Midnight Madness 2015

We would like to thank all of the students who came out last night to Midnight Madness. It was a fun event that raised money for the Wounded Warrior Project. With our first scrimmage tomorrow morning, Midnight Madness was a great way for our guys to let loose after a great week of competitive practices. Junior forward AJ Pulliam took home the dunk title with a well timed alley-oop assist from sophomore guard Nik Oakes (who threw it from the third floor).

Senior Spotlight - Jimmy Clark '16

Meet Trinity Basketball senior guard Jimmy Clark. Jimmy came to Trinity from Rockford, IL and is the only senior on this year's roster. Jimmy graduated from Trinity this past May and is currently a graduate student in Trinity's Healthcare Administration Program.

King of the Court 2015

At the start of each season, we hold our annual King of the Court competition, which is a series of individual strength and conditioning tests. Our guys are awarded points based on how they finish in each test, as well as how much they have improved in each test from their prior year's testing.

Defending his title for the third year in a row, Senior grad Jimmy Clark showed that continued hard work pays off. Jimmy tested towards the top of each test, but more importantly improved in all but one. To put this into perspective, Jimmy had to make significant gains each season, while also testing towards the top each competition. He's setting a great example of what hard work really is!

Congrats, Jimmy!

Opening Weekend Practices

The 2015-16 Basketball Season has officially begun!!! On Thursday, our Trinity Tigers took the court for the first practice of the season. A lot has been covered these last three days, with the University on Fall Break and our practice schedule loaded with two-a-days. The guys have been eager to take on the challenge. The energy level is high and the muscles are very sore! With an emphasis on effort, focus, and communication, each day is a great opportunity for this young group to make strides to getting better. We are very excited and can't wait to see these Tigers' progress!

Successful Prospect Camp

Last Saturday we enjoyed hosting our annual Trinity Basketball Prospect Camp. This is always a great opportunity for interested prospective student-athletes to work out in Sam's Gym and get to know more about Trinity. With a nice manageable camp size, our staff enjoyed getting some quality time working with and evaluating each camper. We were extremely pleased with the energy and effort shown by the campers, who were all willing to try their best with the new drills and work out format.

Team Cookout

Yesterday was a great opportunity for our team to get together at Coach Cunningham's house for a cookout. This is a pre-season tradition that lets our guys spend some time away from campus together. We also enjoyed having a few local alumni around. With a few weeks left before practices begin, finding some available time to bond as a group off the court is important. We're fortunate to have a great group of student-athletes this year and can't wait for October 15th to arrive!

Compliance Meeting

Last night, we had our team's compliance meeting, which was led by Coach Cunningham (who also serves as Trinity's Associate Director of Athletics for Compliance). This is a mandatory meeting for any student-athlete to attend who wishes to compete and come out for intercollegiate sports. We hold this meeting as early as possible in the academic year in order to cover important topics such as eligibility requirements, sexual misconduct, drugs/alcohol, hazing, and several academic issues, so that our student-athletes are well prepared for the year ahead.

First Day of Classes - Fall 2015

Today was the first day of Fall classes here at Trinity and the campus is alive again with students running around. Our guys have all gotten their schedules and are beginning to meet their professors. We encourage each of our student-athletes to make the effort early in the semester to get some quality time with each professor. At a university with a small student-professor ratio, this early interaction goes a long way in establishing a positive learning relationship. Our guys are extremely lucky to be learning from some of the best and brightest!

Move-In Day 2015

Today was Move-In Day here at Trinity University! Move-In Day marks the opening of dorms and beginning of New Student Orientation for the 2015-16 school year and campus has come alive again. The quiet days of summer around here are no more, as over 600 new Tigers arrived to campus today. The Trinity Orientation team, along with the First Year Residential Life team, does a phenomenal job these next several days welcoming and assimilating all of the new students to the Trinity community.

If you were around campus this morning, you may have seen several members of Trinity Basketball (including a nice and sweaty Coach Cunningham!) helping new students move boxes and dorm-items from cars to dorm rooms as part of Team Trinity. After our new student-athletes were able to get moved into their rooms and pile into Sam's Gymnasium to check-in, we had a great opportunity to get our guys and their families into a room together for a Meet-and-Greet. Coach Cunningham enjoyed welcoming our new Trinity Basketball family members while some of our upperclassmen back on campus were able to come meet up with their new teammates. We are blessed to have such a great group of individuals and families as part of Trinity Basketball.

Welcome Class of 2019!

