By James Zug
During the NUSEA leadership conference, US Squash’s CEO Kevin Klipstein awarded the President’s Cup to William E. Simon, Jr. for his many decades of dedication, support and leadership in the game.
Bill Simon first took up squash in 1969 as a freshman at Williams College, when his tennis...
By James Zug
Photos by Marian Kraus
The MetroSquash Academic & Squash Center, the fourth stand-alone purpose-built urban squash youth enrichment facility in the U.S., opened this spring in Chicago.
The certificate of occupancy was issued on April 1, 2015. It was exactly ten years to the day after MetroSquash had been...
By James Zug
During the gala dinner at the biennial World Doubles tournament in Chicago, US Squash honored Paul M. Cussen with the United States Olympic Committee Volunteer Coach of the Year Award.
Cussen started his involvement with MetroSquash as one of the program’s first volunteers soon after the program launched in 2005....
By James Zug
Earlier this summer, I went to my local club and got on the squash court with Richard Millman. An Englishman who has been coaching in the States for a quarter century, Millman is known for innovative, out-of-the-box thinking (he promotes the iMask, for instance). We played hard...
In locker roomsand galleries, during van ridesand post-game chats, people talk about who does what in the game, about which celebrity is rumored to play, about which coach or player is more impactful on the game. For the second year in a row, Squash Magazine has finally put it...
By James Zug
Take yourself back to the 1961 National Singles. The men are playing at Penn. In the quarters Charlie Ufford faces his former Harvard classmate
Dave Watts. They are old friends and former teammates. They play together in New York. Ufford has almost always won—he played No. 1 and Watts No. 2 when they were at Harvard—and Watts...
by James Zug
Parity is the watchword at the Delaware Investments United States Open. Two years ago, the national championship became the first major in the squash world to have equal prize money for men and women.
Ironically, one of the complaints during the move to parity in 2013, among some...
By James Zug
When Gregory Gaultier won the 2015 Men’s World Squash Championships, the scene was perhaps as dramatic a moment as we have ever seen at the forty-year-old event. Gaultier was avenging nine years of agony.
The finals of the 2006 World Open, held in front of the Pyramids of...
by Chris McClintick
They almost withdrew. It was the title they wanted most and the last to elude them on the SDA tour. As the 2015 Briggs Cup was starting, Damien Mudge was nursing a debilitating pinched nerve in his right foot. He was far from 100%. Ben Gould’s parents,...
By James Zug
A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight
By Maria Toorpakai with Katharine Holstein
(Twelve, 2016)
Within the squash world, it was well-known that Maria Toorpakai had a special story.
She had been a promising junior, the first woman to come out of the...