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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 The New England Small Collegiate Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eleven highly selective liberal arts institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. ...
of the
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(NCAA)
Division III In sport, the Third Division, also called Division 3, Division Three, or Division III, is often the third-highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Association football *Belgian Thir ...
. The College offers 27 varsity teams, plus club sports, intramural sports.


Varsity teams


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 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.


Basketball

Men's NCAA Division III Final Four – 1995. Women's NCAA Tournament – 1995 & 1997. Women's ECAC Champions – 2000. 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. 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.


Football

The Trinity Football team went undefeated in several seasons (2003–2005, 2008, 2012, 2016) and has won the
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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.


Field Hockey

NCAA Final Four – 1993 & 1998.


Golf

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Champions – 2010


Ice Hockey

NCAA Division III National Champions - 2015. By virtue of their 16–1–1 conference record, the Bantams received the top seed and home ice advantage throughout the 2015
NESCAC The New England Small Collegiate Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eleven highly selective liberal arts institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. T ...
Men’s Ice Hockey Championship for a second consecutive season. Though eliminated in the NESCAC quarter finals by
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, the Bantams were awarded one of the four at large selections to the 2015 NCAA Division III tournament defeating
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en route to their first ever national ice hockey championship by defeating Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the title game.


Lacrosse

* Women's NCAA National Champions – 2012 * women's
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Champions – 2011 * women's NCAA Tournament – 1995, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011


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
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. 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
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'', among others. They were recently ranked by ESPN as one of the top ten sports dynasties of all time.


Swimming


Tennis


Track and Field


Volleyball


Wrestling

New England Conference Champions – 2001


References


External links

* {{Connecticut Sports Ice hockey teams in Connecticut