Hartford, Conn., June 15, 2011 – Trinity College women’s squash and women’s tennis announces that current assistant coach for both teams, Joanne Schickerling (Pretoria, South Africa), has been elevated from a graduate assistant coach to full-time assistant coach.
Schickerling has more than ably served as the graduate assistant for Head Coach Wendy Bartlett for the past two-plus seasons, after coming to Trinity from Indiana State University where she was a varsity tennis player.
Bartlett has coached both teams for the last 27 seasons, compiling a 296-88 record, including national championship titles in 2002 and 2003, and a 194-131-1 tennis record with four NCAA appearances.
The Trinity women’s squash team posted a 14-4 overall record and won its fifth straight New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship title. The Bantams were selected for the College Squash Association (CSA) National Team Championship Tournament (Howe Cup) for the 16th straight season, advancing to the semifinals with a 7-2 win over Stanford in the quarterfinal round.
Trinity lost a 6-3 match to Harvard before closing the season with a 5-4 road defeat against Princeton in the Third Place Match. The Bantam women finished the 2010-11 campaign with a 9-7 record and a 4-3 record against NESCAC teams. Trinity qualified for the NESCAC Championship Tournament for the third consecutive season and for the fourth time in the last five years, dropping a 5-0 match against Tufts in the opening round.
“This newly-created, endowed position will allow Joanne to devote herself full-time to recruiting and coaching our student-athletes,” said Bartlett.
“Current and future Trinity squash and tennis players will benefit greatly from having two full-time people available to them on a daily basis. Joanne gave our program a tremendous lift when she arrived here in 2008 due to her high level of playing experience in both sports. She is self-motivated, hard-working and conscientious, and interacts fabulously with our athletes.”
Schickerling a 2008 graduate of Indiana State with a degree in exercise science, is also a highly-skilled squash player and a certified 1 level coach in her native country of South Africa. She was a three-time No. 1 doubles champion and the 2008 No. 2 singles champion in the Missouri Valley Conference while at Indiana State, where she also earned numerous academic honors and was twice named to the all-conference team.
Schickerling, who has played tennis professionally on the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Tour since 2009, will continue to pursue a master's degree at Trinity.
“I am honored to receive this promotion to full-time status for Trinity women’s squash and tennis,” said Schickerling. “My experience working with Coach Bartlett and with some of the elite athletes in Division III tennis and collegiate squash has been rewarding and exciting. I believe that this new position will help us attain an even higher level of success going forward.”
From David Kingsley
Director of Sports Communications
Trinity College
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