- 11 consecutive NCAA National titles
- 202 consecutive match victories
- The longest winning streak in the history of any intercollegiate sport.
Unless your sport is Squash, you’ve probably never heard of Paul Assaiante. Yet, he is the winningest coach in the history of college sports. As the head coach of the Trinity College Squash Team, over the past fifteen years he has been quietly building a legacy of teamwork, leadership and success that is unparalleled. Because of his dedication Trinity now holds the record for the longest winning streak of any college team, in any sport in history.
If you ask Coach Assaiante what his purpose in life is, he says: “To touch people and make a difference”. His chosen vocation, Coaching, not only allows him an avenue to achieve this, but it actually necessitates it, if his team is to succeed. And succeed his players do.
His skill for rallying cross cultural teams into a cohesive group of winners is unique. He’s taken the world’s top individual players from across cultural, religious and even language boundaries and managed to mold them into a prolific winning machine and a family, that places the success of their team above all else. Their triumphs and perseverance against terrible odds and against the nation’s top Ivy League schools has propelled them to the forefront of college sports as legends in the making.
Coach Assaiante’s personal belief in embracing fear in order to remove the obstacles to success is also a key factor in his success. Through the years, he has learned that goal setting, while important is of secondary importance to helping people to first learn first to deal with their fears. Coach Assaiante says “What you fear owns you. Until you can free yourself from these chains- success and the joy of the journey cannot be realized”.
Passion for touching people, skill at building successful teams and the personal belief in embracing fear have all led him to the podium, where he delivers his powerful messages to corporate audiences, public forums and young adults across the country.
More about Coach Assaiante
Coach Assaiante has been involved in athletics throughout his life and has competed and coached at national and international levels. Since 1993 he has coached the men’s squash and tennis teams at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. For six years he was the coach of the Hartford Fox Force, a World Team Tennis championship team headed by Monica Seles and Marty Fish. He has coached the USA Men’s Squash Team and twice been named the United States Olympic Coach of the Year. He has also coached squash and tennis at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the world famous Princeton Club of New York. The Hartford Courant named him Connecticut Coach of the Century. In his spare time, he advises parents and children at junior sport programs and coaches at summer camps. Raised in New York, Assaiante is a parent of three children and currently resides in West Hartford, CT.
