2023 Milestones

by James Zug Deaths Eric C. Fast Eric Fast died in July at the age of seventy-four. He served on the board of US Squash from 2004-2010 and later the founding chair of the board of the College Squash Association. He was awarded the President’s Cup in 2010. Purdy C. Jordan Purdy Jordan died...
I Love You, But I Wanna Win! How the Athletic Club of Columbus, Ohio, built an eighty-woman squash league in two years! By Karen Arango The Athletic Club of Columbus is different from most other clubs that offer squash. With the building being over a century old, weight-bearing pillars throughout the building...
Outside The Glass · Ep.95 Nathan Clarke
Milo Miller (L) and Dan Hogan

Squash—A Game for the Ages

Editor’s Note: While writing this article and as a result of what happened in the course of his match with twelve-year-old Milo Miller, Dan was diagnosed with both Early-Stage Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s (Lewy Body Syndrome). In his closing paragraphs, he discusses what this has meant for him and how...
Western Lane By Chetna Maroo (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023) by James Zug Chetna Maroo’s debut novel—short and tight, at 150-pages it is really a novella—is set in the 1980s in Luton, a town north of London, and revolves around a Gujarati Indian immigrant family. The mother has just died, and the father...
Denis L. Bourke and Robert H. Eather Squash Magazine (Nov. 2021) published a feature article (Ref. #1): "The Ratings Game - An Analysis of US Squash Ratings." In the article the authors showed that the Club Locker ratings – now known as the Universal Squash Rating (USR) – based...
Steve Line tells the stories behind some of his most famous images, including Awad v. Jahangir in 1982, Jahangir in 1988 and Willstrop & Matthew in 2009. Outside The Glass · Ep.90 Steve Line—Classic Photographs
US Squash receives many requests to participate in and work with young men and women in their educational pursuits, whether for a school project, summer internship, to satiate a specific curiosity or otherwise. One such request came from Nehal Ramlukan. Nehal was introduced to us with a goal, a...
Manek Mathur, one of the most dominant and influential professional doubles players of the past decade, has announced his retirement from the Squash Doubles Association Pro Tour. New York City-based Mathur will bow out at the top of the world rankings and make his final appearance at the historic...
by James Zug When I was working at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, a lot of fellow journalists asked why I was there, since the U.S. was not competing. It was an easy answer. The Commonwealth Games are far and away squash’s biggest moment. Every four years the Games expose...