August 02, 2023
CHICAGO — Five members of Trine University’s bridge team traveled to Chicago with Coach Chester Pinkham to compete in the 2023 Collegiate Bridge Bowl.
The event, held July 20-22 in the ballrooms of the Sheraton Grand Hotel, featured 13 college bridge teams.
Trine’s contingent included Trenton Sederstrom, an actuarial science major from Cedar Lake, Indiana; Ryan Hoak, a civil engineering major from Warsaw, Indiana; Isaac Braun, a chemical engineering major from Portland, Indiana; Cameron Orr, a Master of Business Administration student from Angola, Indiana; and Ethan Merkle, a computer and information technology major from Muncie, Indiana.
The students played in team games at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. July 20, and individual games in the evening, with sessions lasting about three hours.
On Friday they played in a pairs event. Hoak and Merkle had the best finish, placing third in their flight.
Hoak also was able to play a game with James Holzhauer, who had a 32-game winning streak on the game show Jeopardy!, as his partner. The game took place on Hoak’s 20th birthday.
The 2024 Collegiate Bridge Bowl will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society recently named Trine University pre-med biology student Lauren Hillin of Charlotte, North Carolina, its Foy-Sagabiel Undergraduate Scholar Leader of the Year.
Two Trine University students — Chloe Laird, a chemical engineering major from Warsaw, Indiana, and Makenzie Amich, a forensic science major from Thorntown, Indiana — recently had the opportunity to connect with thousands of chemistry professionals and students from across the country at the American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting in Chicago.
Whodunit? It’s a question board game players have asked for decades, and Trine Theatre patrons will have the opportunity to make their own deductions when “Clue” takes the Ryan Concert Hall stage of the T. Furth Center for Performing Arts.