Trinity hires alums as new coaches

Molly Welch

TRINITY — Molly Welch will be the new girls’ basketball coach at Trinity following the tenure of coach Michael Sink.

Welch, a 2008 Trinity graduate, is a former assistant coach for the program from 2009-11 under her mother, Renee Croker Hayes.

The Bulldogs are coming off an 8-17 season under coach Michael Sink. The team’s last winning season came in 2016-17.

Welch has been back at Trinity since 2023 in various positions, including girls’ golf coach. She coached girls’ basketball at the middle school level.

The appointment of Welch was one of several announced for Trinity teams. Each of the three teams that Sink coached will have new leadership.

** Longtime boys’ soccer assistant coach and former player Nathan Sink becomes the head coach of the team. Sink, the former head coach’s son, has been an assistant coach since 2008.

He graduated from Trinity in 2002.

The team went 15-6-3 last year.

** Zack Brown will be the girls’ soccer coach, moving up from assistant coach. This year, Bulldogs had a 9-11-1 record, including a loss on the record for a forfeit in a game they won on the field.

Brown, a former Southwestern Randolph coach, has been on the Trinity coach staff for the past three seasons.

Brown also is girls’ tennis coach at Trinity, where he graduated from in 2005. He previously coached junior varsity soccer at Trinity.

By Randolph Record