{"id":3540,"date":"2017-06-05T17:16:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=3540"},"modified":"2017-06-05T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:16:16","slug":"squash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2017\/athletics\/squash\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photos by David B. Newman<\/em><\/p>\n

Men’s Squash<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thoboki Mohohlo \u201919<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Trinity College men\u2019s squash team completed another historic season in 2016\u201317, finishing with a 19\u20131 record, winning its 11th consecutive New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship title, and capturing the College Squash Association (CSA) National Team Championship (Potter Trophy) title for the 16th time in the last 19 years. The Bantams, coached by Paul Assaiante in his 23rd season, defeated\u00a0Pennsylvania 8\u20131 and St. Lawrence 7\u20132 in the Potter Trophy quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively, before winning at Harvard 5\u20134 in the CSA finals.<\/p>\n

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Men\u2019s squash tri-captain Affeeq Ismail \u201917 closed his collegiate career as the all-time winningest player in Trinity men\u2019s squash history, with 77 wins and just 12 losses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senior tri-captain Affeeq Ismail won a third consecutive CSA National Singles Championship B Division (Molloy) title. Junior tri-captain\u00a0Rick Penders<\/a>\u00a0and sophomores\u00a0Michael Craig<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Thoboki Mohohlo<\/a>\u00a0were each named to the CSA All-American First Team, while Ismail\u00a0graced the CSA All-American Second Team. Mohohlo also was selected as the NESCAC Men\u2019s Squash Rookie of the Year and joined Penders\u00a0and junior\u00a0James Evans<\/a>\u00a0on the All-NESCAC First Team, while Ismail, junior\u00a0Omar Allaudin<\/a>, and Craig each garnered\u00a0All-NESCAC Second Team honors.<\/p>\n

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Women’s Squash<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Anna Kimberley \u201917<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trinity\u2019s women\u2019s squash team, coached by Wendy Bartlett in her 33rd season, finished with a 16\u20133 record, won its 11th consecutive NESCAC title, and finished third in the CSA National Team Championships (Howe Cup) at Princeton University.\u00a0The Bantams swept through the league tournament at Amherst College with 9\u20130 wins over Colby, Bates, and Williams and blanked Stanford 9\u20130 in the Howe Cup quarterfinals before falling to Penn in the semifinals. Trinity rallied to win 7\u20132 at Princeton to earn third place. Trinity junior Raneem Sharaf and first-year Vanessa Raj were named to the CSA All-American First Team, while fellow Bantam rookies Salma Alam El Din and Lakeesha Rarere graced the CSA All-American Second Team. Raj also was named as the NESCAC Women\u2019s Squash Rookie of the Year and joined senior co-captain Anna Kimberley and Sharaf on the All-NESCAC First Team, while junior Julia LeCoq, Alam El Din, and Rarere graced the All-NESCAC Second Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photos by David B. Newman Men’s Squash The Trinity College men\u2019s squash team completed another historic season in 2016\u201317, finishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1470,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3540\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}