Publishers Note Defining Moments
By Jay D. Prince
Ever had one of those moments when you take a step back from the sports activities your children are participating in and realize how much about life we can learn from...
Natalie Grinham Ends Nicol David’s Winning Streak
Natalie Grinham and Nicol David: The top two players on the WISPA Tour. Going into the inaugural Seoul Open Squash Championship, David had won 51-consecutive matches, including four successive finals over the Aussie. But...
Rachael Grinham Hits One Out of the Park
Rachael Grinham has an all-time batting average of .600 at the Hurghada Squash International in Egypt. In the last five years, she has only struck out against Carol Owens, back in 2003, and Egypt’s...
Squash Prospers in Asia
The profile of squash in Asia continues to grow. While Malaysian World No. 1, Nicol David, has dominated the women’s game over the past year, fans and players in the region now have something else...
Fitz is Still the Master
As much as current WISPA players probably look up to Aussie legend Sarah Fitz-Gerald, they may just be relieved that she is retired. More than four years after saying farewell to the World Tour,...
The Chirls Scholarship: Continued Commitment to Community and to the Memory of Catherine Chirls
By Sarah Barenbaum
When Catherine Chirls passed away September 11, 2001, her family created the Catherine E. Chirls Scholarship Fund in her memory. The fund was established through the generosity of family and friends of...
Amsterdam or Bust
The last time the Netherlands played host to a major women’s professional squash tournament was the 1989 Women’s World Open in Warmond. The Forexx Dutch Open aims to fix that in August when the...
Shanahan to Stay in the Game
With relocation inevitably comes staff changes. And US Squash will be no different when the Association makes it’s permanent home in New York. For the past six years, Jeanie Shanahan has been the voice...
The Maine Men at Ketcham
Bowdoin College’s Zach Linhart and Peter Cipriano captured the 2007 National Intercollegiate Hardball Doubles Championship this spring at the University Club in New York, with successive wins over Princeton, No. 1 seed Yale and...
From US Squash Why Change?
By Kevin Klipstein
In the 1998 Nora Ephron film You’ve Got Mail, change is everywhere as Joe Fox (played by Tom Hanks) of “Fox Books” opens another megastore near several small book stores in New York...