Will’s World: Sniff it Out

By Will Carlin Some matches were blowouts; others were excruciatingly close. Some matches were filled with incredibly hard hitting; others were played with an inordinate number of deft drop shots and sky high lobs. Some...

Cream of the Crop: National Juniors in Princeton

By Chris McClintick Just over a month after the passing of Princeton Coach Bob Callahan, it was apt that the nation’s top players congregated on the same hallowed courts beneath Jadwin Gymnasium that Callahan nurtured...

Middle and High School Championships A Success

By Nell Schwed Team feels an incongruous word when used in the same breath as squash. Squash is individual, independent, not often thought of as combination, or unification. One court. Two players. Racquets, shoes, a...

Sobhy Completes College Sweep: Harvard and Trinity Head of Team Class

By Nell Schwed In a season dominated by close competition and surprise score lines, the CSA National Championships proved to be the perfect stomping ground for retribution, legacies revived, and new claims staked. The Women’s National...

Harrity Captures First National Singles

By Jay D. Prince If last year was a year of firsts for the U.S. Squash Championships, the taste was so good that having seconds at the McArthur Squash Center at Boar’s Head Inn in...

The Old Masters Are Right: Redemption at the ToC

By James Zug Redemption is a tricky tiger to ride. You hold match balls in the finals of the world championship. You are just one point away, serving for the match, victory is on your...

I Will Never Forget This Evening: NUSEA Celebrates Twenty Years of Urban Squash

By James Zug In January 2015 the National Urban Squash & Education Association held a gala weekend in New York. In January 1995, the idea of an after-school youth enrichment program existed only on paper—literally, in...

Bill Simon Awarded President’s Cup

By James Zug During the NUSEA leadership conference, US Squash’s CEO Kevin Klipstein awarded the President’s Cup to William E. Simon, Jr. for his many decades of dedication, support and leadership in the game. Bill Simon...

The Luxury to Dream Big

By Reyna Pachecho A graduate of Access Youth Academy in San Diego, Pachecho gave the keynote address below at the NUSEA gala dinner. She is a junior at Columbia, playing at the top of the...

Trends in Stringing II: Tips for Amateurs

By Steve Crandall, Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Ashaway Racquet Strings In our last column we looked at some stringing habits of the pros. This time, we thought we'd go the other way and...