By Lee Stabert
Photos by Dale Walker/DaleWalkerPhoto.com
In squash, you can never underestimate the ability of your opponent to pull out that miracle scrape. This fall, when U.S. SQUASH made the last-minute decision to cancel the beloved U.S. Five Man (now U.S. Five Person) Championship, it inspired some impassioned grassroots organizing and...
By Hope Prockop
In the four weeks between US Team trials and our departure for the 16th Women’s World Teams Championships in Cairo, I was filled with enormous excitement and a healthy dose of anxiety. I was overjoyed to have earned another chance to represent the USA and play top notch...
By Jennifer Gabler
Photos courtesy of U.S. Squash
Urban Programs In General
Since 1996, the squash community has been assisting inner-city middle and high school students through programs known as “urban squash.” SquashBusters in Boston was the original program, combining equal parts of academic tutoring and squash coaching in an after school...
By Beth Rasin
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
The excitement, energy and electricity of the world’s largest spectator squash event, played under the breathtaking chandeliers of Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall in front of tens of thousands of New Yorkers, is what has distinguished the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions as one...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
When you are the first person from your country ever to receive its highest recognition for arts, sports, science or humanity, you probably feel as though you are not entitled to lose the World Open.
That is the degree of status which Nicol David has...
By Beth Rasin
From the host venue to the 200 players participating, Howe Cup 2008 exemplified the love of the game that inspired the creation of this team event in 1928 and has carried it to new heights 80 years later. It was particularly fitting that just two months after...
Given to high school student athletes who achieved a minimum GPA of 3.5 (or B+ equivalent) in school and earned a U.S. SQUASH Final Season ranking, U.S. SQUASH recognized 112 Scholar-Athletes who participated in the junior squash season during the 2007-2008 academic year. This year’s recipients, who had to...
By James Zug
It was about storytelling.
Beneath the carapace of elegance and the thick scrim of black-tie and evening gowns and silver scoops of potato leek gratin and tangerine segment and cabernet reduction, it was just a brace of old and new friends gathered together and telling stories.
We heard about...
By Ryan Kuntz
During the second week of September, Chicago welcomed many of the world’s top-ranked players to compete in the inaugural Sweet Home Chicago Open. While squash fanatics based in the Windy City have seen their fair share of tournaments, never before had a tournament been presented on this...
Photos courtesy of Princeton University
A five time national singles champion, who also owned a 117-15 win-loss record as coach of the Princeton women’s squash team that won 12 intercollegiate national team titles during her 20 year coaching career, Betty Howe Constable looms large in the history of US squash....