Forty years ago, in March 1980, a half dozen enterprising, young women flew to Sweden for the first-ever World Junior Championships: Patrice McConnell Cormwell, Kat Castle Grant, Karen Kelso, Alicia McConnell, Diana Staley and coach Carol Weymuller. The tournament was played in Kungalv, a small village north of Gothenburg....
by James Zug
Damien Mudge has an intentional relationship with velocity. For twenty years he played professional squash doubles across North America. The very first time he went on a doubles court, his boss and mentor at the University Club of New York, Gary Waite, wound up and cracked a...
By James Zug
Eden
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Berkeley, CA: She Writes Press, 2017
A family struggling to overcome devastating secrets while in a beautiful place is the core of Jeanne Blasberg’s debut novel.
Blasberg is most well-known to this magazine’s readers as a squash leader. While at Smith, she picked up the game and...
Muggy Mugaseth might be the answer to the trivia question of who was the first international student-athlete to play intercollegiate squash.
The cover of Squash: A History of the Game features a photograph of the 1951 Harvard men’s squash team. Standing next to a six foot five David Watts is...
It’s my resilience. It’s my passion. It’s my strength. It’s my vision. It’s my voice. It’s my risks. It’s my way.
Recently the PSA has accelerated its video output in an effort to present players in an accessible and behind-the-scenes way. Led by Nathan Clarke, they have issued twenty-odd minute-long...
Intercollegiate squash, entering its ninety-eighth season, is looking as vibrant as it ever has.
Diversity is the current watchword in the College Squash Association: there are more teams from more regions of the country and more players and coaches from across the country and around the world. Players hail from...
by James Zug
The Women’s Squash Doubles Association, now entering its thirteenth season, is on an upward trajectory.
Parity is the WSDA watchword. On the court, a different team captured each of the six WSDA events last season. Winners include college players like Kayley Leonard and Sabrina Sobhy, as well as...
by James Zug
Photography by Michael T. Bello/mtbello.com.
For college squash, the twenty teens turned out to be the Decade of Way. Mike Way started coaching at Harvard in August 2010. Since then his squads have captured nine national team titles; the next best mark for the decade is six, by...
By James Zug
For the 108th time, the best singles players in the country gathered to play each other for the right to claim a national championship. The 2019 National Singles, spread across seventeen divisions, were special not just because it continued the squash world’s oldest annual national championship but...