Alumni News

The December edition of Trinity News is available online, with printed copies distributed via the students in the final week of Term 4.   A sneak peek of what’s inside: The Power of Unsupervised Play: A deep dive into the benefits of free play for a child’s development. Renewal Project Update: the latest developments in [...]

Tane Edmed’s (’18) debut for the Wallabies lasted just three minutes before a head knock in a crushing tackle forced him out of Australia’s thrilling finale against Ireland in Dublin. The 24-year-old fly-half was brought into the fray off the bench in the 74th minute with the Wallabies three points down and the Test still [...]

Be as approachable as possible and say yes to everything – that’s the advice Trinity’s outgoing School Captain has passed on to his successor. “When I was in the younger years I found the School Captains pretty intimidating,” Luca Gillard (13St) said in a chat with 2025 Captain Leo Vo (12WH). “So I tried to [...]

He came back to Trinity to honour the father he never knew.  Donald Gould (’59) was just two years old when his dad’s Lancaster bomber was shot down by German anti-aircraft guns over Eindhoven on February 21, 1945.  Francis Gould (’34), one of 44 Trinitarians to have died serving their country in war, never came [...]

Davo Hickey (’17) has been selected in the Australian senior squad for the first time for this month’s FIBA Asia Cup basketball qualifiers. The Illawarra Hawks guard hopes to make his Boomers debut against Thailand on November 21 or hosts Korea three days later in qualifiers for next year’s tournament in Saudi Arabia. The Wiradjuri [...]

Tane Edmed's (’18) dream of representing the Wallabies has come true with his selection for Australia’s spring tour of Europe. The fly-half owed his place in the 34-man touring squad to excellent form for the Waratahs as well as North Harbour in New Zealand’s provincial competition, where he went for extra game time and finished as [...]

Old Boys on show in “surreal” comeback   As a kid, Randall Sinnamon would play for hours in the Woollamia bush that is now part of Trinity’s Field Studies Centre on the NSW south coast.  As a boarder, he travelled to Sydney to live and study at the main Summer Hill campus in the 1980s.  As [...]

Why AI can’t replace humans  Creative and critical thinking are becoming the most valued skills in the jobs market, and therefore among the most prized talents to take from school into the outside world.  That was the message to current scholars from a former scholar – ex-School Captain and Dux, Joel Gibson (’95).  Creative thinking [...]

Mateship – it’s invaluable in everyday life, and often decisive in places like the battlefield and the sporting field. But what about the journey to the examination room?  The answer is a resounding yes, according to three of Trinity’s latest academic high achievers.  Their conviction that mutual help and friendship lifts results, as well as [...]

Year 10 careers survey kick-starts medical career  Bill Zhu (’19), who has won a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to study dementia in the US, recalls his journey into neuroscience starting with a careers questionnaire at Trinity in Year 10.  “I remember distinctly the survey telling me that medicine was one of the top ten career pathways [...]