Our former students’ social and sports club is delighted to have opened its doors again to its members.
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Trinity Golf Society The Society has had a great start to the year, with our early Spring fixture at Croham Hurst GC in March, won by new member and alumnus Mark Willis, and our Spring Day out at Worthing GC in May, won by another new member, David Dieterle. On both occasions, the friendly chitter chatter on the course, over dinner, and in the bar afterwards, shows just what a friendly bunch we all are. This is the key ingredient to our golf society - having fun and making friends, with a few golf competitions thrown in to keep us striving for glory. The photos below show our winners Mark receiving his trophy from Bob Bradley and David receiving the Ian Brialey Cup. It is also great that we are sharing out the Nearest the Pin prizes right across the group with different winners so far this year. STOP PRESS: Trinity beat Old Whits 3 1/2 to 1 1/2 to retain The Putter Trophy. Our next outing is to Cottesmore but this magazine will have been printed before the results are known. However, you can see an update in the golf enthusiasts’ section of My Trinity (www.mytrinity.org.uk). Our final two fixtures are Captain’s Day at Farleigh GC in August and then Bearsted GC in September. If anyone would like to come and join us for either of these golf days, please email me at lk07@me.com for details. If you love golf, why not come and join us and meet up with old colleagues. We now have over 55 playing members and there will probably be someone you will know amongst the group. We are now planning our 2023 fixture list which will include some fabulous courses, some of them new to all of us. Laurie King Captain 2022 Email: lk07@me.com
Trinity Hockey I am pleased to share that we succeeded in playing an entire season uninterrupted by COVID. The pessimists amongst us were predicting more interruptions and possibly even another lockdown – but thankfully that did not happen. However, COVID lingers and did have an impact with the odd player or two having to isolate after testing positive. Thus, instead of the four teams we hoped to field, we found it was better to stay with three and ensure that each side had a full squad. On the pitch our teams performed well. The 1st XI finished 6th in their league. A good performance as we had a new skipper and several new players. I am delighted by the results of our 2nd XI who were promoted. A great achievement under the leadership of former pupil Al Clark and the 3rd XI just missed out on promotion led by Stuart Fairchild. In summary, from a playing perspective - a good season for the club! Success on the field was matched with success off the field. Our links with the school continue to strengthen. Not only do we have many former students playing but also several current members of staff and students playing Tom Brindley, Finn Baker, James Skinner, Toby Edwards, Nathanial Leggett and Zach Downey. The Colts meet on Sunday mornings at Trinity, and we have many younger pupils from the school who enjoy these sessions which are organised by former students Stuart Fairchild and Kevin Pacey. Additionally, we have commenced our outreach programme to introduce and coach hockey in local schools where it has not been played before. We are pleased to have been selected as the ‘hockey partner’ for two schools, Harris Academy Purley and St Peters’ Primary School. It has been particularly rewarding to our coaching team to introduce hockey to both these schools and see the engagement of the pupils. Looking forward, we have a full programme of summer matches and would welcome any students or members of staff who fancy a ‘run out’ in the summer sunshine. We are running both a Men’s XI and a Mixed XI. These are friendly games, and our intention is to field mixed ability teams. We also hope to start a competitive ladies team for the regular season and would welcome hearing from any current or former students who would be interested in helping with this initiative. If you are interested in supporting or joining any of our activities, please email Sanjay Bowry: Email: Sanjay.bowry@btinternet.com tsssc.co.uk/hockey
