At the request of Randy Kahn in the Southwest SRA, Will Carlin was asked to write an open letter to their membership two years after he suffered a devastating eye injury in court. Below is an edited (for length) reprint of that letter:
October 20, 1994
As many of you know, in...
By Chris McClintick
Photos by SDA
Squash was the last thing on Paul Price’s mind the week after a five-game loss to Mudge & Gould in the final of the 2014 Putnam Pro-Am. He was more concerned with last-minute wedding details, for which he and his Canadian fiancée, Kyla, would soon be flying to Mexico....
By Anne Bello
Photos by Michael Bello
For all the buzz surrounding up-and-coming teams like St. Lawrence and Rochester early in the season, it was one of the most storied programs in college squash history that dominated the championship season.
Harvard swept Trinity to win the men’s team title, and Crimson players Amanda Sobhy and Ali...
By James Zug
It was a weekend of firsts. It was the 102nd time that the country gathered to play its national squash championship. Yet even after more than a century, so much was new at the annual conclave.
It was the first time the National Singles was held in Virginia. The Boar’s Head hosted the weekend at...
Reviving an award won by the likes of Mark Talbott, Demer Holleran, and Marty Clark for the first time in thirteen years, the US Squash National Teams Committee nominated F. Gilpin “Gilly” Lane for the 2013 United States Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year Award for the most outstanding performance by a Team USA...
During the well-attended signature Saturday night dinner gathering of the 102nd National Championships in Charlottesville, US Squash honored Jaffray Woodriff with a US Squash Special Recognition Award for his leadership and substantial contributions to squash in the U.S.
The building of the University of Virginia’s McArthur Squash Center at Boar’s Head Sports Club, where the...
By Anne Bello
Photos by Michael Bello
Throughout its history, college squash has lived in cycles. After all, only five men's schools (Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Navy, and Trinity) and five women's schools (Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Penn, and Trinity) have captured the nine-player national championship in the combined 108 seasons of college...
By James Zug
Walking out onto the steps of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Wayne, Pennsylvania, after Diehl Mateer's funeral service, one of the most storied players ever said to me: "He was the one, wasn't he? Yes, yes, George Diehl Mateer, Jr. was the greatest amateur squash player in...
As is now traditional, U.S. Squash presented new members of the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame during the U.S. Open, the class of 2011 and the class of 2012. All five inductees, accompanied by past inductees, were honored with on-court presentations on the first night of the glass-court matches....
By James Zug
If the British Open is the church of squash (hallowed but lately not as central to our lives) the United States Open is the economy of squash. In the 40 times the men’s event and 16 times the women’s event have been staged, the Open has seen...