The Trinity College Bantams are the varsity and club athletic teams of Trinity College, a selective liberal arts college located in Hartford, Connecticut. Trinity's varsity teams compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. The College offers 27 varsity teams, plus club sports, intramural sports.
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Varsity Teams
Baseball
The Trinity Baseball team won the Division III national title in 2008, after having started the season 44-0, shattering numerous records in the process. After having been handed their first loss of the year by Johns Hopkins (to fall to 44-1), the Bantams clinched the national title by beating Johns Hopkins in the bottom of the ninth of the championship game. They finished the season with a 45-1 record.
Basketball
Men's NESCAC Champions - 2008
Crew
Both the men's and women's rowing teams are consistently ranked within the top five teams in NCAA Division III competition. In 2008, the women's Varsity 8+ won the Division III NCAA Rowing Championship title and placed second as a team and later went on to win the Jeffries Cup at Henley Women's Regatta.
The Bantams Women's Rowing Team won the NCAA Championship in 2014 at Eagle Lake in Indianapolis Indiana. The Event which occurred on May 30 and 31, 2014, resulted in both a team and First Varsity Eight Win and ended Williams College's eight-year run as team champions in the Women's DIII rowing world.
Cross Country
women div III NCAA National Runners Up - 2003 men's div III NCAA Championships - 2000, 2006 - 2008
Football
The Trinity Football team has gone undefeated in several recent seasons (2003-2005, 2008, 2012, 2016) and has won the NESCAC championship in seven of the past 14 seasons (2002-2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016). The Bantams have also won 59 straight at home until October 25, 2014, losing to Middlebury College.
Field Hockey
NCAA Final Four - 1993 & 1998
Golf
NESCAC Champions - 2010
Ice Hockey
NCAA Division III National Champions - 2015. By virtue of their 16-1-1 conference record, the Bantams received the top seed and home ice advantage throughout the 2015 NESCAC Men's Ice Hockey Championship for a second consecutive season. Though eliminated in the NESCAC quarter finals by Tufts, the Bantams were awarded one of the four at large selections to the 2015 NCAA Division III tournament defeating Nichols, Plattsburgh State, and Adrian en route to their first ever national ice hockey championship by defeating Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the title game.
Lacrosse
- Women's NCAA National Champions - 2012
- women's NESCAC Champions- 2011
- women's NCAA Tournament - 1995, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Soccer
Softball
Squash
The Trinity Bantams men's squash team holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak in any intercollegiate sport in the nation's history. On January 18, 2012, Trinity's 252-game unbeaten streak ended in a 5-4 loss to the Yale Bulldogs. The Bantams have won 13 consecutive national titles since 1998, when they first took home the Potter Trophy. They have also garnered attention and praise from major media outlets such as ESPN, Sports Illustrated and USA Today, among others. They were recently ranked by ESPN as one of the top ten sports dynasties of all time.
Swimming
Tennis
Track and Field
Volleyball
Wrestling
New England Conference Champions - 2001
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References
External links
- Official website
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