April 30, 2024
Three pairs from Trine University’s Bridge Club competed the National American Contract Bridge League's online collegiate bridge tournament on April 21.
Cameron Orr, an MBA student from Angola, Indiana, and Isaac Braun, a chemical engineering major from Portland, Indiana, placed first in the competition’s C flight in the second round.
The other Trine pairs were Treyton Sederstrom, an actuarial science major from Cedar Lake, Indiana, and Ryan Hoak, a civil engineering major from Warsaw, Indiana, and Alex Kratzer, a mechanical engineering major from Elkhart, Indiana, and Christopher Shively, an accounting major from Churubusco, Indiana.
Twenty-two pairs total took part in the event. The teams played 24 rounds, took a meal break, then played another 24 rounds.
Trine’s team will compete in the North American Bridge Championship from July 25-27 in Toronto.
Trine University has named longtime assistant vice president for athletics and athletic director Matt Land as its new vice president for advancement as part of the transition to the upcoming presidency of Tony Kline, Ph.D.
The Trine University Theatre production of “Midsummer/Jersey,” a hilarious high-octane re-telling of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” set on the boardwalk of a seaside town in modern-day New Jersey, opens at 7 p.m. Thursday on the stage of the Ryan Concert Hall in the T. Furth Center for Performing Arts.
Laci Roy, a Trine University sophomore from Ligonier, Indiana, majoring in biology, was one of 28 first-generation Indiana college students named as a “Realizing the Dream” recipient by Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI).