The Trinity Bantams Men's Squash team is the intercollegiate men's

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team for

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located in

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. The team competes in the

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within the

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. The college first fielded a team in 1941, making it one of the oldest college squash teams in the United States. Moustafa Hamada is the current head coach.

History

The Trinity Bantams men's squash team holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak in any intercollegiate sport in the nation's history. On January 18, 2012, Trinity's 252-game unbeaten streak ended in a 5–4 loss to the

Yale Bulldogs The Yale Bulldogs are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won two NCAA national championships in women's fencing, four in ...

. The Bantams won 13 consecutive national titles from 1999, when they first took home the Potter Trophy, through 2011. More recently, they are the 2017 and 2018 national champions. The Bantams entered the 2023 championships seeded 6th, they went on to upset #3 Princeton and #2 Penn Before falling to Harvard in the final 5-4. For the second time in four Years, the Bantams made it to the National Championships Final under Coach

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. The program has also garnered attention and praise from major media outlets such as

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'', among others. They were recently ranked by ESPN as one of the top ten sports dynasties of all time.

Year-by-year results

Men's Squash

Updated February 2022.

Players

Current roster

Updated February 2023.

Notable former players

Notable alumni include: *

Basit Ashfaq Basit Ashfaq ( ur, باسط اشفاق; born 13 January 1986 in Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. ...

'10 Former world #61, 3x 1st team All-American, 58-2 career record, 2008 and 2009 Individual Champion, 4x National Team Champion *

Christopher Binnie Christopher Binnie (born 26 January 1989, in Kingston) is a professional squash player who represents Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Gre ...

* Vikram Malhotra *

Juan Camilo Vargas Juan Camilo Vargas (born 18 April 1994, in Bogota) is a Colombian professional squash player. As of February 2018, he was ranked number 102 in the world ''In the World'' is an album by jazz saxophonist Clifford Jordan which was recorded in 1969 ...

Kush Kumar Kush Kumar, (born May 29, 1996 in Dhampur) is a professional squash player who represents India. Kush Kumar graduated with a finance degree Trinity College. Kumar now works for a hedgefund called Matrix Capital Management based in Boston. He rea ...

* Thoboki Mohohlo * Miko Aijanen

References

External links

* {{NESCAC College men's squash teams in the United States Squash in Connecticut Sports clubs and teams established in 1941 1941 establishments in Connecticut