Spotlight Urban Squash – 5th Annual National Urban Squash and Education Association (NUSEA) Individual...

5th Annual National Urban Squash and Education Association (NUSEA) Individual Championships The NUSEA Urban Individual Nationals is held yearly in June, at the Groton School, for kids from the NUSEA Member Squash Programs: CitySquash from...

The Chirls Scholarship: Continued Commitment to Community and to the Memory of Catherine Chirls

By Sarah Barenbaum When Catherine Chirls passed away September 11, 2001, her family created the Catherine E. Chirls Scholarship Fund in her memory. The fund was established through the generosity of family and friends of...

Leaving Boston to go to College After seven years in SquashBusters, GREAT colleges await

By Kirsten Carlson Photos courtesy of SquashBusters Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! -Oh, the Places You'll Go! By Dr. Seuss An excerpt from one of the most popular graduation gifts—no matter what one is...

Guillermo Moronta From Special Kid to Influential Man

By Kirsten Carlson Cambridge. Best known for Harvard, the school where some of the nation’s, and world’s, finest head for a top-notch education. Cambridge is also home to a whole bunch of people who are...

Urban Team Nationals

Article courtesy of US Squash Photos by Chris Smith March 30-April 1 marked the fourth annual Urban Youth Squash Team Nationals, hosted at the SquashBusters Center at Northeastern University in Boston. The event brought together more...

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...

I Will Never Forget This Evening: NUSEA Celebrates Twenty Years of Urban Squash

By James Zug In January 2015 the National Urban Squash & Education Association held a gala weekend in New York. In January 1995, the idea of an after-school youth enrichment program existed only on paper—literally, in...

Bill Simon Awarded President’s Cup

By James Zug During the NUSEA leadership conference, US Squash’s CEO Kevin Klipstein awarded the President’s Cup to William E. Simon, Jr. for his many decades of dedication, support and leadership in the game. Bill Simon...

The Luxury to Dream Big

By Reyna Pachecho A graduate of Access Youth Academy in San Diego, Pachecho gave the keynote address below at the NUSEA gala dinner. She is a junior at Columbia, playing at the top of the...

MetroSquash Opens New Facility

By James Zug Photos by Marian Kraus The MetroSquash Academic & Squash Center, the fourth stand-alone purpose-built urban squash youth enrichment facility in the U.S., opened this spring in Chicago. The certificate of occupancy was issued on...