Sports
Trinity has a long history of sport. From its very beginnings sport played an important role in students life. Rugby is an important and strong tradition at Trinity and many of its past Alumni went on to become very successful in the sport.
Facilities
The College has continued this sporting heritage into the present day. Today the college boasts a fully equipped and up to date gymnasium and sports hall. It has a climbing wall, a swimming pool, tennis courts and an astro turf. As well as this the college has a large open area playing fields and outdoor weather pitch near the town leisure center. On top of this, the college has an academic application of sport with the school of nutrition health and exercise. This school, housed in the Robert hunter building, teaches degrees in nutrition, lifestyle, fitness and exercise referral and physical/ outdoor education.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)