Will’s World: Ring in the New
You may have heard the news last month: squash is once again shortlisted for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
We have been down this road before. Perhaps because of the high...
Caring With Squash
By Nell Schwed
Freshman at Dana Hall School, squash player and founder of her own nonprofit, Sydney Soloway uses the sport she loves to help children in need through SquashCares.
Soloway’s squash career started early—in the...
Charlotte Squash Fever
By Chris McClintick
For years, the Providence Square Shopping Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, had festered in a state of abandon. Once a thriving shopping center with more than twenty outlets opened in the early...
The Little Secret Game
By James Zug
Earlier this summer, I went to my local club and got on the squash court with Richard Millman. An Englishman who has been coaching in the States for a quarter century, Millman...
Squash Urbano Colombia: Building Champions in Cartagena
By James Zug
Jesus David Flores is the youngest of four brothers. He is eleven, a fifth grader, a wiry, fresh-eyed, inquisitive kid. His father is a mototaxista—he drives a motorcycle taxi around Cartagena. Jesus joined Squash...
Catalina Pelaez Shares Her Experience of Explosion at Club El Nogal
On February 7, 2003, a terrorist bomb exploded at Club El Nogal, Bogota's leading squash club. Thirty-six people were killed and more than 200 were wounded, including Catalina Pelaez.
It was a normal Friday. I...
Pan American Games—Medals of Every Hue
By Chris McClintick
Photos by Paige Stewart
“In an indifferent Toronto, the Pan Am Games Land With a Thud,” read a headline in The New York Times one day before the quadrennial Games’ opening ceremony. Earlier...
2015 Technifibre Squash Racquets
By Pierre Bastien, squash equipment blogger at squashsource.com
Ah, summer. While things can be a bit slow around the squash courts during the warmer months, it’s an exciting time in the squash equipment world, because this...
Squash—Otherwise Known as Physical Chess
By Gilly Lane, U.S. national coach
People often refer to the sport of squash as a game of physical chess. You are constantly trying to out-think your opponent on the go. While the sport of...
Taking Time Away From Competition
By Damon Leedale-Brown, sports scientist & conditioning specialist
The increasing move towards year-round competition schedules and early specialization in youth sports contradicts the majority of research that warns of the risks associated with such an...