Trinity Women’s Squash Team Wins National Championship
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The top-ranked Trinity College women’s squash team won the 2024 Howe Cup on Sunday, March 3, to become the Collegiate Squash Association (CSA) national collegiate team champions. Trinity defeated No. 3 Princeton, 6-2, in the finals held in Philadelphia.
The Trinity women’s squash team won the 2024 Howe Cup on Sunday, March 3, to become the Collegiate Squash Association national collegiate team champions. Photo by Michael T. Bello.
This marks the Trinity women’s squash team’s first national title since 2014, which was the last time the Howe Cup went to a team other than Harvard University. The Bantams completed an undefeated season, with a record of 17-0.
The Trinity women dominated, registering three three-set sweeps from Nouran Youssef ’24, Madeleine Hylland ’24, and Hannah Chukwu ’26. Jana Safy ’25 took down her Princeton opponent in four sets, as did teammate Lulu Palacios Benitez ’25. Kara Lincou ’27 had a tougher match before clinching the five-set win after a 14-12 rally.
Trinity alumna hockey player and former assistant hockey coach Kim Weiss ’11 has advanced her career quickly and is now assistant coach of the Colorado Eagles, the AHL affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche. “I always knew I wanted to coach,” she said.
The Trinity College men’s ice hockey team welcomed a fourth-grade student as a new member through Team IMPACT, which matches children facing serious illness and disability with college sports teams.
Trinity College alumnus and former Bantam baseball player Cooper McGrath ’23 was an 18th-round selection of the San Francisco Giants in the 2025 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft this summer.