Trinity University (Tx.) wins the D3 CWS

My son was blessed to have played for Coach Scannell and Trinity. The experienced changed his life in all the great ways that baseball can. Tim has built a terrific program with deep tradition and a sense of brotherhood that truely effects young men in the most positive ways. Tim and all the coaches that have built the program over the past 15+ years need to be both commended and thanked. 

Winning this years D3 world series is the culmination of lots of great kids, families and coaches that have helped create a program that should be admired by all. Great job!

Beautifully stated, infielddad! 

And congrats to Trinity! 

Awesome.  Congratulations to your family.

Congratulations to Trinity, and all the young men who have been part of building that program. It has been a long time coming. I am glad they finally broke through. 

My son and I did a visit there during his recruitment period. While my son ended up not going there due to an injury which he wanted to rehab at home, he and I found the coaching staff to be a class act and the program to be first rate. 

I could not be happier that they have completed the quest!!! Congrats to all if the players and staff - both current and past. 

Congrats to Trinity and its alumni family including; BOF, ILVBB, Infielddad and others.  That's awesome.

Congrats to the Trinity "family"...   What a great year.

I was pulling for Laroche,  my son had some former teammates on the team and a lot of local kids play there.

The Trinity celebration will deservedly go on for years!

Wow!!  This is awesome.  I've heard so many firsthand terrific stories from infielddad over the years about Coach Scannell and the Trinity program.  This is just wonderful!

Thanks infielddad and others who have followed or been part of this program. As Coach Scannell said in the news conference this has been a 20 year process building on each team from the prior years.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxndmCleRo

This was a long time coming for a great program that lost their title of "best program to not get to a CWS" last year and now "best program to not win a CWS", partially due some bad luck (seriously), but mostly for some great teams from Linfiield, Chapman, Whitworth, Pomona, Emory, WI Point, WI LaCrosse, and probably a few others that I missed.

Also congrats to Keystone in an amazing year for them to get to the championship series in their first trip to the CWS is pretty special.

Many of us close to the Trinity program thought that last year’s team was one that was going to win it all due to their balanced pitching, defense, and offense, but this year’s team showed that you can win a championship with offense and defense. Pitching to this team 1-9 was really tough for opponents. However, for all the talk about the offense, there were some amazing defensive plays and this was the critical difference this year IMO. How the Trinity shortstop Connor Moore was not on the gold glove list boggles my mind.

In the end it is really a mental grind for teams to get through the Regionals and CWS and make it to the end. Sure teams need talent, but the ones that get to the end have to have amazing mental toughness, and I think a lot of people (and players) maybe don’t realize how important this is. It really is a grind, especially when you throw in weather delays like they get in the Midwest this time of year.

It will be really sweet to see the Walnut and Bronze sitting in the lobby on my next trip to San Antonio.

For parents and players coming up, if your son is smart and has D1 talent (or is maybe a late bloomer and will develop into D1 talent) and wants to get a plus education add Trinity to your list. Coach Scannell and his team are pretty special to play for as others have noted. The pitching coach, Dave Smith has been on the cutting edge in developing pitchers for many years, Kyle Boddy at driveline (who I have a lot of respect for) was probably a kid when Coach Smith introduced weighted ball and similar programs their years ago. Finally it is also possible for a STEM major to play baseball at a high national level and be on the field as well as get a great education that is particularly difficult at most high performing D1 programs.

Congrats to the Tiger Nation, it was great to see the #tigerpile last night!

That is wonderful!!  So many of our members have personally gotten to experience their quest for the National Championship and the rest of us have gotten to live vicariously through their stories.  Huge congrats to all the kids and their families who have gone to Trinity as it is an experience shared by all.  It was Einstein who once said that he stood on the back of giants like Newton and Galileo.  So it is here with baseball.  The current team was built over the years and now have kicked the door down for the entire program. 

Congrats to Trinity.   Having learned close up and personal how tough and competitive d3 baseball can be at the elite levels, these guys should be really proud of what they've accomplished. 

BOF posted:

Thanks infielddad and others who have followed or been part of this program. As Coach Scannell said in the news conference this has been a 20 year process building on each team from the prior years.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxndmCleRo

This was a long time coming for a great program that lost their title of "best program to not get to a CWS" last year and now "best program to not win a CWS", partially due some bad luck (seriously), but mostly for some great teams from Linfiield, Chapman, Whitworth, Pomona, Emory, WI Point, WI LaCrosse, and probably a few others that I missed.

Also congrats to Keystone in an amazing year for them to get to the championship series in their first trip to the CWS is pretty special.

Many of us close to the Trinity program thought that last year’s team was one that was going to win it all due to their balanced pitching, defense, and offense, but this year’s team showed that you can win a championship with offense and defense. Pitching to this team 1-9 was really tough for opponents. However, for all the talk about the offense, there were some amazing defensive plays and this was the critical difference this year IMO. How the Trinity shortstop Connor Moore was not on the gold glove list boggles my mind.

In the end it is really a mental grind for teams to get through the Regionals and CWS and make it to the end. Sure teams need talent, but the ones that get to the end have to have amazing mental toughness, and I think a lot of people (and players) maybe don’t realize how important this is. It really is a grind, especially when you throw in weather delays like they get in the Midwest this time of year.

It will be really sweet to see the Walnut and Bronze sitting in the lobby on my next trip to San Antonio.

For parents and players coming up, if your son is smart and has D1 talent (or is maybe a late bloomer and will develop into D1 talent) and wants to get a plus education add Trinity to your list. Coach Scannell and his team are pretty special to play for as others have noted. The pitching coach, Dave Smith has been on the cutting edge in developing pitchers for many years, Kyle Boddy at driveline (who I have a lot of respect for) was probably a kid when Coach Smith introduced weighted ball and similar programs their years ago. Finally it is also possible for a STEM major to play baseball at a high national level and be on the field as well as get a great education that is particularly difficult at most high performing D1 programs.

Congrats to the Tiger Nation, it was great to see the #tigerpile last night!

Hey BOF,

I hope everything is going well with your family?  A friend of mine has a freshman son that was part of Tiger Nation this season from our home town....of course I thought about you and your son immediately,  pretty awesome for Trinity!  Congrats to the current & former players and coaches in the program. 

Hey BSBL nice to hear from you. I will send you a PM and catch up later in the week. It was great to see them finally break through, and was special for us since we knew all of the Sr's and their families. Something people would not notice but they wore their old jersey's for the championship game in as recognition to all of the former players in the program who they built this on. (they signed a contract with Nike last year and have new ones... many of which are pretty bad looking IMO, their pins they wore were the best looking from the previous group) They got back to the campus last night with a big crowd (even though school is out) and I say Coach Scannell being interviewed and he was already talking about recruiting this summer... the life of a coach, always rebuilding. Cheers.