Trinity's record victory streak in squash comes to an end The streak is over. After 13-plus years, after 13 consecutive national championships, after 252 straight victories - the longest such run in college sports - the Trinity men's squash team has lost a match, to Yale. Last year's Trinity-Yale match in January was a central part of a story Paul Wachter wrote for the magazine about how Trinity turned itself into a squash power by recruiting foreign students, and several of its dramatis personae took part in this week's match. Students from outside the United States are still deciding things, even if the winning school has changed: at least five of the nine winners in Wednesday's match came from abroad. See the rosters here and here. To close his article, Wachter describes Paul Assaiante, Trinity's coach, confronting the idea of his team's streak coming to its inevitable end: He says he is prepared for the day his team loses, that he has rehearsed many times the speech he'll give. He pictures the match ending 5-4, with the Trinity player who loses the deciding match walking off the court, head down. "First of all, I'll ask the five players that lost to raise their hands," Assaiante says. "I'll say: "All of you lost a point today. You lost the same number of points as the last man on the court. So Johnny, you have nothing to hang your head about."" He'll invite the team to dinner, where he'll assure his players that "nothing has changed," certainly not how he feels about them or how they feel about one another. But first, before the team leaves the courts, Assaiante wants to do something else. "I'm going to dance," he says. "And then I'll yell, "Yippee!"" In fact, Trinity's loss to Yale did end up 5-4. But it doesn't appear that Assaiante did his dance after all. It's not in evidence in this video, and after the match he said, "I always said that I would be relieved when this streak was over, but I guess I was lying because I don't like this feeling at all."