[1] While attending Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Troyan competed in both basketball and track.
She was voted the basketball team's most valuable player following her 1988 senior season, and was a three-time All-American in track.
[2] She met her future husband Fran while finishing undergraduate studies at Dickinson University, where he was enrolled at Penn State Dickinson Law.
When she accepted a graduate assistant's job with Lehigh's University women's basketball team and pursued her Master of Business Administration at Lehigh, he worked in nearby Allentown.
They reside in Lower Saucon Township, Pennsylvania, and have three children.