Men’s Squash Reclaims National Title

Reinhold Hergeth '13

Reinhold Hergeth ’13 (on right)

The Trinity College men’s squash team finished the 2012-13 season with a perfect 19-0 record and captured its seventh consecutive New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship title, its 17th straight Intercollegiate Squash Association Dual Match title, and its 14th College Squash Association (CSA) National Team Championship (Potter Trophy) crown in the last 15 years. Winners of 13 straight national championships from 1999 to 2011, the Bantams, with a 6-3 triumph over Harvard at Yale in February, took back the crown after losing at Princeton in the 2012 finals.

Senior co-captain Johan Detter, sophomore Miled Zarazua, and first-year Juan Vargas were named to the CSA All-American Second Team, while Bantam Head Coach Paul Assaiante, in his 19th season, was selected as the NESCAC Men’s Squash Coach of the Year. Zarazua and Vargas also joined senior co-captain Reinhold Hergeth on the All-NESCAC First Team, while Detter, junior Matthew Mackin, and first-year Karan Malik were chosen for the All-NESCAC Second Team. Detter was additionally named as one of three finalists for the Skillman Award, given annually to the nation’s senior men’s player who has demonstrated outstanding performance and sportsmanship during his career.