Trinity Basketball Coaching Staff
Mr Ben Morrissey
1sts Basketball Head Coach
Director of Basketball Coaching
MIC Basketball
Sports Centre Manager
Assistant Sportsmaster (winter)
Ben has now been charge of Trinity Grammar’s Basketball program for well over a decade
where he has enjoyed great success coaching the 1sts to eight CAS premierships. On top of
that he has taken Trinity to the NSW All Schools ‘Semi Finals’ in 2003 and also seen Trinity
reach the NSW CIS Cup Final five times, winning in 2003. Ben has also organised four
Development tours to the United States and built Basketball to be the largest sport in the
School.
Born in Wollongong, Ben represented NSW at U/16, U/18 and U/20 level captaining his
state on three occasions. He also gained All Australian U/18 selection in two consecutive
years. His senior career began in Sydney when he was only 18 playing in the National
Basketball League for West Sydney Westars and then in the inaugural season with the
Sydney Kings in 1988. Ben returned to his hometown to play with the Illawarra Hawks for
another three seasons which included two trips to the USA playing against some of NCAA
top colleges, before taking up a position with Channel Ten Sport in the Illawarra covering
the NBL as sideline commentator. He also spent some time playing in the SEBL League with
the Sydney Comets and West Sydney Slammers.
His coaching career began with Nazareth College, Bankstown where he guided them to
back-to-back National Schools Championships in 1986 and 1987. Heading back to
Wollongong Ben coached Edmund Rice College to their first NSW All Schools Championship
in 1993. Since returning to Sydney in 1999 to work at Trinity, he has been an Assistant Coach
with the 2001 NSW Metro under 16 Men’s Team. Then he spent three seasons (2002 - 2004)
as an Assistant Coach with the Sydney Comets A.B.A. Waratah League Men’s Team. During
that time they won the Waratah title on all three occasions and in 2003 and 2004 made it to
the Australian Basketball Association National Semi Finals. Ben then took up the Head
Coaching role with the Bankstown Bruins A.B.A. Team where he led them to their first ever
Waratah League Semi Final appearance in 2005 and then again in 2006.
Mr Chris Barnes
1sts Basketball Assistant Coach
Housemaster
History & IB Teacher
MIC AFL
Chris has been a senior coach in the GPS/CAS school systems for 10 years. He Coached
Shore School's 2nds team to two championships, and also coaching the firsts to back-toback Championships. At one time his record stood at 30 wins without a loss after three
undefeated seasons across the Firsts and Seconds. During his time at Shore he also fulfilled
the role of Master in Charge of Basketball and Director of Coaching. For his role in these
successful programs, he received the Beaufighter's Medallion for contributions to the
School. He has been the co-coach of the Representative GPS 1sts and 2nds. After two years
of playing and coaching in the Peruvian University competition, Chris returned to Sydney to
work at Trinity and in his first season with the School in 2008 he coached the Trinity 2nds to
their inaugural CAS Premiership and then three successive winning seasons with the 2nds. In
2011 Chris joined Ben Morrissey to work with the 1sts where they have enjoyed great
success winning CAS Premierships in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
As a player Chris represented NSW at the National Championships, twice as an under 16
player and twice as an under 18 player. Playing for Manly for fifteen years, he won the State
Championship in 1993 and went on to represent Manly at both the Youth League and State
league level for 5 years. As a schoolboy Basketball representative, he was selected as part of
the NSW CHS and NSW All Schools teams. In his final years as a player he was part of the
Sydney Kings Youth Team in the CBA and the Western Sydney Razorbacks reserves also in
the CBA.
Mr Ben Treloar
2nds Basketball Head Coach
Middle school Housemaster
Technology & DesignTeacher
MIC Snow Sports
Ben has been a member of staff since 2008, after completing a Bachelor of Education
(Design and Technology) at Sydney University he was placed as a Technology and Design
teacher. He quickly became part of the Basketball coaching staff and began developing
players in the Middle School. In 2009 he successfully coached the Trinity 9As to an
undefeated Premiership and he also became part of the Specialist Basketball program. In
2010 Ben become the assistant coach of the 2nds to Chris Barnes. In 2011 Ben became the
Coach for the 2nds and remains in that role currently.
Ben attended Newington College from year 7 to 12 and played Basketball right through high
school. In Year 10, Ben became the captain of the 2nds Basketball team that was successful
with an 8-2 season. In his final years of year 11 and 12 Ben played in the 1sts Basketball
team and was a member of the starting five in his final season.