAST’s top running backs in Curtis Brinkley. Brinkley finished fourth in the BIG EAST with 1,164 yards rushing last season and scored seven touchdowns.
Before his stint with the Orange, Trivers was the head coach at Northwest High School in Germantown, Md., from 1998-2006. As the head coach at Northwest High School, Trivers coached current Scarlet Knight Joe Lefeged. Trivers mentored 42 student-athletes who went on to play on the collegiate level during his time at Northwest.
During his nine-year tenure, Trivers team’s recorded a 73-27 record and he won 12 different Coach of the Year accolades. In 2004, Trivers guided Northwest to a 13-1 record and the 3A state championship en route to being named the Maryland Associated Press Coach of the Year.
Trivers, a native of Silver Spring, Md., graduated from Holy Cross in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in English. In 1997, he earned his master’s degree in secondary education from Maryland.
