Tom & Hazel Jones-Hall of Fame Inductees
Thomas B. Jones (1935- )
Tom Jones was a pivotal and ebullient leader who revolutionized squash in America in the last quarter of the twentieth century. A Rochester native, Jones won the 1977 U.S. and...
Two Princeton Men Leave Enormous Legacies
By James Zug
It is not what you accomplish. It is what you overcome.
Charles Mallet-Prevost Brinton died in June 2011 at the age of ninety one. The last remaining national singles champion from the 1940s,...
The Strongest Tree: Amanda Sobhy
By James Zug
It is almost ten in the morning and Amanda Sobhy is finally coming to school. It is her senior year and she’s already been accepted to college and from outward appearances, she...
The Lion at Rest (And 180MPH)
Hours after Amanda Sobhy won the world juniors, the World Squash Federation sent out a press release, “Sobhy Soars to World Title Success,” declaring that she had become the first U.S. player to win...
US Pro—Julian Illingworth
What am I going to do after squash?
I have been asked this question constantly since I graduated college and started playing squash professionally in 2006. After playing for five years and making the top 30...
Gilly Lane
This is the sixth in a series of articles written by the top-ranked U.S Squash Professionals about their lives on tour. These articles will cover some of the players’ training routines, travel experiences, and...
When I’m Sixty-Four…!
By Jane Segall and Jen Gabler
When I get older losing my touch
Many years from now
Will I still be hitting backhand drops,
Cross-court volleys, nicking my shots.
If I stay out till quarter to three,
Would...
Chris Gordon
This is the fourth in a series of articles written by the top-ranked U.S Squash Professionals about their lives on tour. These articles will cover some of the players’ training routines, travel experiences, and...
Great White Calls it a Career
By James Willlstrop, PSA No. 12
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Anyone who has been lucky enough to witness John White hit a squash ball will have been thrilled to see a technique and execution of shot...
Guillermo Moronta From Special Kid to Influential Man
By Kirsten Carlson
Cambridge. Best known for Harvard, the school where some of the nation’s, and world’s, finest head for a top-notch education. Cambridge is also home to a whole bunch of people who are...