TCU's first-ever women's volleyball coach, the refreshing Troudt certainly has merited her reputation as a first-rate program builder, feats she successfully turned at both Goodland, KS and Greeley, CO high schools, as well as at Texas Woman's University, her previous stop.
Troudt began the first of her 18 years of coaching at Goodland, where from 1978 through 1982 her teams appeared in four consecutive Kansas championship tournaments including winning the 1981 state title. From there she returned to her hometown of Greeley, transforming the program at Greeley's West High School from a 2-19 finisher into a 22-3 state runnerup in only four years. She was recognized as as Colorado's District 6 Coach of the Year in 1986.
Troudt's reputation has steadily grown nationally principally through her success and involvement with USA junior and youth volleyball programs. In 1994, she spent the summer at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO, and took the USA Youth National team on an international competition tour in Mexico, site of the NORCECA Junior Championships.
Then, in 1995, Troudt assembled a team which trained in San Diego before travelling to Slovakia where it claimed the Slovakia Cup, 4-2.
Additionally, for the past four years Troudt chaired the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA Division II All-American Committee. Plus, she also has been a member of the AVCA National Ranking Committee.
Troudt coached for ten seasons at TWU before joining the upstart program at TCU in the fall of 1995. She earned her 300th career coaching victory this past fall and is only a handful of wins from reaching 200-victory mark on the collegiate level.
Troudt completed her bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Northern Colorado in 1978, where she had played four years of Division I volleyball serving as captain both her junior and senior seasons. She added a master's degree in special education from Northern Colorado in 1985.
In her spare time, Troudt is an avid reader as well as learning to be a water sports person.