Wartburg College Alumni & Parent Relations

One of the most successful female athletes to compete for Wartburg College was Trina Steines. Steines, now Trina Kuh-Nucky, was Wartburg College’s first female National champion in any sport. Kuh-Nucky claimed that honor when she won the NCAA Division-Three outdoor 800-meter run title. Kuh-Nucky had a banner career for the Knights in Track and Field and Cross Country. Kuh-Nucky was a 10-time indoor and outdoor Iowa Conference track champion in the 800 and 1500, a seven-time indoor and outdoor track All-American and a three-time All-Iowa Conference Cross-Country selection. She was also a top-ten finalist for the 1998 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

Trina, a Calamus native, chose Wartburg as she liked the campus, the small college atmosphere and she received an academic scholarship. She felt Wartburg was always her home away from home.
Trina felt the encouragement and confidence she received from Coach Steve Johnson was one of the reasons for her success. While she had a solid prep career at Calamus-Wheatland, even she is surprised by how successful she was at Wartburg. Winning the National Championship in the 800 in St. Paul, Minnesota her junior year was by far the biggest highlight of her Knights career.
A Marketing-Management Major, Trina lives in Calamus. She’s been the marketing manager at First Trust and Savings Bank in Grand Mound for the last nine-years. She and her husband James have been married since 1999 and have a 6-year old son Chase and a 3-year old daughter Courtney. Still an avid track fan, for the last seven years Trina was the Girl’s Track coach at Calamus-Wheatland.

Trina felt her participation in athletics at Wartburg held her to develop a strong work ethic, be self-disciplined and become goal oriented.

On October 17th Trina will be inducted into the Wartburg Athletic Hall of Fame.