By Kristi Maroc
Hard work, dedication, setbacks, perseverance and sacrifice are key features of any athlete who has made it to the point of realizing exceptional achievements.
For this year’s S.L. Green U.S. National Champion Chris Gordon, the story is no different.
Since first picking up a racquet at eight years old, Gordon...
By Anne Bello
Certain names appear again and again in the College Squash Association’s championship history. By the time the 2012-2013 season was in the books, both the Harvard women and the Trinity men had recorded their fourteenth team championships. Harvard defeated Trinity 5-4 to win the Howe Cup, their third national...
By James Zug
It is that time of year again. In between Labor Day and New Year’s, the vast majority of books are published. Since squash players are intensely literary as a rule, here is a guide to the books every squash player should know about and own and talk about with...
By Dent Wilkens
The 2011 U.S. Doubles Squash Championships returned to Chicago March 25-27, after last being held there in 2004. Title sponsored by BMO Capital Markets, the event was hosted by the Racquet Club of Chicago, the University Club of Chicago, and the Onwentsia Club.
Tournament Chair Peter Dunne worked tirelessly over...
In locker rooms and galleries, during van rides and post-game chats, people always talk about who does what in the game, about which celebrity is rumored to play, about which coach or player is more important. Squash Magazine has finally put it down on paper, in our first annual...
By James Zug
Photos by Dick Druckman
Squash Magazine’s senior writer James Zug is back with another book. In the summer of 2003 we proudly ran an excerpt from Squash: A History of the Game, which came out that fall from Scribner. It was a best-seller in the squash world and...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
“Yes, she can definitely keep her job!” Nicol David joked about Sarah Fitz-Gerald. Well, the sparring partner from Australia had just helped the Malaysian to a fifth World Open title which equalled her own record.
The humor revealed something of both women. David looked more...
By James Zug
This past year, three nonagenarians and one great writer died, leaving our squash landscape a lot less vivid. These four men were all iconoclasts: they were outspoken leaders and their outsized personalities left deep, historically unique imprints across our country.
John Cornish
Former Mass SRA president and the last...
By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Five years ago, squash in the Caymans was on life support. Hurricane Ivan swept through the Cayman Islands in September 2004. Ivan, lest you forgot Katrina, was one of the top ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes in history and the sixth most damaging in...
By James Zug
April 2013 was another extraordinary month in the extraordinary life of Victor Elmaleh. The ninety-four year-old Elmaleh (pronounced El-Mali) went to work each weekday as the chairman of his real estate development firm. He played squash. He and his wife Sono Osato celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary...