Hartford, Conn., July 25 – Paul Assaiante (Simsbury, Conn.) will resume his position as head coach of the Trinity College men’s tennis team after a two-year hiatus. The Bantam men’s tennis team finished the 2002-03 season with a 9-4 record, and finished fifth in the NESCAC Championships.

Assaiante, also Trinity head men’s squash coach and director of athletic development, was 75-31 in seven years as Trinity’s head men’s tennis coach from 1994 to 2001. His teams earned three NCAA Championship Tournament bids during his tenure and a fourth in 2002. Assaiante was the head coach of the Hartford Fox Force, a successful franchise in the World Team Tennis Association in the summers of 2001 and 2002. He replaces Rob Hallagan (Guilford, Conn.), who was 21-8 in his two seasons..

Assaiante will remain as head coach of Trinity’s five-time defending national intercollegiate champion men’s squash team. Named the Trinity men’s squash and tennis coach in 1994, Assaiante will begin his 10th season as head men’s squash coach this season, after leading the Bantams to a remarkable 148-10 record in the last nine years. Trinity has won the last five National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association (NISRA) National Team Championship (Potter Trophy) titles, and currently owns a 90-match winning streak dating back to the 1998 NISRA finals.

Assaiante came to Trinity after stints as racquet sports director at several of the top clubs in the nation and head collegiate squash and tennis coaching positions at Williams College and West Point.