Linda Elriani, former world No. 3 and US Squash Senior Director of Professional Development and Programming, sat down with Katline recently to congratulate her on receiving the US Squash nomination for the USOPC National Coach of the Year award and talk about her career, and thoughts on coaching. Linda -...
By Rob Dinerman When Clinton Leeuw and Jaymie Haycocks, trailing Mohsin Khan and Nku Patrick two games to one in the opening (quarterfinal) round of the New York Athletic Club (NYAC) Challenger tournament on Mother’s Day Weekend, rallied to take the next two games and then the next two matches, it was a fitting conclusion to a...
Now completing his twentieth year as president & CEO at US Squash, Kevin Klipstein returns to OTG to talk about milestones, past and future and gives insight on what American squash might look like in July 2028. Outside The Glass · Ep.100 Kevin Klipstein

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...
How did squash get into the Olympic Games? Ned Edwards, a leader in the effort, tells the story. Outside The Glass · Ep. 96 Ned Edwards
The behind-the-scenes media master at the PSA for the past decade, Nathan Clarke dissects a half dozen of his best photographs. 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...