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====== Track and Field ======

[{{:24976999.jpg?250 |Possible track meet at Trinity College, ca. 1900. Photo credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.24976999|Trinity College Archives]]}}]
[{{ :rbak.jpeg?150|NCAA Division III National Champion Ryan Bak '03 at the Penn Relays. Photo credit: Runnerspace}}]
Track and field at Trinity has existed since the 1880s, and a men's team was formed in 1895. The men's team has had one NCAA qualifier, Ryan Bak '03, who qualified four times, won the NCAA Division III National Championship for two indoor track events, and was named NESCAC Runner of the Year (2001, 2002), New England Runner of the Year (2002), and NCAA Division III National Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year (2003). The men's team has also had five NESCAC champions, 10 New England champions, and one ECAC champion.

The first Black athlete to letter in a sport was Ralph F. Davis '53 who ran track. 

[{{:wtrack.png?300 |2000-01 women's track and field team.}}]
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The women's varsity track and field team was formed in 1983, though there were Trinity women competing in intercollegiate track meets beginning in 1980. Amanda Rival '01 won the NCAA Division III Heptathlon in 2001, and Trinity has had five qualifiers, five NESCAC champions, 12 New England champions, and two ECAC champions. 

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===== Sources =====

[[https://bantamsports.com/documents/2022/9/1/alltimetrackhonors22.pdf | All Time Track Honors]]

[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29320453|The Trinity Ivy]] (2002).

[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29918937|The Trinity Tripod]], 05/20/1980.

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4/|The History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver, p. 211. 

[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.32704321|Trinity Tablet]], 10/26/1895.  

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