The 2025-26 academic year will be Todd Gibson's 22nd overall year at Grove City College. He will enter his 11th year of leading the College's athletic department and his first as the College's Vice President for Athletics. The College promoted Gibson to Vice President at the conclusion of the 2024-25 academic year.
“Todd is one of the College's most significant leaders,” President Paul J. McNulty ’80 said. “He manages an athletics program that impacts hundreds of our students and benefits the entire campus community. He plays a critical role in building and strengthening the faith-first cultures of our varsity teams. Under his leadership, the College is achieving our goal of becoming one of the best Christian college athletics programs in the country.”
Under Gibson’s leadership, the Grove City athletic department has excelled in all areas. The philosophy of “Wolverines Together” has further galvanized Grove City’s tradition-laden athletic department while fostering continued success at the conference, regional and national levels.
Grove City has swept the Presidents' Athletic Conference men's and women's All-Sports Trophies in each of the last two seasons. In 2024-25, Grove City sent teams and/or athletes to 11 NCAA Division III Championships and finished 69th in the NACDA Learfield Directors' Cup Division III standings.
A league-high 11 Wolverine teams won conference titles in 2024-25. The previous year, Grove City teams won a conference-best 10 conference titles, with five teams advancing to NCAA Division III Championship Tournament play.
Grove City student-athletes also excelled in the classroom in 2023-24 as 209 athletes earned Presidents' Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll distinction during the academic year. The College produced a league-leading 104 Fall Academic Honor Roll selections in the first semester, then had a program-record 105 honorees in spring 2024.
In 2022-23, Grove City won the Presidents' Athletic Conference Men's All-Sports Trophy while the women's while the women’s teams placed second in the All-Sports Trophy race. The previous year, Grove City won the Women's All-Sports Trophy and took second in the men's competition.
In 2018-19, the College led the conference by having a PAC-record 149 student-athletes earn PAC Academic Honor Roll distinction.
Grove City has added men's and women's lacrosse to its varsity sports offerings under Gibson's leadership. Grove City's 24th varsity sport, men's volleyball, will begin varsity competition in January 2025.
Gibson spent seven seasons as Grove City’s head men’s and women’s track and field coach. He guided both programs to outdoor conference titles in 2014 and 2015. In February 2015, Gibson directed the women’s track and field team to the PAC title in indoor track and field. He earned five conference Coach of the Year awards as head coach.
In 2010, Gibson joined the Department of Exercise Science and Athletics as an assistant professor. He served as an assistant track and field coach at the College for two years. Gibson also spent 11 years as an assistant football coach.
As a student-athlete at Grove City, he started for two seasons at split end in football during his career (1998 to 2001) and led the team in receiving as a senior. He helped the Wolverines to the conference title in 1998.
Gibson graduated from Grove City with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He also owns a bachelor’s degree in integrated social studies/secondary education from Youngstown State University. In 2006, he completed his master’s degree in exercise science from California (Pa.) University.
Gibson owns Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Performance Enhancement Specialist credentials. He resides in Mars, Pa., with his wife Richelle and their daughters, Madeline and Carly.
