Hour of Power



The Bantams Celebrate After The Hour of Power

On November 8, 2011 the Bantams participated in the Ted Mullin “Hour of Power.” The Relay event has grown from 15 teams in its first year to 146 teams in 2011, with almost 7,000 athletes participating. Over the past five years, participants in the "Hour of Power” raised over $265,000 for the Ted Mullin Fund for Pediatric Sarcoma Research at the Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago.  The relay style set was Ted’s favorite, and hist former Carleton College team felt it would be an appropriate memorial to Ted to run a “Leave it in the Pool” practice consisting of continuous relays, any stroke, all-out swimming, for one hour, with the objective of keeping all relays in each lane on the same length. All 146 teams across the country complete the set during the same hour.

Ryan McCann Attends Fall Leadership Conference For the Presidential Fellows Program In Washington D.C.: In His Own Words

Ryan McCann '14

"I went to Washington D.C. last November for the fall leadership conference, which is one, of two, mandatory conferences for the Presidential Fellows Program. The purpose of the program is to enrich the 75 selected undergraduate students with knowledge and leadership training, while allowing them first hand experience into meeting the leaders of the American political world. This experience is boiled down to the crafting of a 15 page single spaced dissertation that is relevant to some aspect of the American political system. The ultimate goal is that my paper will be among the top two and win the distinguished James R. Moffett Award or the Donald B. Marron Award. In addition the top 18 papers are also published into the Fellows Review, which is read by many members of Congress. Among 75 other students, from the best schools in the country, I was able to not only share my ideas about what I wanted my paper to focus on, but I was able to hear feedback from what they thought would be better approaches. There were also many guest speakers throughout the three days spent there, among them were, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, The Honorable Togo D. West Jr., The Honorable Adrian Fenty, and Dr. James Zogby. The experience was one that I will never forget, and I look forward to attending the spring leadership conference."

Christine Myksin '07 Gets Married!

Former swimmer Christine Myksin '07 and Jonathan LaFrance were married at the Trinity Chapel last weekend. Shannon Conner '07, Luvean Myers '07, and Jennie Knott Bolt '07 were all members of the wedding party. Other former swimmers & divers in attendance were Mike Lenihan '07, Sarah Sweatt '07, Chris Minue '07, Emma Goehring '08, and Crosby Bain '11.


I had the honor of attending, and it was such a treat to visit and catch up with so many of our swimming & diving alums (and their parents too!).


It was a beautiful ceremony on an unusually warm fall day on campus. The Bantam made a surprise appearance for a post ceremony photo-op and to congratulate the newlyweds.


Here are a few more photos from the evening:

Christine Myksin's Wedding

CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES TO CHRISTINE & JON!

Megan Chiu & Alex Zhang Work On Humanitarian Free and Open Software Project

Alex Zhang '14

Megan Chiu '14

Congratulations go out once again to Alex Zhang '14 and our very own Megan Chiu '14. Please see the attached article (and video) about how Megan Chiu ’14 and Alex Zhang ’14 spent their summers at Trinity working on the Humanitarian Free and Open Software (HFOSS) project, programming developing mobile applications to help non-profit organizations supply food and water to those in need in Haiti.

https://twebmail.trincoll.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d0e9cea4f11c44b2a7b2a45cb66a249d&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.trincoll.edu%2fNewsEvents%2fNewsArticles%2fPages%2fHFossHaiti.aspx

Alex Zhang Named Dean's Scholar

Congratulations to Alex Zhang ‘14, who has become a Deans’ Scholar for the Class of 2014! “Deans’ Scholars are the 25 full-time first-year students with the highest grade point averages at the end of the spring semester. Membership in the company of Deans’ Scholars is intended both to recognize outstanding academic achievement and to encourage continued academic excellence. Students remain Deans’ Scholars through the end of their sophomore year.” Way to go Alex!

Trinity Swimming & Diving Welcomes Newest Bantams

The Trinity College swimming and diving team welcomed the class of 2015 to campus this past week. 

The men’s team adds Sam Ruddock III (Cleveland, OH), a sprint/mid-distance freestyler who should make an immediate impact with incoming times of 21.90, 47.70 and 1:44.38 in the 50, 100 and 200 Free. Alex Kurose (East Greenwich, RI) will add depth in the sprint freestyle events as well as the butterfly sprints and has potential to push our sprint free relays to new heights with top incoming times of 22.97 and 49.83 in the 50 & 100 Free. Isak Kurbasic (Lousiville, KY) should excel in the 100 fly with an incoming time of 54.30 and should add depth in the breast stroke events with times of 29.98, 1:03.32, and 2:24.08 in the 50, 100, & 200 distances. Rounding out the men’s Freshmen class is Ryan McConnell (Merion Station, PA) a distance freestyler who will push our ever improving distance group to even greater heights with incoming times of 5:03.45, 10:18.12, and 17:51.00 in the 500, 1000, and 1650 Free distances.                                               

The Bantam women welcome Audrey Butler, who will be competing for a NESCAC championship title in her rookie season as her incoming 50 breast time of 30.63 puts her 5th among returning NESCAC swimmers and only .48 seconds off of last years top finisher. Butler should also be strong in the 100 breast as her time of 1:07.68 puts her 9th among returning NESCAC swimmers. Butler will also be an asset on the medley and sprint freestyle relays. Danielle Carp (Wenham, MA) will be very strong in the 100 and 200 Fly with times of 1:01.25 and 2:22.15 respectively and should be a strong force in our mid-distance freestyle groups as well. Lexi Moroney (Manchester, MA) is a sprint freestyler who should help push our sprint group and sprint relays to the next level in the NESCAC as she boasts times of 25.4 in the 50, 55.7 in the 100 and 2:02 in the 200. Rounding out this years group of first year women is Megan Darnley holds the 1 meter diving record at her high school. Megan will bring much needed depth to our women’s diving team and will have the opportunity to learn from the best female diver Trinity has had in junior Emily Johnson.                                          

Rounding out the newbies is first year Assistant Coach, Justin Anderson, who joins Trinity after a year assisting at his alma mater the University of Mary Washington. It’s an exciting time here at Trinity as we are looking to have another record breaking season and looking to bring in our best recruiting class yet.

Bantams Raise Nearly 10K For Swim Across America

In what has become an annual tradition for the Trinity Bantams the team once again participated in Swim Across America. On July 16, the Trinity College Bantam swimming and diving family participated in a one-mile, open-water swim off of Nantasket Beach in Hull, Mass.  The Trinity team participants raised $9,925 for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the total for all teams that participated in the Boston event was $87,280.  Mike Lenihan '07 was responsible for getting Trinity and ultimately the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) involved in the annual event.  Trinity swimming and diving has raised more than $50,000 in six years for this cause.  

Below is a list of the participants from the Trinity swimming and diving program:

Katie Adams '14
Crosby Bain '11
Megan Chiu '14
Emma Goehring '08
Brooke Haynes '11
Mike Haynes   P'11
Mike Lenihan '07
Kristen Noone  M'07
Sarah Weitzman '12
Joanna Wycech '14
Mark Yanagisawa '14

For more information on Trinity’s efforts in Swim Across America, visit:
http://www.swimacrossamerica.org/site/TR?team_id=1288&fr_id=1251&pg=team