Trinity College Dublin swept the boards at the 2026 Intervarsities Championships, winning all three divisions at the 15-team, five-college event held over three days.
BU19 Irish Junior champion Danny Lynch, club captain and tournament organiser Sarah Jane Smith, Sara Sabry, Jamie Porter and David Smith made up the Trinity A* team that scored 57 points from its four match victories in Division A.
That was enough to give them a six-point top-flight buffer ahead of the second-place Trinity A team consisting of Ryan Kelly, Dylan Kaplan, Charlotte Vengrin, Parth Maheshwari and Victoria Protsepova.
Queen’s University Belfast A were third with 27 points, with University College Cork A in fourth on 20 points and Royal College of Surgeons Ireland A, last year’s title winners in Belfast, finishing fifth with nine points.
The Trinity B team, made up of Justin Buhl, Sanskriti Gautam, Shay McDonnell, Caitlin McConnon and Ayushmaan Kumar Yadav, won Division B with 53 points and four match wins.
That placed them 12 points ahead of University of Galway A, whose team featured Michael Hayes, Cathal McGrath, Namus Calder, Asif Khan and Daire Ryan on 41 points and three match wins. UCC B were third with 33 points, QUB B fourth with 31 and RCSI B fifth with four points.
Switching to Division C, the Trinity C team of Nora Collins, Kate Ng, Abdul Halim Bin Mohd Nadziruddin, Zeyad Fouda and Raj Upadhyaya finished top of the table on 42 points after three match wins.
That put them 12 points clear of runners-up QUB C, featuring James McCarroll, Timothy Low, Simon Shemetilo, Jack Simms and Daniel McCormack who had 28 points and two match wins. UCC C were third with 26 points, NUIG B fourth and RCSI C fifth.
Trinity A* skipper Smith was thrilled that the Intervarsities tournament was a success, especially as it coincided with Saturday night’s black-tie ball celebrating the host college’s 90-year involvement in squash.
“It’s been fantastic,” she told Squash Ireland following Sunday’s trophy presentations at College Green. “We were really delighted to have 15 teams here at Printing House Square from all over Ireland.
“It’s a fantastic venue. We’re very lucky to have the new courts and it was a great weekend of squash. Really delighted we could celebrate the 90th anniversary of Trinity Squash as well. We had a fantastic event on Saturday in the Dining Hall.
“The Intervarsities went brilliantly. We had this venue at Trinity and also used LCC in Rathmines. Division C was over there on Saturday and then everyone got to play at least one match in Trinity. It went really well.
“It was a brilliant weekend for the Trinity club. Its teams came out on top in all three divisions, but there were lots of close matches,” she added before passing the tournament hosting responsibilities over to UCC for the 2027 Championships.
