by James Zug
Deaths
Leonard A. Bernheimer died in March at the age of eighty-two. In age group play, Lenny won eight National Singles and seventeen National Doubles titles and played for Team USA at the 1977 World Teams. A born leader, he was co-director of the Boston Open 1971-1991, chair...
by James Zug
Susan Gross was an ordinary squash mother. She had a precocious daughter, Amy, who loved squash but in the mid-1990s it was hard to find clubs where Amy could play. They lived outside Philadelphia and almost all the clubs were private. Amy had started playing at eight...
Now completing his twentieth year as president & CEO at US Squash, Kevin Klipstein returns to OTG to talk about milestones, past and future and gives insight on what American squash might look like in July 2028.
Outside The Glass · Ep.100 Kevin Klipstein
Jack Wyant, the Penn coach, talks with OTG about the future of college squash.
Outside The Glass · Ep.99 Jack Wyant
America’s top player talks about her second Achilles rupture and another long road to recovery.
Outside The Glass · Ep. 98 Amanda Sobhy
by James Zug
Deaths
Eric C. Fast
Eric Fast died in July at the age of seventy-four. He served on the board of US Squash from 2004-2010 and later the founding chair of the board of the College Squash Association. He was awarded the President’s Cup in 2010.
Purdy C. Jordan
Purdy Jordan died...
Dave Talbott, Mark Talbott, Guy Cipriano and Sam Fraidin himself tell the true story behind one of the game’s most notorious practical jokes.
Outside The Glass · Ep.97 Sam Fraidin
How did squash get into the Olympic Games? Ned Edwards, a leader in the effort, tells the story.
Outside The Glass · Ep. 96 Ned Edwards
The behind-the-scenes media master at the PSA for the past decade, Nathan Clarke dissects a half dozen of his best photographs.
Outside The Glass · Ep.95 Nathan Clarke
Western Lane
By Chetna Maroo
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023)
by James Zug
Chetna Maroo’s debut novel—short and tight, at 150-pages it is really a novella—is set in the 1980s in Luton, a town north of London, and revolves around a Gujarati Indian immigrant family. The mother has just died, and the father...