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Meet our Head Coaches

Fall Athletic Program Heads

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  • Sam Mickens

    Football
    Sam Mickens has been program head for Titan Football since 2012. Mickens is a former Division III college football player at Montclair State University and previously worked and coached at Seton Hall Prep in West Orange, NJ. Under his direction, Titan Football has won two DII VISAA state championships (2014 and 2015); Mickens was named state coach of the year in those same seasons. Coach Mickens brings a wealth of knowledge about the sport and the college recruiting process. Sam also serves as the Leadership Gifts Officer since July 1, 2023 on our Advancement Team. 
     
  • Ellis Mumford ’16

    Boys & Girls Cross Country
    Ellis Mumford is in her 4th season as a Trinity coach, and second as the program head, and has also served as an assistant with the girls soccer team. As cross country coach, Mumford is a strong proponent of youth and amateur sports as it helps to develop the “whole person” and stresses resilience and community to her teams. 

    Mumford is also a Trinity alumna who played soccer, indoor track, and cross country during her time at Trinity. She attended Randolph-Macon College where she was a member of the women's soccer team including winning the 2019 ODAC Championship. She recently completed her doctorate of occupational therapy at Virginia Commonwealth University. 
  • Brian Phillips

    Boys Soccer
    Brian Phillips has been at Trinity for over three decades. He has been the program head for boys soccer since 1996, during which time the team has earned a reputation for its strong character, earning the Prep League’s Sportsmanship Award in nearly every season. In 2018, he guided the boys to an unlikely VISAA State Tournament run, where the 11th-seeded Titans advanced to the semifinals. In 2022 he lead the Titans to a State Runner-Up title.  Coach Phillips also serves at the theatre director and head of campus life.
  • Alicia Raymond

    Girls Tennis
    Alicia Raymond joined Trinity in the fall of 2019 as assistant athletic director. She holds a master’s degree in English from Longwood University, where she was also a Division I tennis player. She completed her educational licensure program at The University of Richmond. She has worked in independent schools since 2012 — teaching English and coaching tennis, swimming, cross country and track & field — including four years of athletic administration at St. Catherine’s School in Richmond and three years at Darlington School in Rome, GA. In addition to her role as program head of girls tennis, Raymond also teaches sections of English 8. 
  • Margie Vaughan Snead ’85

    Field Hockey and Girls Lacrosse
    Margie Snead graduated from William & Mary in 1989 and currently serves as Trinity’s director of admission and program head for both the girls lacrosse and field hockey teams. While at William & Mary, Snead was a four-year contributor to both the soccer and lacrosse teams and finished her senior season as a team captain in both sports. Snead was a two-time All-American lacrosse player (1988 and 1989) and earned a spot on the US National Team in 1989. Inducted into William & Mary’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012, Snead is one of 17 W&M lacrosse players to earn multiple All-American honors. 

    Trinity Field Hockey has won five LIS Championships in a row along with VISAA state titles in 2015 and 2018  Coach Snead has several Coach of the Year accolades.

    Coach Snead ’85, her husband Billy Snead ’85 and two daughters, Annie Snead ’16 and Sally Snead ’19, are all Trinity alums.
  • Steve VanHuss

    Volleyball
    Steve VanHuss graduated from Bridgewater College in 1978 with a degree in health and physical education and has coached at Trinity for three years.  VanHuss has been involved with the sport of volleyball at the high school, club or USA volleyball level for over 30 years. His implementation of a rigorous off-season optional training program, including beach volleyball in the summers, has propelled Titan Volleyball to a higher level of performance.

Winter Athletic Program Heads

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  • Andrew Blazar

    Boys Basketball
    Blazar comes to Trinity with a great deal of experience as the head coach of the boys basketball program at James River High School for the past five years with prior positions at The Steward School and Glen Allen High School. During his time at James River, Blazar led the Rapids to their first ever Regional Championship and two state tournament appearances. He was named Regional Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2019. 
     
    Blazar graduated from the University of Richmond with a degree in finance while also serving as a student manager for the basketball team. He has also taught math for the past eleven years. Blazar currently lives in Midlothian with his wife, Kelsey, and their daughter, Isla Kate.
     
    “I feel honored and privileged to have been selected as the seventh program head for boys basketball in the school’s history,” said Blazar. “The mission of the school aligns perfectly with my personal and professional values. I am committed to the school and its goals of running a first class program that performs both on the court, as well as in the classroom and in the community.”
  • Adam Lonon

    Girls Basketball
    Adam Lonon has led the girls basketball program since 2017. In his first two seasons his team has captured back-to-back Times-Dispatch Invitational Tournament (TDIT) Championships and made it to the VISAA State Quarterfinals twice. As a player, Lonon was a standout at the Steward School before playing Division I basketball at Virginia Military Institute. Lonon coached the girls basketball team at Steward from 2011-2016. A certified strength and conditioning coach, Lonon supports the Titan athletic program by running training exercises for boys and girls teams across all three seasons. In the offseason, Lonon runs an independent basketball skills academy, Adam Lonon Basketball.
  • Tim Johnson

    Swim and Dive
    Tim Johnson took over as Trinity swim and dive program head in 2018, following five years as an assistant coach to both Alice Phillips and Ashley Tremper. Coach Johnson has worked hard to implement and maintain the unique culture of the Trinity swim team that prides itself on fervent team spirit. He earned his BA at Virginia Military Institute and a master’s in education from Regent University. In the swimming world, he has served as Head Coach at Richmond Christian, Settlers Landing and, most recently, the Watermill Waveriders Swimming Club. He currently teaches Social Studies at Midlothian High School.

