The Man Himself: Col. Tom Hanzel
Colonel Tom Hanzel coached the Trinity Trap and Skeet teams from 1970-1985, and was also the founder of the program. Hanzel was a retired a retired Air Force officer, a well distinguished shooter, and guided Trinity to four national collegiate team championships in 1975, 1976, 1977, and again three years later in 1980. In addition, the colonel had a number of individual shooters who won National Skeet Shooting Association World Championships. Six shooters under Coach Hanzel are currently in the National Skeet Shooting Association (NSSA) Hall of Fame and he himself was inducted in the NSSA and Texas Skeet Shooters Hall of Fame in 1981. Coach Hanzel as a shooter captured 19 world individual titles, and earned 40 All-America ratings from various trap and skeet shooting associations including being named a member of the Senior All-America teams from 1977-1982. The coach also held the senior division world record with a score of 397 out of 400, a feat he accomplished in 1979. Coach Hanzel's teams through out his 15 year career managed to win 13 national collegiate team and individual titles. The colonel died on August 1, 2001 and went on to be inducted into the Trinity Hall of Fame in 2007.