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Quick Notes

  • Trinity International gets the conference season underway this weekend, when they welcome the Robert Morris Eagles to Schartner Field on Saturday.
 • Streaming video and live stats of Saturday's match will be available at TIUTrojans.com/LIVE
 • The Trojans are looking to snap a three-match slide, as the team works to end a scoring drought over the last 306 minutes.
 • Senior Marta Sobey and sophomore Heather Ortiz are currently tied for the team lead with one goal apiece. Isabelle Danner has one assist on the year to lead the Trojans.
 • Trinity have earned three straight trips to the NAIA National Tournament, and are the defending CCAC Tournament champions, having won the conference title two of the last three years.
 • Trinity has now recorded 13 or more wins in the past four seasons, and three consecutive appearances in the NAIA Women's Soccer National Championship.
• The Trojans are averaging 0.33 goals per match this season, ranking 13th in the CCAC. Robert Morris holds the second-highest average in the league, with 2.25 goals per match. Defensively, Trinity holds a goals-against average of 1.83, 8th-best in the CCAC, while Robert Morris ranks 3rd, at 1.12.

Last Time Out

 • A defensive battle throughout, Trinity International suffered a shutout in their third straight match Saturday, falling on the road to No. 14 Campbellsville (Ky.), 1-0.
 • Just 12 shots were taken between both sides, with sophomore Jillian Kolster taking a team-high three for the Trojans, with one of the team's two shots on goal.
 •  Campbellsville took the lead in the 38th minute, when CU's Madison Kennedy collected a rebound off a saved shot and put it away for the 1-0 score.

Series History

 • The Trojans and Eagles have met 13 times since 2007, with RMU holding an 8-3-2 lead in the series.
 • The Trojans have taken two of the last three meetings, including a CCAC Tournament semifinal contest in 2013, but Robert Morris earned a 1-0 win last season in Arlington Heights.

In the Polls

 • Trinity earned 17 votes in the NAIA Preseason Coaches Poll, becoming one of nine programs to receive votes but fall short of the top 25.
 • The Trojans finished last season ranked No. 19 in the 2015 Postseason Poll, their highest-ever rank in the postseason rankings which debuted in 2012.
 • Trinity earned a national ranking in each of the past two Preseason Polls, starting last season at No. 17, and coming in at No. 25 in 2014.
 • TIU has earned a national rank at some point during each of the past four seasons, reaching as high as No. 17 in 2015.
 • TIU has been ranked in the Preseason Poll eight times in program history, since the poll began in 1999. (2000-2002, 2007, 2012-15)

Scouting the Opponents

Robert Morris

 • The Eagles have started the season 2-0-2, and are coming off back-to-back 1-1 draws against Madonna (Mich.) and #16 Siena Heights (Mich.).
 • Demy Whitaker is tied for 3rd in the CCAC with seven points so far this year, off of two goals and conference-best three assists.
 • Three players are tied for the team lead in goals, with Whitaker, Brooke Kenney, and Karen Santos each with two apiece.
• Defensively, goalkeeper Adrienne Giglio ranks 2nd in the CCAC with a 0.92 goals-against average.

Hall of Fame

 • Head coach Patrick Gilliam was inducted into the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Hall of Fame, during the associationís Hall of Fame Banquet as part of the NCCAA Annual Convention in June.
 • Gilliam was one of two inductees in the class of 2016, and the first representative from Trinity ever to be included into the NCCAA Hall of Fame.
 • With a career record of 290-123-21 (.692), Gilliam is currently the second-winningest active coach in the NAIA.

National Leaders

 • Junior goalkeeper Surina Lewandowski ranks 4th in the CCAC and 27th in the NAIA, with a total of 33 saves made this season. The Trojans rank 31st nationally in total saves, with Lewandowski in goal for 450 minutes this season.

Champions of Character

 • In 2015, Trinity International earned the Karl Boeck Conference Champions of Character Award for the fifth consecutive year. Entering this weekend, the Trojans have gone seven straight seasons without a single red card.
 • Over the past two seasons, TIU has been charged with only three yellow cards over 41 matches, for the lowest per-match average in the CCAC.

Up Next

 • Trinity continues CCAC action next Tuesday, September 20, when they travel to St. Xavier. Kickoff against the Cougars is set for 6:00 p.m.