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...
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...
The Arlen Specter US Squash Center: Building a Home for the Sport
The dream of a national home for squash in the U.S. Has been envisioned for decades. Having a critical mass of courts in one...
Book Review: BIG DATA
One of the benefits of the U.S. Open arriving at Drexel University in 2011 has been a myriad of interactions between the squash community...
2020-2021 Milestones
2020-2021 Milestones
Deaths
Marwan Mahmoud Abdelnaby
Marwan Mahmoud died in August 2020 at age twenty-four. The Egyptian had starred at Penn and was getting a masters at...
The Ratings Game – An Analysis of US Squash Ratings
by Varun Fuloria, Rutwik Kharkar, and Ryan Rayfield
What’s in a number? A lot, if you ask a player about their US Squash rating! Squash...
Outside the Glass: Qamar Zaman
Qamar Zaman was the original Conjuror, a magical player who a half century ago enthralled audiences around the world. British Open champion, world No.1...
Community Perspectives: Growing Diversity in Squash
By Laura Trevelyan
Laura Trevelyan is an award-winning journalist for the BBC, college squash parent and CitySquash board member.
Squash in the U.S. is at an...
Squash News Cover is a Trip Down Memory Lane
By James Zug
Twenty-five years ago, the cover of Squash News, our predecessor magazine, featured fifty-three young athletes. That February 1996 issue was historic. It...
DeRoy Leads Squash for Forty Years
For forty years, the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation has partnered with the game of squash.
The roots of the relationship came in 1978, after the death...