By James Zug
Squash is one of the cleanest sports in the world. Only twenty professionals have been suspended in the history of testing.
Drilling down into these positive tests, one sees a few facts. Although some players whisper about rumors of failed tests among players of certain developing countries—Egypt, Pakistan...
By James Zug
Photos by Marian Kraus
The MetroSquash Academic & Squash Center, the fourth stand-alone purpose-built urban squash youth enrichment facility in the U.S., opened this spring in Chicago.
The certificate of occupancy was issued on April 1, 2015. It was exactly ten years to the day after MetroSquash had been...
By James Zug
During the gala dinner at the biennial World Doubles tournament in Chicago, US Squash honored Paul M. Cussen with the United States Olympic Committee Volunteer Coach of the Year Award.
Cussen started his involvement with MetroSquash as one of the program’s first volunteers soon after the program launched in 2005....
By James Zug
During the NUSEA leadership conference, US Squash’s CEO Kevin Klipstein awarded the President’s Cup to William E. Simon, Jr. for his many decades of dedication, support and leadership in the game.
Bill Simon first took up squash in 1969 as a freshman at Williams College, when his tennis...
By Reyna Pachecho
A graduate of Access Youth Academy in San Diego, Pachecho gave the keynote address below at the NUSEA gala dinner. She is a junior at Columbia, playing at the top of the Lions' squash ladder and is ranked No. 157 in the world.
Wanting more than the basic...
By James Zug
In January 2015 the National Urban Squash & Education Association held a gala weekend in New York.
In January 1995, the idea of an after-school youth enrichment program existed only on paper—literally, in a seven-page paper, “Bringing Squash Down from the Ivory Tower.” Greg Zaff wrote it for...
By James Zug
Redemption is a tricky tiger to ride. You hold match balls in the finals of the world championship. You are just one point away, serving for the match, victory is on your racquet.
And then it doesn’t happen. You lose. It is awful. It is devastating. The dream...
By Jay D. Prince
If last year was a year of firsts for the U.S. Squash Championships, the taste was so good that having seconds at the McArthur Squash Center at Boar’s Head Inn in Charlottesville, Virginia, was well worth the one year wait. At the 2015 U.S. Squash Championships,...
By Jay D. Prince (From Squash Magazine, May 2005)
Let’s say you’re born with athletic genes to English parents and you live in the western United States. As you’re growing up, your interests draw you to two sports that most would consider to be relatively obscure—unless you actually lived in...
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 for his chronically troublesome hamstrings. Then have him convalesce in New York and keep him...