Trinity Golf Team, MacColl Earn Academic Honors In 2008-09
Hartford, Conn., September 3, 2009 - Senior golf co-captain Josh Biren (Sudbury, Mass.) received a Trinity College Bartlett Award for his combined excellence in athletics and devotion to community and/or campus service, while classmate Alec MacColl (Centennial, Colo.) was selected as a Cleveland Golf/Srixon Division III All-America Scholar by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and to the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) All-Academic Team. The Bantam golf squad also received All-Academic distinction by the GCAA for maintaining a 3.5 g.p.a. or better during the 2009 spring semester. Each student-athlete selected to the NESCAC All-Academic Team must be starter or key reserve for a varsity team and maintain at least a 3.35 grade-point average.
The Trinity golf squad, coached by Bill Detrick (18th Season), finished tied for first with Middlebury in the NESCAC Championship Tournament but the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament was awarded to Middlebury due to tiebreaking rules. The Bantam won four other tournaments outright, repeating as Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Champions and winning the Trinity Shootout, the Muhlenberg Invitational, and the Hampton Inn Invitational in North Dartmouth, Mass.
Biren, a two-year team captain and an all-NESCAC honoree in his freshman and senior seasons, recorded a season-best, two-round score of 153 in the NESCAC Fall qualifier and added a top score in a single round of 71 in the Trinity Invitational. His top career score is 149 for two rounds at the 2006 Central Connecticut Invitational. In the community, Biren served as President of his fraternity, Psi Upsilon, founder of "Students for Scholarship, chair of the Inter-Greek Council, entertainment activities council representative for the senior class, and co-founder of Trinsnacks.com. He organized Car Wash For Cancer that raised 4,000 dollars for a mobile mammography unit for Hartford Hospital, and he raised 5,500 for the hospital's patient navigation program at the hospital and The American Cancer Society through a spring formal concert and his effort at Relay for Life. Biren also helped put together a hip-hop concert to raise money for student scholarships in the spring of 2009. Biren is an alum of Lincoln-Sudbury High School and graduated from Trinity in May with a degree in economics. He is the son of Randi and Alan Biren.
MacColl recorded a season- and career-best, two-round score of 148 this fall at both the Duke Nelson Invitational and Middlebury and the Williams Invitational, and shot a season-best 71 and a 77 on the two days both weekends. He finished a season-best fourth in the NESCAC Championship Tournament and added fifth-place performances in the Duke Nelson Invitational and the Hampton Inn Classic at Mass.-Dartmouth. MacColl is an alum of the Catlin Gabel School in Oregon and graduated from Trinity in May with a degree in economics. He is the son of Ann and Craig MacColl.
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