Trigg lettered in football, basketball and baseball at Theodore Roosevelt High School in San Antonio, Texas.
Trigg also led the team in total yards per game with 175.3 and earned Second-team All-Lone Star Conference (LSC) honors.
The Lions had started the season with an 8–1 record and were ranked as high as #2 in the NCAA Division II polls before losing the final 2 games.
He played from 1989 to 1990 with the Detroit Drive of the Arena Football League (AFL), winning ArenaBowls III and IV.
The Cavalry finished the regular season with five wins and seven losses, losing in round one of the playoffs to the Orlando Predators.
Trigg was head coach of the AFL's Grand Rapids Rampage from 1998 to 2003, earning five consecutive playoff berths from 1999 to 2003.