Cynwyd Club: A History of One of America’s Great Clubs
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...
Perspectives: Planning for the Quad Ahead with Mark Pagon
Mark Pagon presenting Maria Toorpakai with the President’s Cup
In Olympic lingo, a “quad” is a thing. The Olympic Games are contested every four years, so the natural planning cycle for each sport’s national governing...
Access Youth Academy Spark LA Squash Surge with Trio of Grassroots Initiatives
Article courtesy of the World Squash Federation.
Access Youth Academy, an urban squash program based in California, has introduced a trio of initiatives in Los Angeles to help raise the profile of squash at a...
A Conversation with Katline Cauwels
Linda Elriani, former world No. 3 and US Squash Senior Director of Professional Development and Programming, sat down with Katline recently to congratulate her on receiving the US Squash nomination for the USOPC National...
Olympic Inclusion: Incalculable Impact
Like you, I am excited about this season of squash ahead of us. Inclusion in the Olympic Games has provided us with an entirely different lens through which to view our sport and its...
Outside the Glass Podcast: Kevin Klipstein
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...
2023 Milestones
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...
SDA World No. 1 Mathur Announces Retirement Ahead of David C. Johnson, Jr. Memorial
Manek Mathur, one of the most dominant and influential professional doubles players of the past decade, has announced his retirement from the Squash Doubles Association Pro Tour. New York City-based Mathur will bow out...
Sport For Life x 2
I get the question a half dozen times a week, usually after exchanging the required pleasantries, “you playing any squash?” almost immediately followed by, “any dubs?”. The answers to those questions, if you care...
Squash Takes Center Stage at the Commonwealth Games
by James Zug
When I was working at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, a lot of fellow journalists asked why I was there, since the U.S. was not competing.
It was an easy answer. The...