American Junior Girls Repeat Silver Performance
By Chris McClintick
The Hasta La Vista Squash Club was constructed in Wroclow, Poland, with eighteen international courts, including two all-glass surrounded by stadium seating, with one goal in mind: to host the most spectacular...
Masterful in Turin
The streets of historic Turin, Italy, were filled with more than 25,000 Masters Athletes processing behind the banner of their respective sports, led by marching bands, cheerleaders, and acrobats to mark the opening ceremonies...
From Urban Squash to the IOC
By Alexandra Boillot, director of placement at CitySquash
In early September, while most high school seniors were getting ready to make their case to college admissions officers, Andreina Benedith was on her way to Buenos...
2013-2014 College Squash Season Preview
By Dent Wilkins
The 2013-2014 College Squash season promises to feature tight competition in both the Women’s and Men’s leagues, with teams looking to build on last year’s successes. Team rosters will be strengthened by...
2014 High School Team Squash Championships Move to Philadelphia
After the cancellation of the 2013 High School Team Squash Championships in New Haven, CT, due to the winter storm known as Nemo, over 165 squash teams around the country have their eyes set...
Major Long-Term Commitment to Elite Programs from US Squash
On October 1, US Squash launched the Elite Athlete Program (EAP) to financially and logistically support top U.S. players to allow them to train and compete professionally on a full-time basis. The players will...
Cincinnati Launches New Model of Growth
By James Zug
Neal Tew is the purveyor of a new method of developing squash: the nonprofit club.
Tew grew up playing at the Cincinnati Country Club. He was one of Don Mills’ protégés. The class...
Access Squash Academy
By Pia A. Floresca
One of the biggest international efforts in squash in the past decade has been the quest to join the Olympic Games. In each of the past two campaigns, an Access Youth...
Going Her Own Way
By Chris McClintick
In the spring of 1922, Howard Roark—the protagonist in Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead—chooses to leave his architecture school, not compromising his personal architectural beliefs in adhering to the school’s conventionalism.
Nearly...
Snoring Rhinos and Other Tales: a Review of Nick Matthew’s Memoir
By James Zug
Nick Matthew
Sweating Blood: My Life in Squash
Cheshire, England: internationalSportGroup, 2013
It is a shame but inevitable. Like everywhere else in their careers, Nick Matthew and James Willstrop are now placed side by side...