Top University for Sciences

The Princeton Review just recently came out with their various college lists and ranked Trinity as having the #5 science facility in America. This is great recognition for our spectacular science departments, who also have some of the top faculty in the country, as well. Many Trinity Basketball student-athletes have excelled in the sciences, which is a testament to their hard-work and time management. If you are every around campus, we encourage you to stop buy and check out the newest addition to Trinity's campus, the Center for Sciences and Innovation.

The Trinity Standard

The National Association of Basketball Coaches has released the 2014-15 Honors Court and Team Academic Excellence Awards. We are very proud to say that our student-athletes continued to hold a high academic standard and were given the Team Academic Excellence Award for the third year in a row (which the award has only been given for the past three years). For a large group of student-athletes to hold a cumulative GPA above a 3.0 at an academically competitive university, such as Trinity, is a true testament to our guys' ability to work hard in their studies and manage their time efficiently.

We would also like to congratulate the three upperclassmen who were named to the NABC Honors Court. To earn a GPA above a 3.2, especially during your last semester of your senior year (which often carries the most challenging capstone courses), is an impressive feat for these three graduates. Congrats Jimmy, Matt, and Will!

Entrepreneurial Tigers

Forbes Magazine recently came out with a list of America's Most Entrepreneurial Colleges 2015 and ranked Trinity University at #8 in the country. We are extremely proud of this acknowledgement, as liberal arts education encourages entrepreneurial thought within its students and Trinity has established a unique program here. Trinity's Entrepreneurship program is making a major impact on one of our current student-athletes, Khambrel Roach. Kham came to Trinity from Miami, Florida and has been a member of Trinity Basketball for the past two years. Here are Kham's comments when asked about the program:

For years I have always brainstormed and imagined how much better the world would be if certain products were created. I have always had big ideas and it wasn't until my freshman year of college when I began to learn how to focus my passion for innovation. I learned that through entrepreneurship, these ideas that I constantly render in my mind could be transformed from visions into tangible products through strategic and diligent work ethic. When I heard of the entrepreneurship program at Trinity, I immediately scheduled a meeting with the program director, Dr. Martinez, to tell him all my ideas. In our meeting he smiled and said I had the mind of a true entrepreneur. I was motivated and began to work tirelessly on my ideas. I learned to code, design 3D models, and work with various animation softwares and am proud to say I have successfully started my first business, Recordio LLC, and plan to launch an app (Recordio) this coming fall. While Recordio is shaping out to be my first entrepreneurial success, I am currently involved with several other projects that have grown from my ideas. Through the program, I have been able to meet many successful entrepreneurs that have profited from their ideas, landed an internship with Venture Lab (an entrepreneurship hub located in San Antonio) and personally presented my ideas to local San Antonio investors and venture capitalists. I didn't know the Entrepreneurship program existed until I arrived here, but it has been a big part of what I love about Trinity.

- Khambrel Roach '17

July Period III - Las Vegas

The Division I open recruiting periods are officially over for 2015 and like each year, our staff attended several tournaments in Las Vegas this past week. With thousands of teams coming in from all over the country, Las Vegas is a great place to see many different players. While driving between high school gyms can become exhausting, we enjoyed seeing some terrific talent this past week.

Now that July is winding down, we are looking forward to cumulating all of our notes from this summer in search of the perfect student-athletes that fit our program. It has been a very busy July and we would like to thank all of the event organizers from this summer that helps us locate some great future Trinity Tigers.

July Period II - Duncanville

This past week the Trinity Basketball coaching staff spent the second July open recruiting period in Duncanville, TX at the Great American Shootout. Mike, Sam, Blue, and the rest of their staff always put on a world-class event that promotes great basketball. We'd like to thank them for the hospitality shown to us each year.

With one open period week remaining, be on the lookout for Trinity Basketball at the BigFoot Classic, Fab48, and Adidas Uprising in Las Vegas, NV this week.

Faces on the Hill - The Trinity Bunch

You could spend every day meeting a new face on campus and it would still take years to get through all of the impactful employees we have here at Trinity. Our student-athletes are very fortunate to be surrounded by so many caring individuals that want to help them succeed. While each student may not meet every person in every department, this video is a great start to getting to know some people that every Trinity student should get to know during their time on "the Hill."

July Period I - LA / Seattle / GMI

This past week was the first week of the July open-recruiting period for NCAA Division I programs, which means some terrific tournaments bringing in hundreds of summer teams to each event. The Trinity Basketball staff used this opportunity to get into various parts of the country and watch some talented student-athletes. Our staff made it out to the following events -

Double Pump Summer Tip-Off Classic - Anaheim, CA - This was a very well run event at the American Sports Center near Disneyland, with so many courts under one roof. It was good to see all of the Southern California programs in action, as well as many teams from out of state. The talent was strong and we look forward to returning to this event for years to come. One highlight of the week was getting to enjoy some food at the iconic Roscoe's House of Chicken & Waffles!

