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....
By James Zug
This month is the 25th anniversary of the first U.S. national softball tournament. With the dominance of softball today in America—the mass conversions of the 1990s, the incredible retreat of hardball—it is strange to imagine that the first sanctioned softball nationals was held just a quarter century...
By Scott Leighton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
A few days before the individual competition kicked off the 2008 World Junior Men’s Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, the US Junior Men’s team spent a day sightseeing by taking a ferry across scenic Lake Lucerne and hiking to the top of Mount Pilatus. This...
By James Zug
On a bright, cloudless summer day, Mark Talbott is rushing to the Palo Alto train station to pick me up. He is late. He has borrowed a car from one of his Stanford squash players—the Talbotts are a one-car family—and the exchange took longer than it might have,...
By Joseph Dworetzky
Photos by Sam Sneed
Just before the game begins, there is a moment of quiet. A man walks through the glass door onto the empty squash court. He is dressed entirely in white except for a fedora the color of an old saddle. He holds a squash racquet...
By Jay D. Prince
Two years ago, US Squash made a bold decision to separate the U.S. Skill Level Championships from the U.S. Championships (Age Groups) with the long-term goal of creating a blow-out weekend “championship of the membership.” In 2007, the first independent event was a hit when it...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
David Palmer wondered if he would ever cut it at the top level again after beginning a new phase in his life in Massachusetts. But he did, and more besides.
With an epic victory in the British Open final at Liverpool he underlined a case...