Publishers Note Lessons from Kids

By Jay D. Prince There’s little doubt that all of us have heard the notion that poor behavior by juniors, regardless of their chosen sport— basketball, soccer, tennis, squash to name a few—is a reflection of...

From US Squash Advancing Through Growth and Innovation

By Kevin Klipstein The opportunity to see the best in our sport duly recognized on the world stage by being able to compete alongside the best in every other sport would be something that everyone...

Harrity Makes it a Triple

By James Zug Preston Quick directed the 28th annual Butcher/Ball/Ketcham National Intercollegiate Squash Doubles Championships in Philadelphia during the U.S. Open’s first weekend in October. The Racquet Club of Philadelphia again hosted, with Germantown Cricket...

2012 M4 – Maine/Maryland @ Meadow Mill Doubles

By Fred Hill Nigel Thain hit a hard backhand volley just above the left front tin to give Thain and Dave Rosen a dramatic, “no-set” final point victory over Peter Cipriano and Nick Barquin in...

London Set For Stellar Squash Showdown

The ATCO PSA World Series Squash Finals will make a welcome return to the home of racquet sports this January when the world’s best players head to The Queen’s Club in London, from 2-6 January 2013, for...

Canada Sweeps 2012 Can-Am Cup

Buffalo (NY) was the setting for the third biennial installment of the Can-Am Cup held the weekend of October 26-28. The previous two Can-Ams were won handily by the US team having swept all...

Sum of Its Parts: You don’t strike the ball in match play by ignoring...

By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation Languages, cultures, pursuits, attitudes, personalities—all can be reduced to their constituent parts. But once we have taken them to pieces, we need to be very careful...

Endurance Training For Squash – Intervals, Part 2

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist In the follow up to our first article on Interval Training let’s consider some of the typical questions and uncertainties players have around performing interval training: How...

Hey Ref! An ‘Official’ Q&A

By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies." Hmmm! I'll make an exception for the next few editions that will feature questions that have piled...

Portion Distortion: Do portion sizes matter?

By Candace Chemtob, B.S. and M.S. in Human Nutrition Just look around and you can see that America's waistline is expanding. More than 2/3 of Americans are overweight or obese, with an astonishing 75 million...