Spring Athletic Program Heads

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  • Andy Bender

    Golf
    Andy Bender is the head golf pro at Salisbury Country Club.  Born and raised in Midlothian, and began playing golf at the age of 4. After playing four years of varsity golf at Clover Hill High School, he attended Radford University for business management. After college, he became a PGA Class A Professional in August 2012 and has been working at Salisbury Country Club for 14 years. Coach Bender has vaulted Titan Golf among the top programs in the state of Virginia for independent schools.
  • Dave Daly

    Boys Lacrosse
    Hailing from Hicksville, NY, Coach Daly played collegiately at Molloy College where he was a two-time Team Captain, two-time Academic All-Conference and a three-time All-NYCAC player.  He previously assisted at Guilford College, Randolph-Macon College before joining the staff at Trinity Episcopal School.

    “It is an honor and privilege to be a part of the Titan family,” says Daly. “I am looking forward to assisting our student athletes in finding their path while becoming great people. My family and I are excited to be a part of this amazing community and to work with all of the Titan student athletes. We will continue to build on this program's excellent foundation with a focus on team culture, hard work and accountability.”


  • Christy Darlington

    Softball
    Christy Darlington has been at Trinity since 2004 and has been softball program head since 2010. Darlington has coached locally in the Storm and Rampage travel organizations. With a focus on a team culture of mutual respect, camaraderie and athletic growth, Darlington hopes to improve on a No. 6 finish in the state from the 2019 season, the highest since she took over the team. In 2023 Christy lead the Titans to an incredible LIS championship, culminating in a top 3 placement for the Titans over the last three years. She was also named Coach of the year for the league. 

    Darlington is a graduate of Longwood University, where she studied biology and psychology, both subjects she teaches here at Trinity. She is the proud parent of two Trinity alumni, Becca ’10 and Shelby ’12.
  • Rick Hamlin ’96 

    Girls Soccer 
    Now in his 20th year teaching at Trinity, Rick Hamlin has headed the girls soccer program since 2005. In each of the last 12 years, the Trinity girls team has advanced to the state tournament (one of only two programs to accomplish this), and has had a winning record each year. Coach Hamlin seeks to foster a program with a family atmosphere. He stresses individual skill development, competitiveness, character development, and fun. Coach Hamlin was named LIS coach of the year in 2008, 2015 and 2019. 

    A graduate of the University of Virginia, Hamlin teaches classes in western civilization and US history and views athletics as a vehicle for education. He is also head coach for both boys JV soccer and boys varsity basketball. A member of Trinity’s Athletic Hall of Fame as an athlete, Coach Hamlin was a three-year varsity starter on the TES soccer team. He still enjoys playing in an adult recreational league.
  • Damian Sancilio

    Boys Tennis
    Trinity welcomes Damian Sancilio as the varsity men's tennis coach.  Damian is the current tennis director at Midlothian Athletic Club and founder and director of Sancilio Tennis Academy.  Sancilio has two boys who will play on the team and is committed to pursuing a state title for the school.  A graduate of the University of Virginia, where he played number two singles and was elected team captain.  He is also a two-time Richmond City Men's Singles Champion and has been inducted into the Richmond Tennis Hall of Fame and the Douglas Freeman High School Hall of Fame for his achievements. As a coach, he trained world ranked WTA player Sabine Hack who reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 1994 and and was ranked #13 in the world under his guidance.  Sancilio also traveled the world for 6 years as the head coach for the Kuwait Davis Cup team before returning to Richmond to start a family and establish the Sancilio Tennis Academy where he has coached many national juniors who went on to play college tennis.   
  • Margie Vaughan Snead ’85

    Girls Lacrosse  
    Margie Snead graduated from William & Mary in 1989 and currently serves as Trinity’s director of admission and program head for both the girls lacrosse and field hockey teams. While at William & Mary, Snead was a four-year contributor to both the soccer and lacrosse teams and finished her senior season as a team captain in both sports. Snead was a two-time All-American lacrosse player (1988 and 1989) and earned a spot on the US National Team in 1989. Inducted into William & Mary’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012, Snead is one of 17 W&M lacrosse players to earn multiple All-American honors. 

    Coach Snead has led our Girls Lacrosse program to 7 Division II LIS Championships.

    Coach Snead ’85, her husband Billy Snead ’85 and two daughters, Annie Snead ’16 and Sally Snead ’19, are all Trinity alums.