SDA Bantams: The Group of Trinity Alumni Shaping the Professional Doubles Tour
By Chris McClintick
Nearly a score of graduating classes played some part in the longest winning streak in college sports history—Trinity men’s squash: 252 consecutive victories, including thirteen national titles, from 1998 to 2012. While...
Paying It Forward: The Illig Legacy
By Nell Schwed
After John Illig, head coach for the Middlebury men and women, died suddenly in August 2014, the team and their program faced an unknown future. Many were wondering what the squash program...
Team USA Goes to British Junior Open
By Rich Wade
The Steel City of Sheffield is better known for its two soccer teams, the Owls (Sheffield Wednesday) and the Blades (Sheffield United) and for being the setting of the classic movie The...
Howe Cup 2014 For the Love of the Game
By Beth Rasin
There were the warm embraces of friends who hadn’t seen each other for a year or more; there were the team outfits that glittered and sparkled; there was a visit from Mr. Jefferson,...
Twenty Years of Urban Squash and Education
In 1995 Greg Zaff, former professional squash player, had an idea. What originated in a graduate term paper ultimately launched an after-school program combining squash practice with academic tutoring—the first of its kind.
The original...
College Squash Recruiting
By Nell Schwed
Squash is many things, but what it first brings to mind—besides its elitist roots, genteel style and winter vegetable connotation—is the competitive edge it can provide a college applicant.
Typically, those schools who fall...
Legends Play in the World Masters Championships
By Will Carlin
"Brett Martin is playing.”
Those were the words on many people’s lips when Martin’s name appeared as top seed in the M50 draw of the World Squash Federation’s World Masters Squash Championships in...
Urban Squash Citizenship Tour
By Sage Ramadge
When was the last time you had a chance to play squash with a governor and a senator in the same week? For twenty-two college and high school students on the Urban...
World Junior Championships: Brownell’s Break Through in Namibia
By Chris McClintick
An uncompromising desert climate with a mean altitude (5, 436 ft), higher than that of Denver (5,280 ft), welcomed the world’s best junior squash talent in Windhoek, Namibia—a nation younger than the...
College Squash Across the Pond
By Theo Woodward
College squash in the United States is a hugely successful enterprise that has fueled the development of American squash. In contrast, the situation overseas is the opposite: college squash is more of...