NW Premier Showcase - Seattle, WA - Our staff has enjoyed visiting Bellevue College the past several years for Coach Jeremy Eggers' tournament. It is not only great to see the quality of talent in the Northwest region, but the officials training that takes place at this event is world-class. There is some great teaching going on all around.

GMI - Houston, TX - Jim Hicks' George McLellan Invitational is always a well run event that treats us college coaches extremely well and brings in some of the top teams in the state and region. The basketball was really great, but it may have been outdone by the hospitality room at The Gym.


Next stop this week is to our friends Mike, Sam, and Blue's Great American Shootout in Duncanville, TX for week 2 of July Madness!

San Diego Academic Camp

This week's recruiting trip to the Hoop Mountain Elite Student Athlete Prospect Camp held on the campus of University of California, San Diego was very productive. The Hoop Mountain guys always run a great camp and attract top tier academic student-athletes, which makes it convenient for schools like Trinity to know that each athlete we are watching is also focused on his academics. There were definitely a couple of players that we will continue watching through out this July period.

Ready for July Recruiting Period

As June comes to a close, the busiest summer basketball recruiting period quickly approaches for our Trinity Basketball coaches. Over the next month, our staff will hit the road each week in search of recruitable student-athletes who are great fits for Trinity University. We will see thousands of high school players, hoping to find the right ones that would excel in a highly competitive academic and athletic environment. While there may be some schedule changes in the process, the below events have been targeted to attend.

Summer events Trinity Basketball plans to attend:

June 28-30
Hoop Mountain Elite Student Athlete Prospect Camp - San Diego, CA

July 8-12
Double Pump Summer Tip-Off Tournament - Anaheim, CA
NW Premier Summer Showcase - Bellevue, WA
George McClellan Invitational - Houston, TX

July 15-19
Great American Shootout - Duncanville, TX

July 22-26
Adidas Uprising Summer Championships - Las Vegas, NV
Bigfoot Hoops Las Vegas Classic - Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas Fab 48 - Las Vegas, NV

Setting an Academic Standard

It ceases to amaze what great student-athletes Trinity University attracts. Recently, the SCAC announced the Spring 2015 Academic Honor Roll and the Trinity Tigers lead the way again with 124 recipients. We would like to acknowledge our five Trinity Basketball honorees:

Matthew Bender, FY - Undecided
Jimmy Clark, SO - Business Finance Major, Global Health Management Major
Matt Jones, FY - Undecided
Matt Selling, SR - Business Finance Major, Sports Management Minor
William Young, SR - Business Accounting Major, Business Finance Major

These young men have maintained the strong academic standard that we strive towards and set a tone for all of our team. We are proud that our team GPA is still above the average male student's GPA here at Trinity, which shows the hard work our student-athletes have put in off the court.

Congrats guys and keep up the good work!

Welcome Class of 2019

Trinity Basketball is excited to welcome five outstanding student-athletes this Fall. The following young men have demonstrated strong character while achieving success in the classroom and on their high school teams -


Ben Beatie - Bainbridge Island, WA - Bainbridge High School - 6'9 forward
- All-West Sound Team, First Team San Diego Surf and Slam
- Two-time Social Studies Student of the Year

Matthew Colliflower - League City, TX - Clear Springs High School - 6'6 forward
- Three-Time All-District 24-6A, Kreuger-Carlisle All-Tournament Team
- Member of National Honor Society, National English Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta Honor Society, National Technical Honor Society, Quill and Scroll Honor Society
- Highlights (junior year)

Kevin Owens - Round Rock, TX - St. Dominic Savio High School - 6'8 forward
- Three-time All-District, TAPPS 4A All-State Tournament Team
- Contributed over 400 service hours through Church Lifeteen Program, Mobile Loaves and Fishes Homeless ministry.
- Highlights (junior year)

Danny Rivara - Horseshoe Bay, TX - Lake Travis High School - 6'7 forward
- Three-time All-District, Academic All-District
- Member of the National Honor Society, Two-time Spanish Student of the Year
- Highlights (senior year)

Isaiah Specks - Pearland, TX - St. Thomas Episcopal School - 6'4 forward
- 2014 TAPPS 3A State Championship, First Team All-State Team, Academic All-State
- Also participate in track & field
- Highlights (senior year)