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
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
By Kevin D. Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
At the fifty-ninth hosting of the Junior Nationals this spring, we honored Olivia Fiechter and Derek Hsue with the 2014 DeRoy Sportsmanship Award. Each year we...
From US Squash
By Kevin D. Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
It’s easy to get lost in all the titles. U.S. Championships are all around us now. It wasn’t always the case, as many in their 40s,...
From US Squash
By Kevin D. Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
Modern photography traces its roots back 1,000 years to an Iraqi inventor who managed to project an outside image on the inside of a tent, upside...
From US Squash
By Kevin D. Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
The start of a typical Wednesday night league match for me sounds like this after the warm-up:
Me: “Do you have your eye guards? In case I...
From US Squash
By Kevin D. Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
Fifty years have now passed since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the first and only squash-playing U.S. President. Kennedy once said, “If we cannot...
From US Squash
By Kevin D. Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
As freshmen on the Cornell team, to say we occupied the back seat would be accurate both physically and metaphorically. College squash had yet to reach...
From US Squash
By Kevin D. Klipstein, President & Chief Executive Officer
Last year around this time I wrote about how impressive the top squash professionals were both on and off the court, and how much they deserved...