U.S. SQUASH Announces 2008-2009 Scholar-Athlete Award Recipients

Given to high school student athletes who achieved a minimum GPA of 3.5 (or B+ equivalent) in school and earned a U.S. SQUASH Final Season ranking, U.S. SQUASH recognized 135 Scholar-Athletes who participated in...

Strength Training for Squash Part III —Squats & Lunges

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Last month we discussed philosophies of effective strength training techniques for squash, and highlighted the benefits of exercises performed in standing positions (i.e., body-weight squat and lunge)...

A New Era Dawning?

By Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee As I write this, I have just returned from hosting the 10th World Refereeing Conference in Odense, Denmark, and one of the most interesting and valuable sessions involved...

Houdini your way out of Jail! How to hit the straight drop from a...

By Richard Millman, Director of Squash, Kiawah Island Club As you may remember from last month’s article I have been talking about the back corners, or “Jail” as I sometimes refer to these regions of the...

Knocking on the Door

By Jay D. Prince and Preston Quick Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com For years, the question has been asked: “When will an American reach the top-10 in the men’s World Rankings?” Along with that has been the...

Women’s World Open: A tongue that wouldn’t work—the struggles of an icon.

By Richard Eaton Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com The depth of the ordeal that Nicol David had endured became more apparent within moments of winning her fourth World Open after an initially hesitant but eventually beautifully taken...

College Squash Season Preview

By Anne Bello and Michael T. Bello co-Editors of CollegeSquashAssociation.com With new players, a new scoring method, new teams, and a new website, the 2009-2010 college squash season will build on the excitement of last year’s...

Will’s World Teammate

By Will Carlin On a cold, wet and rainy weekend in the fall of 1982, a tournament was held at the Hartford Golf Club in Connecticut. Despite its important-sounding name, the Connecticut-Western Mass Championships nevertheless was...