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Celebrity Sighting
The 2009-2010 edition of the Trinity Basketball team has brought out many celebrities and local personalities this season. The list includes former NBA superstars and NCAA Championship coaches.
• 1978 NCAA Champion and former Kentucky coach Joe B. Hall
• Miami University Head Coach Charlie Coles
• Former NBA superstar Rex Chapman
• Former NBA star, former teammate of Michael Jordan and four-time NBA World Champion (1991, 1992, 1993, 1999) Will Perdue
• Former Louisville quarterback and current Trinity football assistant coach Oscar Brohm
• Recruiting analysts including Scout.com’s Evan Daniels and Louisville Courier-Journal’s Jody Demling
• Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway
• Seven members of Trinity’s 2004 regional championship team have seen the team play this season, including Bret Saxton, Kyle Saxton, Zach Berry, Brad Noe, Nick Hope, Jon Bufford and Robert Sampson. In addition, three former assistant coaches from the team have been in attendance this season.

Media Coverage
Trinity has appeared on television three times this season and multiple radio stations have covered the Shamrocks this season. The last time Trinity had a televised game before this season was the Jan. 26, 2007 game against St. Xavier on Insight. Prior to that, Trinity last overtime game was in 1998.
WYMT-TV televised Trinity’s game with Scott County while Wazoo Sports covered the games with Male and Lexington Catholic.
Trinity has broadcast two games via http://www.trinityrocks.com while games against Shelby County, Clark County and Lexington Catholic were broadcast by various outlets that normally cover the respective schools.

Rocks Named Team of the Week
Trinity was named the Team of the Week and head coach Mike Szabo was named Coach of the Week by the Voice-Tribune in the December 30, 2009 edition of the publication. It came on the heels of Trinity’s run through the King of the Bluegrass and Republic Bank Holiday Classic tournamet runs.

Sewell is Leading Mr. Basketball Candidate
Trinity senior guard Josh Sewell is a top candidate for the Mr. Basketball award in the state of Kentucky. He hopes to become the first player from Louisville to win the award since 2005 and the first to ever attend Miami (Ohio) following the receipt of the award.
• Sewell has claimed Most Valuable Player honors at the King of the Bluegrass and Republic Bank Holiday Classic.
• Sewell joined Chris Lofton as the only player to be Most Valuable Player of the both the King of the Bluegrass and Republic Bank Holiday Classic during their careers. Lofton won both awards in 2002 despite not winning the team title in the King of the Bluegrass. Lofton won the MVP of the Fifth Third Classic in 2002 and 2003.

Sewell ’10 is Top Candidate for Gatorade High School Player of the Year
Josh Sewell hopes to become the sixth player in school history and the first basketball player to be named a Gatorade High School Player of the Year in the state of Kentucky. Trinity has had one baseball winner, three soccer winners and one football winner.
Trever Miller ’91 won the baseball honor following the 1991 season. Brian Brohm ’04 won the football award following the 2003 season. John Michael Hayden ’01 won the 2000 soccer award while Nathan Marks ‘04 claimed the honor in 2003 and Darren Yeagle ’05 claimed in the honor in 2004.
According to the organization’s website, “In 1985, The Gatorade Company established an award honoring America’s elite high school student-athletes. Now in its third decade, the Gatorade Player of the Year award has become one of the most prestigious accolades in high school sports. The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one award-winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school boys football, girls volleyball, boys and girls crosscountry, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, boys baseball, girls softball and boys and girls track & field. The selection process for Gatorade State and National Players of the Year is administered by ESPN RISE, the multimedia high school division of ESPN, in partnership with The Gatorade Company. All final selection decisions are the result of a collaborative effort between ESPN RISE and The Gatorade Company. Amongst Gatorade Player of the Year award alumni, fans will discover names like Peyton Manning, Candace Parker, Alonzo Mourning and Lisa Leslie. These champions represent only a handful of exceptional talents who were first recognized by the Gatorade Player of the Year program before shining at the highest levels of competition. Over the past 24 years, more than 10,500 state and 200 national Players of the Year have been honored for their athletic excellence, academic achievement and exemplary character.”

Sewell Joins 1,000 Point Club
Senior Josh Sewell continues to post some impressive numbers in the scoring column and has positioned himself to become the school’s all-time leading scorer. Sewell currently has 1,153 career points in 97 games. Sewell registered 457 points last season in 30 games. It was the most points in a single season by a Trinity player since Tanner Jacobs had 493 points in 29 games during the 2006-07 season.
Sewell passed the 1,000 point mark with 1:21 remaining in the third quarter of a 69-46 win over McEachern (Georgia) in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Canfield Development King of the Bluegrass. Sewell finished the game with 19 points and 1,002 career points.
Previously, the most recent addition to the exclusive club was Kyle Saxton, who scored 1,148 points in three seasons between 2003 and 2005. Saxton became the seventh member of the club during the second quarter of the 2005 Louisville Invitational Tournament Championship game on a free throw that completed a four-point play. He finished that game with 1,016 career points. He posted 441 points during his senior campaign, averaging 13.8 points per contest in 32 games.
• Josh Sewell netted a career high 31 points against Jeffersontown on Feb. 13, 2009. It was the most points by a Trinity player since Tanner Jacobs had 31 points vs. Clay County on Dec. 21, 2006. It was the second most points by a Trinity player under Szabo. Chris McCoy holds the best mark in the Szabo era, scoring 36 points against Male on Dec. 17, 2002 in an overtime loss.