Trinity Bantams

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Trinity College Bantams
Trinity Bantams primary logo.svg
University Trinity College
Conference New England Small College Athletic Conference
NCAA Division III
Athletic directorAndrew Galbraith
Location Hartford, Connecticut
Varsity teams27 varsity
Football stadium Jessee/Miller Field
Mascot Bantam
NicknameBants
ColorsRoyal Blue and Yellow
   
Website www.bantamsports.com

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. [1]

Contents

Varsity teams

Men's sportsWomen's sports
BaseballBasketball
BasketballCross country
Cross countryField hockey
Football Ice hockey
GolfLacrosse
Ice hockeyRowing
LacrosseSoccer
RowingSoftball
SoccerSquash
Squash Swimming & diving
Swimming & divingTennis
Track & field†Track & field†
WrestlingVolleyball
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor.

Baseball

The Trinity Baseball team won the NCAA 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 (falling to 44–1), the Bantams clinched the national title by beating Johns Hopkins in the bottom of the ninth inning of the championship game. They finished the season with a 45–1 record. [1]

Basketball

Men's NCAA Division III Final Four – 1995. [2] Women's NCAA Tournament – 1995 & 1997. [3] Women's ECAC Champions – 2000. [3] 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 NCAA Division III Rowing Championship title and placed second as a team, later going on to win the Jeffries Cup at Henley Women's Regatta. [1]

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 Women's NCAA Division III rowing.

Cross Country

Women's NCAA Division III National Runners Up – 2003. Men's NCAA Division III Championships –2000, 2006 – 2008. [1]

Football

The Trinity Football team went undefeated in several seasons (2003–2005, 2008, 2012, 2016) and has won the NESCAC championship in eight of 15 recent seasons (2002–2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2017). The Bantams had also won 59 straight games at home until October 25, 2014, losing to Middlebury College. [4]

Field Hockey

NCAA Final Four – 1993, 1998 and 2021. [1]

Golf

NESCAC Champions – 2010 [1]

Ice Hockey

NCAA Division III National Champions - 2015. [5] 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. [6] Though eliminated in the NESCAC quarter finals by Tufts, [7] the Bantams were awarded one of the four at large selections to the 2015 NCAA Division III tournament [8] defeating Nichols, Plattsburgh State, and Adrian en route to their first national ice hockey championship by defeating Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the title game. [9] [10] [11]

Lacrosse

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 1999, 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. [1]

Swimming

Tennis

Track and Field

Volleyball

Wrestling

New England Conference Champions – 2001 [1]

National championships

Team

SportAssociationDivisionYearOpponent/Runner-upScore
Baseball (1) NCAA Division III [13] 2008 Johns Hopkins 5–4

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  3. 1 2 "Trinity (Conn.) women change coach". www.d3hoops.com. July 2005. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
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