Trinity: 2010 – 2011 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

Trinity: 2010 – 2011 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

Hartford, CT — While Trinity’s victory over Yale at the 2009-2010 Men’s National Team Championships was nowhere as suspenseful as their win over Princeton the year before, a 5-4 victory that came down to the final points of the final game, it may signal more parity amongst the top men’s teams.

Trinity won all three of its top three matches in straight sets, but the competition away from court #1 was much closer, with Trinity and Yale splitting the bottom six matches. Two of those matches went to five games, with Trinity’s number 7 Chris Binnie and Yale’s number 9 C.J. Plimpton hanging on to win for their respective teams. As two of Trinity’s top players — number 1 Baset Chaudhry and number 3 Supreet Singh — have graduated, the action on courts #2 and #3 may be more representative of the season to come.

“This will be a banner year for college squash with a parity at the top, which we have not seen in recent years,” Trinity head coach Paul Assaiante predicts. “It’s anybody’s championship to take.”

Singh and two-time national individual champion Chaudhry, who Assaiante describes as “very hard if not impossible to replace,” are the only two Bantams not returning. The rest of the squad will be back to make a bid for a thirteenth consecutive national title and to extend their 224-match winning streak. The returning players include 2009-2010 All-Americans Parth Sharma, Antonio Dias-Gonzales Salas, Vikram Malhotra, Randy Lim, and Andres Vargas. Sharma, Salas, Malhotra, and Lim all earned All-NESCAC honors as well.

Trinity will again be the team to beat this season, but Assaiante acknowledges that a number of teams have become increasingly competitive in recent years. “Our goal is to remain competitive as the level of squash in the CSA continues to rise,” he says. Along with the “always strong” Princeton Tigers and traditional powerhouses Yale and Harvard, he points to Rochester, Cornell, and F&M as teams that have become increasingly deep. “It is so exciting to  see the influx of strong international players but also to see US players like Todd Harrity, Chris Hanson, and Alex Domenick playing better and better as they helped to bring the US a bronze medal this summer in the World University Games,” for which Assaiante served as US head coach.

If anything’s for sure, it will be an exciting season for Trinity and for men’s college squash as a whole.

2009-2010 SEASON RECAP

Season Record: 20-0
Final Ranking: 1
Team Championships/Conference: 1st Overall; 1st in Potter Cup (A Division); 1st at NESCAC Championship

2010-2011 SEASON PREVIEW

Program Status: Varsity

Head Coach: Paul Assaiante

Returning Players from Team Championships: Christopher Binnie (7); Johan Detter (10); Antonio Dias Gonzalez (6; 1st Team All-American; 1st Team All-NESCAC); Reinhold Hergeth (9); Randy Lim (5; 2nd Team All-American; 2nd Team All-NESCAC); Vikram Malhotra (4; 1st Team All-American; 2nd Team All-NESCAC); Parth Sharma (2; 1st Team All-American; 1st Team All-NESCAC); Andres Vargas (8; 2nd Team All-American); also Paul Rodriguez, Travis Judson, Daniel Echevarria, and Greg Crane

Graduates on Last Season’s Team Championships Roster: Baset Chaudhry (1; 1st Team All-NESCAC; 2009-2010 Captain); Supreet Singh (3; 1st Team All-American; 2nd Team All-NESCAC; 2009-2010 Captain)

Additions to the 2010-2011 Roster: None

Captains: Travis Judson, Parth Sharma, and Andres Vargas

Team Goals: Remain competitive as the level of squash in the CSA continues to rise; to have another perfect season

Key Matches: Princeton, Rochester, and Yale

To read other team previews, please visit the 2010 – 2011 College Squash Preview Page.

