Grainger and Scharf Take Mixed
After becoming the U.S. Women’s National Champion and then winning the women’s World Doubles Championship for the United States, Natalie Grainger has continued her monumental winning streak at the U.S. Mixed Doubles Championships, teaming...
U.S. Father & Son
By James Zug
Thirty-five teams competed in the 2013 U.S. Father-Son Squash Championships in New York in April.
This was the ninth annual event and it was as robust as it was when it started in...
Canada Sweeps Lapham-Grant
An intrepid band of merry pranksters sailed by air to the Pacific Northwest to represent the United States in the Lapham Grant matches. Fifty-two American men and women arrived in Vancouver, BC, on April...
U.S. Pro Squash Series to Include Life Time Tour
The U.S. Pro Squash Series—a collaboration between U.S. Squash and the Professional Squash Association (PSA)—has been given a further boost through the inclusion of the Life Time Grand Prix Squash Tour.
Life Time Fitness has...
Sterling Silvers
One month after the top junior players in the United States convened at Yale University for the 2013 U.S. Junior Squash Championships, the second tier of junior squash talent took part in the U.S....
And the Bronze Championships Go To…
A week after the Squash Club at Chelsea Piers hosted the concluding match of the global squash phenomenon that was the 7 Continent Challenge, 215 junior players descended on the complex for the 2013...
7 Continents in 7 Days
Peter Nicol MBE and Tim Garner’s incredible week of playing squash around the world ended on a high in the US where they successfully completed the Xodus 7 Continent Challenge.
Nicol won the overall competition...
Feed Your Brain
By Candace Chemtob, B.S. and M.S. in Human Nutrition
The comparisons between squash and chess are plentiful. The BBC called squash “chess at 100 mph” (June 2, 2002). Nicol David explained in a recent CNN...
Assessing Your Season and Planning to Improve
By Peter Nicol, former World No. 1
So the traditional season is over and now is the time to assess how you performed. Ideally, you should be hyper-critical of your game initially to really identify the...
Early Specialization in Sports: Risk or Reward?
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Whether a parent of a budding young athlete or a coach to a player you believe has the promise to be the next young squash star, it...