{"id":1487,"date":"2014-10-08T10:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/ebuckhor\/?page_id=1339"},"modified":"2014-10-08T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:05:46","slug":"coaches-join-trinity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2014\/athletics\/coaches-join-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaches join Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity College Director of Athletics Michael Renwick has announced the hiring of Carlos Vega as its new head men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving coach and three-year Bantam assistant Katy Dissinger as the new head women\u2019s lacrosse coach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/internet2.trincoll.edu\/facProfiles\/Photos\/1480077.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/>Vega comes to Trinity after several successful years as an assistant coach at Amherst College, Kalamazoo College, and Wellesley College, where he played a major role in the resurgence of the Blue program over the last four years.\u00a0He is a 2003 graduate of perennial swimming powerhouse Kenyon College, where he was a 19-time all-conference selection, a two-time conference swimmer of the year, and an 11-time All-American honoree and won five NCAA titles.\u00a0He also earned a master\u2019s in sport management from the University of Massachusetts. He will be an assistant professor in the Trinity Athletic Department.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/internet2.trincoll.edu\/facProfiles\/Photos\/1447040.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/>Dissinger, the 2012 IWLCA National Assistant Coach of the Year, has played a significant role in Trinity\u2019s unprecedented run to the last three NCAA Division III Championship Finals, including an NCAA Championship season in 2012.\u00a0Also a participant in the 2011 NCAA Final Four as a captain for Bowdoin College\u2019s squad, Dissinger replaces Kate Livesay, who resigned after the 2014 season. At Bowdoin, Dissinger starred at center midfielder and earned IWLCA All-Regional honors twice and received the program\u2019s Ellen Tiemer Trophy for excellence in lacrosse. Dissinger, who earned a master\u2019s in public policy at Trinity, will also serve as an assistant professor in the College\u2019s Athletic Department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity College Director of Athletics Michael Renwick has announced the hiring of Carlos Vega as its new head men\u2019s and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1466,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1487\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}