[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 34 (Friday, February 27, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E272]
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TRIBUTE TO THE TRINITY COLLEGE BANTAMS MENS SQUASH TEAM--2015 NATIONAL 
                               CHAMPIONS

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                          HON. JOHN B. LARSON

                             of connecticut

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, February 27, 2015

  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute 
to the 2015 National Team Championship (NTC) Men's champions, the 
Trinity College Bantams. On Sunday, February 22, the men secured their 
15th national title and Potter Cup.
  Their accomplishments continue to raise the standard for athleticism 
and achievement. I would like to congratulate each member of the team, 
Coach Paul Assaiante, and all the fans and supporters who made this 
great victory possible. Also, the Trinity's women's squash team 
deserves special recognition for their strong season under Coach Wendy 
Bartlett.
  I cannot communicate these achievements more articulately than the 
Hartford Courant did in its editorial published on February 23rd: 
Trinity College Bantams Rule Men's Squash Roost.
  I submit the text of that article.

               [From The Hartford Courant, Feb. 23, 2015]

            Trinity College Bantams Rule Men's Squash Roost

       Congratulations to Trinity College's men's squash team, 
     which defended its home court Sunday and brought home its 
     15th national championship since 1998. The Bantams reclaimed 
     the crown they have lost only lost four times in 19 
     consecutive finals appearances. Once the mouse that roared 
     among the indoor racket game's longtime Ivy League 
     establishment, Trinity has gone from upstart to pacesetter.
       Under the steady tutelage of coach Paul Assaiante, who has 
     guided the team's remarkable rise to the squash elite, the 
     Bantams won a handy 7-2 victory over St. Lawrence University, 
     which was making its initial appearance in the national 
     finals. It was the first time that no Ivy League team was in 
     the Potter Cup finals since the championship began in 1989. 
     Among college champions crowned since 1942, only the U.S. 
     Naval Academy and Trinity have supplanted Ivy League schools 
     as national champions. In a sign of the sport's broadening 
     reach, the University of Rochester and Franklin and Marshall 
     College were other non-Ivy contenders this year.
       Trinity's women's squash team, the 2014 national champions, 
     deserves its own congratulations for a strong season that 
     fell one win short of defending its title. The women, under 
     coach Wendy Bartlett, lost in the national finals to the 
     Harvard University women on Feb. 15.

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