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Women lose in Sweet Sixteen

Elise Hester March 24, 2017

Trinity women's basketball capped off a historically successful season this year by making it to the round of 16 at the NCAA tournament. The seventh ranked Trinity team started strong in the post season...

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The art of the walk up song

Elise Hester March 3, 2017

Walk up songs are short music selections that play as baseball and softball players walk up to the plate or take the mound.  There are also players thinking outside of the box, and those who come  up...

Women are the champions

Women are the champions

Elise Hester March 3, 2017

The women's basketball team tasted sweet victory this past weekend, winning the SCAC championship The Tigers finished the regular season with the best record in the conference. This allowed them to start...

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Learning to just roll with the punches

Elise Hester February 27, 2017

It was the early 2010s in the small Walker County neighborhood of Timberwilde, a couple miles on the outskirts of Huntsville, Texas. Each day I sat in my room waiting for the day to end. Each day I waited...

Randy Gibbons has become a beloved member of the Trinity community this year.

The man behind the counter: Randy Gibbons

Elise Hester February 27, 2017

It is late in the evening in the library. The third floor echos with the quiet whispers of study groups and the chatter of keyboards, along with the steam rising off the hot drinks in Java City. It is...

Hop, skip, jumping to victory

Hop, skip, jumping to victory

Elise Hester February 9, 2017

COMPILED BY ELISE HESTER As a child, junior Britney Sullivan played soccer, basketball, softball. The long jumper started participating in track and field the summer of fourth grade with her older sister,...

When life throws a changeup

When life throws a changeup

Elise Hester February 9, 2017

COMPILED BY ELISE HESTER From an early age, Mark Tindall lived and breathed baseball. "My mom actually has a picture of me when I'm like a little baby and I got on like a little helmet and a bat,"...

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Trinity athletes share about pre-game rituals

Elise Hester February 9, 2017

In the same way that teams warm up their bodies before competition, many Trinity teams have established traditions that mentally prepare, relax, hype and unite the athletes before games. These unique rituals...

Junior guard Micah Weaver lofts a shot from the middle of the key.

Tigers sweep opponents over the weekend

Elise Hester February 9, 2017

Both the Trinity men and women's basketball team swept their games during the final weekend of January. The women went into the weekend of home games ready and excited for the awaiting competition. "I...

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Spotlighting two of Trinity basketball’s standouts

Elise Hester February 2, 2017

After two difficult years playing Division II basketball at Texas A&M Kingsville, Micah Weaver transferred to the University of Texas at San Antonio, thinking she would never play again. It was her...

A necessary investigation into winter training

A necessary investigation into winter training

Elise Hester January 19, 2017

The basketball and swim teams spend several weeks on campus with no other student life; what happens? As a child I asked so many questions that in the fourth grade, the official notes from the psychiatrist...

Club basketball is here

Club basketball is here

Elise Hester January 19, 2017

Logan Simmons talks about the Campus's addition Logan Simmons had never played "” or watched "” basketball before he came to Trinity. Today he and several friends are in the process of creating...