Phil Martin was head football coach at Montgomery College-Rockville from 1982 until the program’s end in 2002.  During those 21 years, Coach Martin won over two-thirds of the games that he coached, with a final record of 137-58-9.  He sent more than 188 players to play at four-year colleges and universities; 20 of those players advanced to Division I schools on NCAA scholarships, and seven have gone on to play professional football.  His 1986 and 1990 teams played for the NJCAA national championships, with the 1990 team led by quarterback John Kaleo, who won the NJCAA’s Player of the Year award in 1990 and is still playing in the Arena Football League.  Coach Martin’s 1999 team played in the Golden Isles Bowl for the NJCAA East Coast championship.

In November, 2002, Coach Martin was inducted into the NJCAA Football Hall of Fame; he was selected as Small College Coach of the Year in 1990 by the Washington, D.C., Touchdown Club; and he has served as president, vice president, and secretary for the NJCAA Football Coaches Association.  He was named region or conference coach of the year 14 different times during his football coaching career at MC.

Coach Martin is now an assistant football coach for the Shenandoah University Hornets, a Division III team, in Winchester, Virginia.  He is serving as defensive coordinator, taking over a unit that finished seventh in the nation for the 2002 season in turnover margin and boasted at least one All-Dixie Conference performer at every position.