The Trinity Academic Team achieved a feat not accomplished since 1997. They won the Seventh Region in Governor’s Cup competition. According to head coach Mr. Mark Amick, “This success was built on the academic talent and hard work of many individual students, plus the performance of the Trinity Quick Recall and Future Problem Solving teams.”

Along with Amick, the team was coached by Mr. Jason Rand and Mrs. Judy Waggoner.

The FPS team of Alex Cox, Justin DePrado, Michael Bei and Michael Massey placed third. For the second consecutive year, Trinity’s FPS team, coached by Mr. Tim Jones, placed in the top three in the region, an accomplishment that had not happened since 2006-07.

The TQR team of Sammy Mattingly, Nick Huls, Jack McCalpin, Aden Yeager and Evan Baldridge also finished third. The Rocks eliminated Mercy and St. Xavier, going 5-1 against the Tigers on the year, before falling to KCD in the semifinals.

Amick said Trinity beat the Bearcats twice this year, but they were an excellent opponent and finished the league season as co-champs with Trinity.

In individual testing, the Rocks enjoyed a great depth of talent.

Placing for the Rocks were the following:

Jack McCalpin – Region Champion in Language Arts

Will Kempf – second in Composition

Nick Huls – second in Arts & Humanities and third in Social Studies

Sammy Mattingly – third in Science and fourth in Language Arts

Christopher Kolibab – fourth in Composition

Tom Kalmer – fifth in Science

Dylan Fox – fifth in Arts & Humanities

That group will represent Trinity at the state tournament in Louisville on Sunday, Mar. 17.