Hardball and Doubles Rankings, 2011/2012 Season

Doubles Rankings Men Open 1 Whitten Morris 2 Trevor McGuinness 3 Dylan Patterson 3 Steven Scharff 5 Addison West 6 Josh Schwartz 7 Shane Coleman 8 John White 9 Hamed Anvari 10 Tim Wyant 11 Gustav Detter 12 Noah Wimmer 13 John Russell 14 Dennett Wilkens 15 Coley Smith 16 Peter...

My Internship at U.S. Squash

By Raheem Logan When I traveled to the U.S SQUASH office to introduce myself in person before the start of my internship, all eyes gazed on me as they tend to do with an unfamiliar...

SPA-tlight: Craig Thorpe-Clark

Craig Thorpe-Clark, Poughkeepsie Tennis & Squash & Bard College Where did you grow up? Melbourne, Australia. How did you get involved with squash? A club opened up just down the road during the start of the boom in...

Urban Squash Goes to Doubles Camp

Four students from Access Youth Academy, Ana Rodriguez, Jesus Gomez, Yan Liu and Omar Galindo, had the opportunity to participate in an introductory doubles squash camp in Denver (CO) at the end of August....

Summon Your Angel to Stifle Your Devil

By Richard Millman, Owner- The Squash Doctor Corporation You need a positive Mantra from your personal Angel. Something simple and non critical. Something that helps you to get your maximum edge. For me it’s one...

Alcohol’s Effect on Performance

By Candace Chemtob, B.S. and M.S. in Human Nutrition Obviously athletic performance and alcohol don’t mix well. Performing under the influence of alcohol will reduce your ability to think clearly on the court, slow reaction...

The ‘Interrupted Winning Return’

By Barry Faguy There are a whole bunch of places where the concept of ‘winning return’ appears in the rules. We don’t have the space to deal with all of them, but we’ll clear up...

Developing Movement Proficiency in Young Athletes

By Damon-Leedale Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Squash is a movement-based sport and a major part of success especially at higher levels of play is based around proficient athletic and movement skills. The ability...

He Whiffed: The Original Streak, the Cardiac Kid, The Palindromic String and Cool as...

By James Zug 1989 We had lost to Harvard in the regular season in 1989, 6-3 in Cambridge. A week later we beat them in the semis of the first nationals team tournament at Yale....

U.S. Boys Finish Eighth at World Junior Championships

By TJ Dembinski Qatar. This was the site of the World Junior Championships in 2012 and, throughout the 2011- 12 squash season, the destination that many of us in the under-19s hoped would be our...