Trumain Carroll, a 19-year veteran of the strength and conditioning field who has spent the last 10 years leading strength and conditioning efforts at FBS schools, is in his fifth season at K-State in 2025.
Carroll has helped preside over a change in culture the last four seasons as he emphasis on K-State’s four core values – Commitment, Toughness, Discipline and Selflessness – has guided the Wildcats to a combined 36-17 record, three bowl victories and the 2022 Big 12 Championship with a hard-fought 31-28 overtime victory over No. 3 TCU. In fact, since Carroll’s arrival prior to the 2021 season, K-State is one of only five Power 4 teams to win at least nine games each of the last three seasons with at least one conference championship in that timeframe.
Carroll came to Manhattan after one season as the Director of Football Strength and Conditioning at South Florida, while he was the Director of Strength and Conditioning for the Arkansas football program the previous two seasons.
No stranger to the Big 12 and the Midwest, Carroll played football at Oklahoma State from 2001 to 2005 and served two different terms as an assistant strength coach for the Cowboys, while he also was the Director of Strength and Conditioning at the University of Missouri-Kansas City from 2008 to 2011.
After his playing days at OSU where he helped the Cowboys earn three-consecutive bowl berths, Carroll was an assistant strength and conditioning coach from 2006 to 2008. While in Stillwater, Carroll designed and directed the strength program for the Oklahoma State women’s basketball program that advanced to the Sweet 16 in the 2007 NCAA Tournament. He also assisted in the strength and conditioning program with the football team that won the 2006 Independence Bowl and the 2007 Insight.com Bowl.
Carroll then went to be the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at South Carolina State from 2011 to 2012 where he oversaw the strength and conditioning program for over 300 student-athletes in 14 sports before returning to OSU for the 2013 and 2014 seasons and working with current K-State assistant head coach Van Malone.
In 2015, Carroll went to SMU as the Director of Strength and Conditioning for the Mustangs for three seasons. While in Dallas, Carroll oversaw all strength and conditioning for over 400 student-athletes in 17 sports with an emphasis in football, a time in which he worked with Malone and current Wildcat defensive ends coach Buddy Wyatt.
During his tenure at SMU, Carroll’s efforts in the weight room aided in the development of All-American wide receivers Courtland Sutton and Trey Quinn, who both went on to NFL Draft selection. Sutton and Quinn were two of the most dynamic wide receivers in college football in 2017, each posting 1,000-yard receiving seasons to become one of the only pair of teammates in the FBS to accomplish the feat.
In addition to Sutton and Quinn, Carroll has helped develop 22 other players that have been selected in the NFL Draft, including nine during his first three years at K-State.
Carroll earned his bachelor’s degree in university studies from Oklahoma State in December 2005. He received his Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach Certification in May 2007 and his USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Certification in February 2008. Most recently, Carroll earned his Master Strength and Conditioning Certification in May 2020.
Carroll and his wife, Jarne, have a son, Deuce, and a daughter, Mira.
