Trinity School Grades 5-12 Admissions Newsletter - November Edition

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Admissions Newsletter FEATURED PROGRAM

Athletics

Trinity’s Department of Athletics takes inspiration from the School’s mission statement, providing meaningful learning opportunities for students outside the classroom, including community-building and developing respect for others. The program is distinct in its breadth and depth; there are various levels in many sports and students may participate in one sport or play all year! The Department of Athletics meets the needs of accomplished, experienced athletes and students who want to try something new. Trinity’s athletics program offers opportunities in unique sports, such as water polo, as well as recent additions to the program such as girls golf, boys volleyball, and squash. Seventy percent of Trinity’s Upper School students play on at least one team during the school year, giving student athletics the opportunity to meet others beyond their grade and friend groups. After a full academic day many students need a respite, and athletics provide fulfilling, inspiring, and invigorating experiences. Trinity athletics give students the opportunity to come together and have fun!

FEATURED PODCAST

Faculty author Teresa Edwards This podcast features Teacher of Physical Education and Fitness Teresa Edwards, a five-time Olympian and a four-time Olympic gold medalist—in 1984 she became the youngest basketball player to win a gold medal and in 2000 the oldest to win gold—a two-time All-American basketball player, the University of Georgia retired her jersey number, one of only three players to receive that honor. She scored 1,982 points playing for the Cairo High School Syrupmakers and in 1982 was named Georgia High School Player of the Year. She is the author of Black Gold, in which she shares her story of Olympic success and challenge and how she helped lead the USA women’s basketball squad to gold at the Atlanta Olympic Games. Profoundly influenced by the many strong women in her family and life, Teresa is a leader, a coach, and an inspiration.

LISTEN TO PODCAST

Athletics offerings: FALL BOYS TEAMS

Cross-Country Soccer GIRLS TEAMS

Cross-Country Soccer Tennis Volleyball Water Polo MIXED TEAM

Water Polo

WINTER BOYS TEAMS

SPRING BOYS TEAMS

Basketball Indoor Track and Field Squash Swimming Wrestling

Baseball Golf Lacrosse Tennis Track and Field Volleyball

GIRLS TEAMS

GIRLS TEAMS

Basketball Indoor Track and Field Squash Swimming

FEATURED VIDEO

Peter H. Walker ’76 Profile of Peter H. Walker ’76 describing how he packs for extreme backcountry skiing in the Rocky Mountains and in the Alps. Founder of Ryder-Walker Alpine Adventures, Peter is an experienced ice climber, rock climber, skier, and adventure tour guide.

Golf Lacrosse Softball Track and Field

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Admissions Newsletter Upper School Community Time speakers Every week speakers come to Upper School Community Time to talk with students about their work and lives. Inspiring, thoughtful, informative, and compelling, the Upper School Community Time speakers program provides Trinity students with the opportunity to hear from important and influential voices in a variety of disciplines, fields, and industries. Recent speakers include: Dr. Roger Berkowitz, founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and professor of political studies, philosophy, and human rights at Bard College. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition and editor of The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition.

Thomas Chatterton Williams, senior fellow and visiting professor at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and a 2022 Guggenheim fellow. He is a contributing writer at the Atlantic and the author of Losing My Cool and Self-Portrait in Black and White.

Michael Fishman, cofounder and client and development advisor of Leaf Island. Leaf Island is a firm focused on regenerating cities to function as natural ecosystems through green technology. Michael is a strategic planning professional with twenty-five years of experience representing owners and operators of critical infrastructure. He has managed interdisciplinary teams through design and construction of major capital programs from serving the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery to executing a pedestrian engineering fellowship that resulted in the closure of Broadway to traffic in Times Square. He is currently the principal city planner for Mott MacDonald and a professor of urban planning at New York University’s Schack Real Estate Institute.

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, executive director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center at New York University School of Law. An attorney and leading advocate for equitable menstrual policy in the United States, she is the author of Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity. Weiss-Wolf’s scholarship has been published by the NYU Review of Law and Social Change, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice. Her writing and work have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, and Teen Vogue, among others.

From the Archives 1881, Class pictures of the Lower School and Middle School when Trinity was in Times Square at 1521 Broadway, between 44th and 45th Streets. Trinity School started in 1709 at Trinity Church Wall Street and moved eleven times, following the growth of Manhattan, until settling in 1895 at its current location on West 91st Street.

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