Hours after Amanda Sobhy won the world juniors, the World Squash Federation sent out a press release, “Sobhy Soars to World Title Success,” declaring that she had become the first U.S. player to win a world singles title.
It wasn’t true. Alicia McConnell won the 1980 world juniors in Sweden....
By James Zug
Hashim Khan, who I think can fairly be described as the greatest squash-racquets player of all time, made his American debut in the winter of 1954.
Hashim Khan, may his tribe increase, completely changed the course of events in the game of squash racquets.
The more I think about...
By James Zug
New York was the crucible and Uptown was its red-hot center. Opened in the mid-1970s on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Uptown was the flagship of a new era. It had glamour (Woody Allen filmed a scene for his 1979 film Manhattan there; Alan Alda and Brian DePalma...
By Beth Rasin
For three days in October at the Seattle Athletic club, squash was celebrated in all its glory and distilled to its essence. The annual coming together of women from across the country and Canada, with a few international visitors mixed in, to compete in Howe Cup, continued...
By James Zug
The inclusion of squash in the Olympic Games is an old idea. The earliest documented attempt was in 1947 for the 1952 Helsinki Games (recall that Los Angeles and Minneapolis finished tied for second in the city bidding that go around). The 1976 Montreal Games, selected in 1970, was considered...
By George Meiras, chair of the World Squash Federation's Olympic Bid Steering Group
Every four years there is a different system for selecting sports for an upcoming Olympic Games. The process for 2020 is as follows.
Currently there are seven sports competing for the one place to be available in 2020. These are...
By Vidya Rajan
Cemented as the world’s largest junior tournament, the 2012 US Junior Open brought together over 800 participants from 24 different countries. Played at Harvard University for the third year running with additional matches played at Belmont Hill School, Northeastern University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the tournament saw...
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 Jay D. Prince
The Masters. An event like no other. Oh wait, that’s golf. But in the US, the same can be said for squash. Why? Because the Masters represents the culmination of another squash season for adults. It marks the passing of time as players continue to work their...
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...