Squash Boasts Ten Teams Crowned at U.S. High School Championships
The Avon Old Farms Winged Beavers and Greenwich Academy Gators won the 2014 U.S. High School Team Squash division one boy’s and girl’s championships respectively, at the largest squash tournament in the world, involving 151...
Nutrition Myths – Part II: They Will Make You Go Hmmm…
By Candace H. Chemtob, MS, RD, LD, CSSD
For an athlete, knowing the difference between “fact and fiction” could have a significant impact on performance, and health. This article will cover some widely held sports nutrition myths.
Myth 1:...
Lessoncourt: Movement and Shot Mechanics
By Richard Millman
The longer I study this game, the more I realize how subtle— and almost invisible to the eye—are the essential elements of control that are required to maximize one’s efficiency.
The difference between a player...
The Mind Game — Self-Belief
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist and Conditioning Specialist
In a diversion from the usual context of my articles around physical training, I wanted to venture into probably the most critical factor in influencing success in any competitive...
Nailbiters and Blowouts: Harvard Takes Three of Four National Collegiate Titles
By Anne Bello
Photos by Michael Bello
For all the buzz surrounding up-and-coming teams like St. Lawrence and Rochester early in the season, it was one of the most storied programs in college squash history that dominated the championship...
Historic National Singles
By James Zug
It was a weekend of firsts. It was the 102nd time that the country gathered to play its national squash championship. Yet even after more than a century, so much was new at the annual conclave.
It was...
Gilly Lane US Squash USOC Athlete of the Year
Reviving an award won by the likes of Mark Talbott, Demer Holleran, and Marty Clark for the first time in thirteen years, the US Squash National Teams Committee nominated F. Gilpin “Gilly” Lane for the 2013 United...
Jaffray Woodriff Honored at 102nd National Championships
During the well-attended signature Saturday night dinner gathering of the 102nd National Championships in Charlottesville, US Squash honored Jaffray Woodriff with a US Squash Special Recognition Award for his leadership and substantial contributions to squash in the U.S.
The...
Bridging the Generations
By Chris McClintick
A few nights before the inaugural U.S. Century Doubles Championship in 2008, tournament founder Kit Tatum received a phone call from Palmer Page, the former US SQUASH CEO. Page was concerned that the tournament, requiring nothing...
Will’s World Seven Faults
By Will Carlin
In the fall of 1962, John McPhee got a phone call from his father.
McPhee was not yet the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer he would later become; in fact, he had not yet written his first book. McPhee’s father, on...