Robert J. Surace (pronounced /səˈreɪs/;[1] born April 25, 1968) is an American college football coach.

Surace was born on April 25, 1968, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, grew up in Millville, New Jersey and attended Millville Senior High School, where his father, Tony Surace, was a longtime football and baseball coach.

[5] Surace's wife Lisa was a former soccer player at Princeton, and practiced psychology in Cincinnati.

[6] In 1994, he was an assistant coach under Forrest Gregg for the Shreveport Pirates of the Canadian Football League.

[2] Princeton hired Surace in December 2009, which made him the first alumnus as coach since Bob Casciola in 1977.