By Paul Assaiante, National Coach
In life the pursuit of goals is a bit like building a railroad track. You must first come up with your destination, and this is the plan or the “dream” if you will. Nothing happens without first dreaming.
You then must get down on your hands...
By Rod Gilmour
It was just before Sunday lunch at the Hilton in Buenos Aires, when Jacques Rogge, the outgoing International Olympic committee president, stared down at the white sheet of paper in front of him. Slowly, he began to read out the result on which sport would win Olympic...
By Pia A. Floresca
One of the biggest international efforts in squash in the past decade has been the quest to join the Olympic Games. In each of the past two campaigns, an Access Youth Academy student has played a central role in the World Squash Federation’s official presentation. (In...
By Barry Faguy
HEY REF! I was refereeing a match recently and made a key decision—and quickly realized I had made a mistake. It was not a judgment issue, but about the actual rule. Should I have corrected myself?
If your error relates to a Marker call (typically when you’re acting...
By Beth Rasin
Could a coveted national championship really be at stake when competitors were smiling broadly and so easily applauding an opponent’s scrappy play? There was so much joy at the eightieth Howe Cup that naive spectators might be excused for failing to realize that it was the venerable annual...
By Peter Lasusa, Board Chair
Everyone who loves the game of squash has, in all likelihood, been drawn more deeply into the game by experiencing very early on some “great squash” either as a player, or as a spectator. Great squash is what got us all here. We all know...
By Beth Rasin
For three days in October at the Seattle Athletic club, squash was celebrated in all its glory and distilled to its essence. The annual coming together of women from across the country and Canada, with a few international visitors mixed in, to compete in Howe Cup, continued...
By George Meiras, chair of the World Squash Federation's Olympic Bid Steering Group
Every four years there is a different system for selecting sports for an upcoming Olympic Games. The process for 2020 is as follows.
Currently there are seven sports competing for the one place to be available in 2020. These are...
By Vidya Rajan
Cemented as the world’s largest junior tournament, the 2012 US Junior Open brought together over 800 participants from 24 different countries. Played at Harvard University for the third year running with additional matches played at Belmont Hill School, Northeastern University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the tournament saw...
By Beth Rasin
Grit, glamour and glory defined the 3G bandwidth of Howe Cup 2012. Grit was evident throughout the tournament on the host Meadow Mill courts—not the sweep up the dirt from your shoes grit, but the throw back your shoulders and hunker down to win the match kind...