By Beth Rasin
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At the end of the intercollegiate singles championship weekend at Princeton, Amina Helal gave Trinity its first women's intercollegiate singles championship and Bernardo Samper made it three individual titles for the men.
'Muy feliz,' said Bernardo Samper, the new men's intercollegiate squash champion, when asked in his native language how he felt after defeating Princeton's Will Evans in four games. The women's champion, Amina Helal, expressed her delight in a perfectly clipped British accent. Indeed, the likelihood that the champion's post-match interview would either be in a foreign language, or English with a foreign accent, was pretty high going into the championship weekend. Six of the top eight seeds in the men's draw were from outside the US; in the women's draw it was five of eight.
Just five years ago, Trinity College had never won a single intercollegiate squash title—singles or team. On the first weekend in March 2002, it would have been unwise to bet against the trifecta for either the Trinity men or women. With regular season and team championships under their belt, the Trinity Bantams' No. 1 players, neither of whom had lost a match all season, could complete a Trinity sweep of college squash if they upheld their No. 1 seedings.
(For a complete recap of the intercollegiate individual championships, pick up a copy of the April 2002 issue of Squash Magazine
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