Trinity Women’s Athletics Highlights

• Tennis was Trinity’s first varsity sport for women in 1970, quickly followed by field hockey and squash in 1971
• The U.S. Women’s Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association was founded by Trinity in 1972
• In 1975, Trinity formed a Title IX Compliance Committee to conduct a mandatory evaluation of the athletic program from faculty, students, and staff, which led to locker facility upgrades, the hire of another full-team female coach, new uniforms, additional sport offerings, and equal coverage of women’s sports in the Trinity TRIPOD
• In the first five years of Title IX, Trinity women won or tied almost 75 percent of their matches in their five varsity sports (tennis, field hockey, squash, lacrosse, basketball)
• NCAA final four in field hockey the first year NESCAC allowed participation in 1993, and again in 1999 and 2021
• First National Team Championship in women’s squash (Howe Cup) in 2002. The team went on to win 2 more national titles in 2003 and 2014.
• First NCAA Championship by a women’s program was in women’s lacrosse in 2012, runner-up in women’s lacrosse in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• NCAA Championship in women’s rowing in 2014
• NCAA Final Four in women’s lacrosse in 2017
• Addition of women’s golf in 2018. Trinity now sponsors 15 women’s varsity sports and 15 men’s varsity sports.