Athletics Goldstein earns All-American honors for Trinity football team Senior safety Aaron Goldstein leads a long list of Bantam football players chosen to receive post-season awards for their outstanding play during the 2004 season. Goldstein is one of 13 Bantam players who were honored following Trinity's second consecutive undefeated (8-0) season that included a third-straight New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship and a final national ranking of No. 20 in the Football Gazette Division III National Poll. Goldstein was honored as a member of the AFCA All-American First Team, the Football Gazette All-American Third Team, and the D3football.com AllAmerican Third Team. He was also selected to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) All-Northeast Region First Team, the New England Football Writers Division II/III All-New England Team., the All-NESCAC First Team, and as the NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year. In addition, Goldstein was chosen for, and played in, the 2004 Aztec Bowl as a member of the AFCA Division III All-Star Team against the Mexican National Team in Cancun, Mexico, in December. In that game, Goldstein tied for the team lead in tackles with seven and recorded a sack, as Team USA routed the Mexican National Team, 23-3. Goldstein is also a two-year letterwinner in baseball and a 2002-03 letterwinner in basketball for the Bantams. A graduate of Edina High School, Goldstein maintains a 3.0 g.p.a. in economics.
Priore wins three different coach of the year awards Head Football Coach Chuck Priore has been named the 2004 New England Small College Athletic Conference
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(NESCAC) Football Coach of the Year, the New England Football Writers' Association New England Division II/III Coach of the Year, and the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Division III Regional Coach of the Year. After finishing the 2004 season with a perfect 8-0 record and winning the league title for the third year in a row, the Bantams have won 22 consecutive games, dating back to the second game of the 2002 campaign-the longest winning streak in all of NCAA Division III football . Trinity dominated the league this fall , winning all of its games by 18 points or more and leading the league in almost every statistical category on offense and defense. Priore took over the reins of the football program immediately following the 1999 season, after eight seasons as the offensive line coach and offensive coordi-
nator at the University of Pennsylvania. He has compiled a 31-9 record in five seasons. Priore was recognized as the New England Coach of the Year at the annual New England Football Writers' banquet in early December and was also recognized by his peers at the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Coach of the Year Dinner in January in Louisville, Kentucky.
Men's ice hockey gives coach 400th win The men's ice hockey team opened its season in style, routing Southern Maine, 7-2, to give Head Coach John Dunham his 400th career victory. One of only three active Division III coaches to achieve that feat, Dunham has a 30-plusyear career record of 406-286-25. At press time, the team was ranked No.9, in the nation and was 9-1 overall/ 5-1 in