From US Squash Squash Parent
By Jeannie Blasberg
The nervous stomach, the sweaty palms, the anxiousness that envelopes your body while you smile and try to appear nonchalant. If you’ve ever watched someone you love play squash, you know just...
From US Squash Boxing out the Ladder of Inference
By Kevin Klipstein
The word ladder invokes images from every walk of life. Step ladders, rope ladders, the corporate ladder, even the fire department’s ladder truck. Whatever image you conjure up, it most certainly involves...
From US Squash Sports for Life
By Kevin Klipstein
I started playing squash when I was 11 years old. My father, who had played recreationally in college, introduced the game to me and quickly got out of the way. We were...
From US Squash Changing Lives
By Bill Buckingham
Four months ago I was a squash authority. I was introduced to the game in 2001 when Yale coach Dave Talbott called my office looking for some assistance with a national event...
From US Squash The Association Formerly Known As “USSRA”
By Kevin Klipstein
As many of you have likely noticed, perhaps by the different title of this monthly piece, we have changed the name of the organization from USSRA to “US Squash.” While we started this...
From US Squash Thinking about the Future
By Jeannie Blasberg
Like more and more of you, I play squash 12 months a year. Although competition is reserved for the traditional winter season, summer is a time to practice, optimistically anticipating a better...
From US Squash It’s Official
By Jeannie Blasberg
On Tuesday evening, June 19, 2007, a quorum of the 33 current US Squash members of the Board of Directors voted unanimously to adopt restated By-laws and to elect the new Board of...
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 Olympic Efforts
By Kevin Klipstein
Since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote on the 2012 Olympic Program during the summer of 2005, little has been heard or said about squash and the Olympics. You may recall the...
From US Squash Mapping our Future
By Jeannie Blasberg
Let me start with an overview of what we have accomplished in the last year and a half. We’ve hired and empowered a top-notch Chief Executive Officer in Kevin Klipstein; we’ve redesigned...