By Vidya RajanPhotos by Dale Walker/DaleWalkerPhoto.com
This year, 277 juniors ranked in the top 32 of their divisions gathered at the Meadow Mill Athletic Club in Baltimore, Maryland to compete for the U.S. Junior Championships. Meadow Mill has hosted three of the last five Junior Nationals, and for many players,...
By Whit Sheppard
Photos by Patricia Lyons/PatriciaLyonsPhotography.com
All eyes in the professional squash world were trained on Richmond (VA) the last week of February, as the 6th annual rendition of the Davenport North American Open took place on the campus of the University of Richmond in the city’s West End.
The tournament,...
By Jay D. Prince
Photos by Richard Druckman
Over four-thousand days. The streak. Trinity dominating men’s intercollegiate squash. That’s how long it’s been since they last lost. Sure, there have been a handful of 5-4 wins, most notably against Princeton three years ago when the Tigers had the match on the...
By Jay D. Prince
One year ago, the U.S. Skill Level Championships successfully completed its second year as a separate event from the age group divisions. Yale played host to the Championships that were a culmination of a season that included, for the first time, regional qualifying tournaments in Portland...
Richard J Friedman, MD, FRCSC
Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Roper Hospital, Charleston, SC.
Significant advances in orthopaedic surgery may allow squash players with previously disabling arthritis to continue playing at a highly competitive level. One of the most exciting procedures is hip resurfacing,...
By Bill Buckingham
With the U.S. High School Championship’s doubling in size over the past three years, the rapid growth of the U.S. Middle School Team Championships (nearly 30 teams competing in only its second year) and the explosion in popularity of collegiate squash, both experienced junior players and tournament...
By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Remember Kurt Hulton’s 1934 photograph of Grand Central? Soft shafts of light streaming down on the tiny, doll-like people meeting and parting and hurrying. But exactly three-quarters of a century later, any reader of this magazine thinks: oh, just out of the frame of...
By James Zug
During the JPMorgan Tournament of Champions, one special event occurred 17 blocks north of Grand Central. It was a sneak-peek screening of Keep Eye on Ball: The Hashim Khan Story. Directed by Josh Easdon and produced by Beth Rasin, the documentary tells the biography of the world’s...
By Vidya Rajan
Photos by Jay D. Prince/SquashMagazine.com
Two years ago, Seattle was hit with an anomalous wind storm that wiped out the power of half the city. It just so happened that the U.S. Junior Open was being held in Seattle that year, and its starting date coincided with the...
Two months ago in Squash Magazine, I began sharing with our readers a vision I’ve had for a squash mecca in my Publisher’s Note. At the time I wrote those columns, I hadn’t really put much thought into existing facilities in this country other than a passing mention of...