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Trinity College (CT) Men's Soccer iNformation Page

The NESCAC

We play in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). The NESCAC is widely known as the top DIII soccer league in the country. Our league typically sends 4-5 teams to the NCAA tournament every year...far more than any other conference. In 4 of the past 5 years, the National Champion has come from our league. The NESCAC is not for everyone as it is separated from the rest of Division III as far as level of play is concerned, but also every school is considered to be a high academic institution!

The NESCAC is made up of 11 schools: Amherst, Colby, Connecticut College, Bates, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Wesleyan, Williams and Tufts.

Tradition

Our program has not been as strong over the past few seasons. However, traditionally we are a team that is ranked in the NCAA Top 25 poll. We are looking to bring the program back to that level and our players are working hard this off season to elevate the program back to the top. Our goal is to win a National Title as soon as we can and that is where our recruiting efforts are currently taking us. --However, we are only able to recruit highly motivated students as Trinity is a great place of higher education!

As far as our style goes, we try and play. We try for combinations in the final third and we aim to build out of the back and play with the ball on the ground. We had a great freshman class this past fall who contributed greatly to the program..and we are re-loading with another great class coming in again for the fall of 2021...We are looking to create yet another class that is just as good so we can go to an NCAA Final Four..It is a great time to join the program!

Beating the #3 ranked Williams College in OT.

Our Game Field

Our game field is in a convenient location in the middle of campus, which draws great crowds for home contests.

We also have one of the few natural grass fields in all of Division III that has lights.

Weight Training

The strength and conditioning program used at Trinity College is a “Hybrid Training” model. This means we use an assortment of training styles that meet the requirement of being orthopedically safe and physiologically sound. The entire body must be trained in a comprehensive manner with no exercise overemphasized or underemphasized. The program revolves around the use of ground-based, multi-jointed movement patterns during the weight training portion of the program while concurrently addressing the specific metabolic demands of each sport.

After a break after the season, the guys get into the weight room 3 times a week with a full time lifting coach. They also go outside on the track with him once a week as well for conditioning.

Hartford, Connecticut

Trinity College isn’t located in a small town. We are in a thriving capital city. Though our close-knit campus is quintessentially collegiate, we’re unmistakably located in an urban environment. It’s where we work, where we intern, where we shop and eat, where we volunteer, and where we live. Hartford is in our bones. It makes us who we are.

Our city roots run so deep that we founded an innovative Center for Urban and Global Studies to study city life around the world. So while some students travel to the megacities of China and others stay right here in Hartford, every Trinity student is made stronger and more world ready by experiencing the city.

Head Coach Mike Pilger

Coach Pilger just completed his 15th year at Trinity.

Coach Pilger is a 1982 graduate of Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education, where he was an all-conference and an all-New England player throughout his career. He went on to play professionally for six years.

Coach Pilger has also coached at Kenyon College (1988-1991), University of Rochester (1992-2001) and Case Western Reserve (2004). He also coached in the professional ranks with the Cleaveland Crunch of the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Coach Pilger has guided teams to undefeated seasons and has been named conference coach of the year on several different occasions. In 1990 he was named DIII National Coach of the year.

Contact Information: Michael.Pilger@trincoll.edu

If you are interested in being recruited by the program please fill out our recruiting questionnaire.