The 2025 season will mark Trey Dill’s 15th year at UMD and his seventh as the Bulldogs' defensive coordinator after he received that promotion in February 2019.
In his first season as D-Coordinator in 2019, no one in the NCAA Division II had a better season than the unit Dill oversaw. For the second straight year, the Bulldogs ranked first among all NCAA II schools in total defense, allowing just 250.3 yards per game. In addition, UMD was third in team pass efficiency defense (91.83) and fewest first downs allowed (150), fourth in pass defense (142.0 yards per game), ninth in scoring defense (16.5 points per game) and ninth in punt return defense (2.82 yards per return).
Dill coached two 2024 All-NSIC First Team selections between defensive end Drew Hennesey and linebacker Mac Strand with three Second Team nominations (defensive end Liam Fahey, defensive back Preston McQueen, and defensive end Mojo Weerts). This adds to the four 2023 All-NSIC First Team selections (linebacker Andrew Klopp, defensive lineman Hennessey, defensive lineman Ethan Beffert, and defensive back Marcus GlodowskiI, as well as well second team selection defensive back Tim Pokornowski. In 2022, Dill's Bulldog Defense finished in the top 10 nationally in rush defense, sacks and interceptions and had five First Team All-NSIC North Division selections on the defensive side of the ball and defensive back Dayvia Gbor was a Second Team All-Region choice. In fact, over his last five season's, Dill has had 27 defensive players named to NSIC squads.
Dill joined the Bulldog program in 2011 and since then has served as the defensive line coach (2011-18), special teams coordinator (2018), recruiting coordinator (2011-18) and outside linebacker coach (2018). During that time, he mentored the likes of two-time All-NSIC defensive linemen Dre Greer, Jonathan Harden (a 2015 USA College Football All-American), Jacob Brusehaver, Buma Foncham, Karl Finkel, Nick Thorpe and Chris Vandervest as well as 2018 Don Hansen All-American outside linebacker Alex Helmer.
Dill previously served a two-season appointment as the inside linebackers coach at intrastate rival St. Cloud State University and helped groom a pair of All-NSIC performers during his time with the Huskies (who qualified for the 2010 NCAA II playoffs). He signed on with the St. Cloud State staff fresh off a four-year playing career as a reserve linebacker at that same institution.
A two-time member of the North Central Conference Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll, Dill is currently completing a Master’s degree in Sports Administration from St. Cloud State, where he graduated in 2008 with a B.S. degree in marketing.
The St. Cloud Tech High School alumnus, resides in Duluth with his son, Tucker. His father, Tracy Dill, is the former director of intercollegiate athletics at Bemidji State University and is currently the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's commissioner.
