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Katie Giovinazzo Becomes Princeton's Second Holleran Cup Winner
March 06, 2011 | Men's Squash, Women's Squash
The Holleran Cup, for women's players ranked 33-64, had a distinctively Princeton feel to it at the end of the CSA national individual championships, held this weekend at Dartmouth. Junior Katie Giovinazzo, seeded third, took on freshman teammate Alex Sawin, seeded fifth, in the finale. After splitting the first two games, Giovinazzo closed with wins of 11-9 and 11-4 to become Princeton's second Holleran Cup winner in program history.
Giovinazzo became Princeton's second Holleran Cup winner in program history; she joins Kaitlin Sennatt, who won the 2007 title as a Tiger freshman.
In the women's main draw, No. 2 player Jackie Moss lost her second-round consolation finale in five tough games to Trinity No. 2 Pamela Hathway. Moss rallied from deficits of 1-0 and 2-1, but Hathway took the final game 11-5 to clinch the match.
Moss was eliminated from the championship draw by Yale's seventh-seeded Millie Tomlinson, who went on to sweep through the field and upset defending champion Laura Gemmell of Harvard 3-0 in Sunday's other main final.
On the men's side, Princeton sophomore Todd Harrity completed a clean sweep at the CSA national individual championships, defeating Cornell's Nick Sachvie 3-0 to win the 2011 national title.
Harrity, whose last collegiate loss came in the 2010 national final to then-senior Colin West of Harvard, becomes the 11th Princeton man to win a national title and the first since Yasser El-Halaby '06 completed his career sweep in 2006. He did it in style, sweeping the whole tournament and never once facing a game ball.
He also becomes the first American ever to win a collegiate softball championship; the last American to win nationals was Harvard's Jon Bernheimer in 1990, when hardball was still being played on the collegiate level.
The win also extends a Princeton University streak as well; the Tiger athletic department has won at least one individual or national title in each of the last 40 years. Three of those titles over the last five years have come from Howe Cup national team titles won by the Princeton women's squash team.