The longest college sports winning streak of all time is over: Yale beats Trinity in squash
Jan 19, 2012, 10:07 AM EDT
AP The longest winning streak in the history of varsity intercollegiate sports is over: Yale has defeated Trinity in men’s squash. It happened at Yale’s Brady Squash Center, where the Bulldogs upset the Bantams 5-4, ending the record 252-match streak that dated to 1998. Trinity is coached buy the legendary Paul Assaiante, who guided the program to 13 consecutive College Squash Association titles. Trinity will be gunning for a 14th next month.
I first became aware of the streak when this now-notorious photo appeared in the Hartford Courant in 2010. It shows Trinity’s Baset Chaundry taunting Yale’s Kenneth Chan following Chaundry’s win in a CSA National Championship match in 2010.
Trinity’s streak far surpasses the number of wins of other notable intercollegiate winning streaks. Yale’s swimming team had a 201-meet winning streak between 1940 and 1961. Miami’s men’s tennis team won 137 matches between 1957 and 1964, and the UCLA men’s basketball team won 88 in a row under John Wooden in the early 1970s. More recently, Penn State’s women’s volleyball team won 109 matches in a streak that ended in 2010, and the UConn women’s basketball team won 90 games in a streak that ended last December.
H/T Richard Deitsch.
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Yale Men Defeat Trinity Squash, Ending Record-Breaking Streak [College Squash Association]
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- smokehouse56 - Jan 20, 2012 at 1:54 PM
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What the hell is there to comment on. All I know about Squash is that it is grown in a garden and eaten at the dinner table. I don’t. I hate it.
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- alwaysalady5 - Mar 5, 2012 at 11:40 AM
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Wish you had done your research. This is NOT the longest running college winning streak, in fact it doesn’t even come close. The top two are owned by the women’s and men’s swimming team from Kenyon College, in Gambier, OH. The women’s team has a 17 year NCAA national championship streak, and the men’s team just wrapped the 31 year winning streak in 2011.
