{"id":176632815,"date":"2023-04-15T13:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632815"},"modified":"2023-04-14T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:43:18","slug":"assaiante-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632815","title":{"rendered":"Assaiante Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month Coach Paul Assaiante retired after a forty-nine year journey in the squash world.  He and I sat down for an Outside The Glass interview, which went up a few days later:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ep.89 Paul Assaiante by Outside The Glass\" width=\"474\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1482892162&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=711&#038;maxwidth=474\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Episode eighty-nine was not the first time he was on OTG. We did an interview, at the U.S. Open at Drexel, that went up nearly three years ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ep.61 Paul Assaiante by Outside The Glass\" width=\"474\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F956771998&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=711&#038;maxwidth=474\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so the record-breaking run is over. His record at Trinity was 511-34 (a .937 winning percentage), giving him an overall career record (along with his eleven years at Army and two at Williams) of 622-98. There is a slight discrepancy with Trinity&#8217;s records\u2014they list his Bantam record at 507-29. This stems from his first three years at Trinity when the sports information department didn&#8217;t count Trinity&#8217;s results at the national intercollegiate team championships, the new playoff system that had come into existence only a few years earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of Coach&#8217;s records will be broken. He and Jack Barnaby coached seventeen teams to a national title\u2014Mike Way already has fourteen. Someone could possibly win 253 consecutive dual matches. But will any coach accumulate 622 collegiate wins again? That number seems imperishable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month Coach Paul Assaiante retired after a forty-nine year journey in the squash world. He and I sat down for an Outside The Glass interview, which went up a few days later: Episode eighty-nine was not the first time he was on OTG. We did an interview, at the U.S. Open at Drexel, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Assaiante Retires<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176632815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176632815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176632815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176632815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176632815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}