What it Means to Turn the Page on the Season
by Kevin Klipstein
My kids love the Sesame St. book called “Please Do Not Open This Book” which involves Grover and Elmo fighting over whether to turn pages to get to the end of the...
From US Squash Transcending Squash
By Kevin Klipstein
One of the main motivations for my taking this job was to be part of an effort to make squash more broadly accessible to play, watch and become more known to the...
THE GIFT OF DIVERSITY
Reflecting on my college squash days nearly thirty years later, what immediately comes to mind are the road trips. Ten passenger vans driven by the coach. If an assistant coach joined, it was four...
From US Squash
By Kevin Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
In talking with people in the squash community, I often find it helpful to remind them where US Squash was just a decade ago. We were a...
From US Squash
By Kevin Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
The U.S. Junior Open is held the last weekend before the holidays each year and, therefore, offers a great opportunity for reflection. I started as CEO the...
From US Squash
By Kevin Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
The 2005 Annual Meeting of the Members took place during Nationals at Harvard—I was three months into the job, and there were five of us total (an official...
From US Squash Why Change?
By Kevin Klipstein
In the 1998 Nora Ephron film You’ve Got Mail, change is everywhere as Joe Fox (played by Tom Hanks) of “Fox Books” opens another megastore near several small book stores in New York...
From US Squash
By Kevin D. Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
It’s been quite a year already in sports so far starting with the Sochi Winter Olympics serving up rigged Russian figure skating results, World Cup soccer...
From US Squash Nation. Team. Title. Unite.
By Kevin Klipstein
International athletic competitions such as the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup have a way of uniting nations and obscuring differences among people. Rooting for your country just feels good, and rallying behind...
From US Squash Teams Work
By Kevin Klipstein
The U.S. SQUASH National League Final, while technically in its first year, has a history that dates back to 1935 and the Tri City Trophy, a 7-player team competition between New York, Philadelphia and...