SquashBusters Derby

Saturday, May 1st, marked the fourth annual SquashBusters Derby in Boston, a truly unique event in which seven teams, each comprised of a professional, five amateurs, and two SquashBusters kids, face off in an...

Family ties: Results from the annual urban squash national team tournament

By Angela Grosshans Photos by Seth Packard On Martin Luther King Jr. day, while most people lounge around the house enjoying the tail end of a luxurious three day weekend, the urban squash world buzzes with anticipation,...

StreetSquash Opens Largest Squash Facility in New York

By James Zug It started ten years ago with meetings in George Polsky’s Manhattan apartment. A second-year masters student in social work, Polsky had just gotten back from playing squash in the Maccabiah Games. The captain...

Walker to “Squash-the-World”

Never to rest on his laurels, Chris Walker—former World No. 4 and all-around squash nut—continues to use his creative mind to raise funds for Surf City Squash in San Diego, CA. Last year he...

Women Leading Urban Squash

By Jennifer Gabler Photos courtesy of U.S. Squash Urban Programs In General Since 1996, the squash community has been assisting inner-city middle and high school students through programs known as “urban squash.” SquashBusters in Boston was the...

Facility Update SL Green StreetSquash Center almost finished

After nearly four years of planning and construction, the groundbreaking SL Green StreetSquash Center in the heart of Harlem is expected to open in August. Originally conceived as an eight-court facility for New York City’s...

Surf’s Up for Walker

When Chris Walker made his spectacular run to the finals of the British Open as a qualifier in 2001, while knocking on the door of his 34th birthday, one might expect that he’d sit...

METROsquash with Sue Raises Profile of Squash in Chicago

In an event for the ages, METROsquash—the urban squash and education program for Chicago Public School students—hosted METROsquash with Sue presented by Comcast at The Field Museum on October 11 and 12. It was a...

SquashSmarts’ “Field of Dreams” America’s Third Urban Squash Facility Opens its Doors

By Trevor McGuinness First, there was the Badger & Rosen SquashBusters facility at Northeastern University—a 29,000 square foot athletic center with eight squash courts, a state-of-the-art fitness center and classroom space that visionary Greg Zaff...

Historic Bash For CitySquash

By James Zug It was a jam session. It was like the Bird and Diz and Train getting together in some East Village loft at three in the morning to play jazz and talk about old...