Will’s World 2014 The Year of Champions
2014: The Year of Champions
By Will Carlin
The end of the year in squash featured two of the most stunning matches in history at the men’s and women’s world championships. The two players who emerged...
Book Review: Two Squash Manuals by James Zug
Two Squash Manuals
By James Zug
The G Spot: A Book about Squash
Tony Griffin
CreateSpace, 2014
Tony Griffin is a stalwart. He grew up in New Zealand and started playing squash in the early 1970s. At the time,...
Paying It Forward: The Illig Legacy
By Nell Schwed
After John Illig, head coach for the Middlebury men and women, died suddenly in August 2014, the team and their program faced an unknown future. Many were wondering what the squash program...
SDA Bantams: The Group of Trinity Alumni Shaping the Professional Doubles Tour
By Chris McClintick
Nearly a score of graduating classes played some part in the longest winning streak in college sports history—Trinity men’s squash: 252 consecutive victories, including thirteen national titles, from 1998 to 2012. While...
U.S. Women Achieve Best Finish at Historic World Team Championship
By Chris McClintick
Before a ball was hit at the 2014 SHOP.CA World Squash Federation Women’s World Team Squash Championship, former International Olympic Committee Vice President Dick Pound presented the world’s top women with a...
2014 U.S. Junior Open
By Nell Schwed
The U.S. Junior Open, hosted at Yale University in New Haven, CT, has grown into the largest individual junior tournament in the world. With nearly one-thousand entrants, representing thirty-five countries—the United States...
Ashour Ascends to Greatness
By Richard Eaton
Take a man who isn’t sure he will ever be fit enough to play top squash again, and fly him to Delaware for plasma rich platelet injections for a last ditch remedy...
David Extends Record in Greatest World Final Yet
By Richard Eaton
One little incident during Nicol David’s unforgettable recapture of the world title in Cairo was so prematurely revealing that it may pass into sporting folklore.
The most successful player in the history of...
Hot Squash Shoes
HOT SQUASH SHOES!
By Pierre Bastien, Squash Equipment Blogger at squashsource.com
Looking for a fresh pair of shoes for the court? Here are some of the latest models from a few best-selling lines of squash shoes.
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The Mind Game—Managing Competition
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
In previous articles we discussed the concepts of ‘Playing to Win’ or ‘Playing Not to Lose’, and ‘Better by Mistake’. Let’s address these concepts as they apply...