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Avi Agarwal (Princeton University)
Zain Ahmed (Princeton University)
Alex Akbari (Williams College)
Robert Albani (MIT)
Roger Alber Baddour (University of Pennsylvania)
Alexis Ballo (Middlebury College)
Lars Barkman (MIT)
Arav Bhagwati (Yale University)
Atreyus Bhavsar (Hamilton College)
Oliver Bikhazi-Green (St. Lawrence University)
Dean Brooker (St. Lawrence University)
Quintin Campbell (Dartmouth College)
Sebastian Campos (Colby College)
Tad Carney (Yale University)
David Costales (Harvard University)
Hao Cui (University of Pennsylvania)
Marco DiFilippo (Franklin & Marshall College)
Karim Elbarbary (University of Virginia)
Youssef Ezzo (Tufts University)
Garret Fantini (Haverford College)
Nathan Feinstein (Middlebury College)
Juan Felipe Hernandez (Denison University)
Noah Fish (Connecticut College)
Max Forster (Yale University)
Denis Gilevskiy (Harvard University)
Adam Goad (Columbia University)
Max Good (Bates College)
Abhimanyu Gupta (Amherst College)
Francis Evan Hajek (University of Virginia)
Tate Harms (Harvard University)
Pierce Henderson (Williams College)
Grady Herbert (Amherst College)
Zachary Idinopulos (Wesleyan University)
Nikhil Ismail (Yale University)
Rohan Iyer (Cornell University)
Thomas (Jack) Winston (Bowdoin College)
Aaryaman Jaising (Haverford College)
Kian Kardestuncer (Middlebury College)
Noah Katzer (Franklin & Marshall College)
Warren Klein (Dartmouth College)
Jacob Koeppel (University of Rochester)
Theo Kogan (Middlebury College)
Gordon Lam (Princeton University)
Asher Leavy (Williams College)
Jack Lee (Williams College)
Aaron Liang (Cornell University)
Will Lichstein (Middlebury College)
William "Mac" Aube (Dartmouth College)
Crispin McCarthy (Fordham University)
Andrew Minnis (Williams College)
Youssif Mostafa (Colby College)
Artemy Mukhin (Bard College)
Simon Muller (Hamilton College)
Zacharias Nam (Columbia University)
Jacob Nathan (Bard College)
Mitav Nayak (MIT)
Petr Nohel (University of Virginia)
William Okurowski (Amherst College)
Alexander Orr (Naval Academy)
Maxwell Orr (Yale University)
Jeh Pandole (Cornell University)
Henry Pelletier (Connecticut College)
Lucas Piller (Denison University)
Philip Hyun Su Price (MIT)
Rohan Ray (Dartmouth College)
Aidan Ray (Dickinson College)
Thomas Rosini (Princeton University)
William Sarbinowski (Cornell University)
Arnaav Sareen (Cornell University)
Kai Schinaman (Haverford College)
Christian Shah (Dartmouth College)
Jacob Shulman (Hamilton College)
Franklyn Smith (Columbia University)
Joe Smythe (Dickinson College)
Federico Sosa (Princeton University)
Lucas Spiro (Naval Academy)
Nicholas Spizzirri (University of Pennsylvania)
Conner Stoltz (Harvard University)
Rafay Syed (Williams College)
Evann Tan (Franklin & Marshall College)
Kerwin Teh (Tufts University)
John Paul Tew (University of Virginia)
Rana Thakkar (Dartmouth College)
Noah Tunis (Haverford College)
Rohan Valia (Tufts University)
Bennett Van Liew (Fordham University)
Roberto Vega (Hobart College)
Matthew Wang (Naval Academy)
Collin Wen (MIT)
Tom Whiteley (University of Rochester)
Nick Wilkinson (Bowdoin College)
Merritt Wurts (Yale University)
Ethan Yan (Wesleyan University)
Omar Zakaria (University of Rochester)

Women's 2024-25 Scholar Athlete Recipients

Alysa Ali (Cornell University)
Aanya Anand (Wesleyan University)
Mira Bakshi (Wesleyan University)
Charlotte Bell (Princeton University)
Meagan Best (University of Virginia)
Sydney Bramen (Georgetown University)
Nora Brandt (Williams College)
Alex Brown (Amherst College)
Aleezah Burhan (Tufts University)
Lindsey Burnham (Middlebury College)
Fabiola Cabello (Trinity College)
Emma Carney (Harvard University)
Molly Chadwick (Princeton University)
Chelsea Cho (Dartmouth College)
Thenuri De Silva (Bard College)
Jaclyn Dichter (Wesleyan University)
Vharshamithraa Diniesh (Tufts University)
Habiba Eldafrawy (Harvard University)
Ainsley Ellison (Connecticut College)
Maureen Foley (University of Virginia)
Catherine Fortin (Haverford College)
Zarine Gidwaney (Franklin & Marshall College)
Nasreen Hashmi (University of Virginia)
Katherine Hennessy (Georgetown University)
Abby Holding (Middlebury College)
Meherin Hossain (Bard College)
Aalia Husain (Georgetown University)
Riddhi Joshi (Tufts University)
Emma Kahle (St. Lawrence University)
Mira Karande (Bowdoin College)
Gurlin Kaur (Franklin & Marshall College)
Theresa Kay (Williams College)
Zaynab Khan (Trinity College)
Aishwarya Khubchandani (Cornell University)
Josephine Klein (Princeton University)
Gainsley Korengold (Hamilton College)
Christy Tin Yan Lau (Yale University)
Virginia Lawrence (Denison University)
Aubrey Lennon (Dartmouth College)
Katherine Manderlink (Denison University)
Madeleine Martin (St. Lawrence University)
Cate Moll (Dickinson College)
Nieve Monderer (Tufts University)
Saran Nghiem (Harvard University)
Anna O'Connor (Dickinson College)
Mackenzie O'Shea (Colby College)
Lujan Palacios (Trinity College)
Tanmai Pathak (Amherst College)
Natasha Pensler (University of Pennsylvania)
Abbie Peterson (Middlebury College)
Isabella Ronda (Middlebury College)
Isabel Schumacher (Connecticut College)
Amira Singh (Harvard University)
Ariana Solecki (Haverford College)
Amanda Solecki (Williams College)
India Spencer (Colby College)
Meghna Sreedhar (Yale University)
Molly Stoltz (Harvard University)
Sarah Stonestreet (Hamilton College)
Leandra Sze (Wesleyan University)
Lina Sherif Tammam (University of Virginia)
Whitney Taylor (Yale University)
Isabelle Tilney-Sandberg (Amherst College)
Emma Kate Watts-Roy (Bowdoin College)
Darcy Weber (Bowdoin College)
Brecon Welch (Harvard University)

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