Trinity Golf Team Hosts Two-Site Tournament To Start 2009-10
Hartford, Conn. - The Trinity College golf squad, under the direction of three-time NESCAC Coach of the Year Bill Detrick (19th Season), is eager to begin the 2009-10 season after enjoying another tremendous campaign a year ago. The 2008-09 Bantams finished second in the NESCAC Championship Qualifying Tournament, and followed that with their second consecutive ECAC Championship title last fall. Trinity closed 2007 with a first-place finish in the Muhlenberg Invitational, and defeated nationally-ranked Rhodes and Oglethorpe in a tri-match during its spring break trip to Florida. The Bantams tied Middlebury for first place in the NESCAC Spring Championship but the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Field was awarded to the Panthers due to tiebreaking rules. Trinity opens the season this weekend in the two-day Trinity Invitational at Blackledge Country Club in Hebron, Conn. on Saturday, September 12 and at Shuttle Meadow Country Club in Berlin, Conn. on Sunday, September 13.
Current senior co-captain Reid Longley (Atlanta, Ga.) earned NESCAC Player for the second time in three seasons to give the Bantams the last four individual champions in the league. Junior Josh Grossman (Great Neck, N.Y.) was the 2007 NESCAC Player of the Year, while junior co-captain Jay Driscoll (Milton, Mass.) was an All-NESCAC honoree and the ECAC Individual Champion last fall, and senior David Anderson (Wellesley, Mass.) took all-league honors in 2006-07. Sophomore Alex Bermingham (Bedford, N.Y.) joins those four as a top returnee, having earned Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) East Region Rookie of the Year honors in the spring of 2009.
