Vassar Goes Co-Ed
By Bill Buckingham
In 1969, Vassar College declined an offer from Yale University to merge institutions. Instead it became the first and only of the original “Seven Sister” schools to become co-ed (Radcliffe was later...
Trinity’s Kimberly Featured in Sports Illustrated’s ‘Faces in the Crowd’
Winning the fifth game of her College Squash Association Women's Team Championship final match against Harvard's Saumya Karki not only clinched the national title for the Trinity Bantams, it also propelled freshman Anna Kimberley...
College Squash Across the Pond
By Theo Woodward
College squash in the United States is a hugely successful enterprise that has fueled the development of American squash. In contrast, the situation overseas is the opposite: college squash is more of...
Penn Squash Celebrates 125 Years
By Palmer Page
In early February the University of Pennsylvania celebrated 125 years of squash.
More than 375 former and current players and friends gathered in Thomas B. Ringe Courts, following a thrilling 5-4 women’s squash victory over Yale,...
Your Serve February 2014
Great job on revamping Squash Magazine. Loved Kevin Klipstein's story on his Cornell experience. We had even less comfort. When we played the Naval Academy in 1957, five of us drove from Ithaca to Annapolis in my...
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...
College Preview
By Anne Bello
Photos by Michael Bello
Throughout its history, college squash has lived in cycles. After all, only five men's schools (Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Navy, and Trinity) and five women's schools (Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Penn,...
Harrity Makes it a Triple
By James Zug
Preston Quick directed the 28th annual Butcher/Ball/Ketcham National Intercollegiate Squash Doubles Championships in Philadelphia during the U.S. Open’s first weekend in October. The Racquet Club of Philadelphia again hosted, with Germantown Cricket...
He Whiffed: The Original Streak, the Cardiac Kid, The Palindromic String and Cool as...
By James Zug
1989
We had lost to Harvard in the regular season in 1989, 6-3 in Cambridge. A week later we beat them in the semis of the first nationals team tournament at Yale....
Intercollegiate Doubles With Record Draw
By James Zug
The 2011 (Part Two) U.S. National Intercollegiate Doubles Championships came to Philadelphia as a part of the U.S. Open’s first weekend. After more than two decades of incubation and careful attention at...