Just four days after the historical team nationals, eight players from the squash team traveled to Williamstown, Mass., to compete at this year’s individual nationals. Only 96 of the nation’s best players are invited, so having eight players in the draw was a really good result.
It was a tough weekend filled with squash; many …
We did it. We finished third in the nation; something we knew was achievable but would take a perfect weekend to reach. Well, that’s what we had — a perfect weekend.
The weekend was very close to being a huge disappointment, as we were already 3-4 down against Yale University in the quarterfinals. After Jim Bristow, …
Nationals are a week away, and we ended our regular season on Saturday with a surprisingly comfortable 9-0 victory over University of Pennsylvania. They had nearly beaten Harvard University the week before (like us, they lost 4-5), so we were expecting it to be a real battle.
However, everyone on the team simply outplayed their opponents. …
We were expecting a somewhat bigger crowd than normal. After all, it was Trinity College that was coming down — a team that has won 10 consecutive national championships and was two wins away from completing a winning streak of 200 matches (they completed it the next day by beating Cornell).
And a crowd it was. …
What a weekend: Three matches and 820 miles on the road. That includes 20 hours on the bus, two wins and one loss for the 12 members of the squash team.
Well, we were actually lucky to get the 12th player with us: Joe Chapman had decided to go and watch a final of a pro …
The past weeks have been quite tough for the squash team: we lost to Harvard University just before the break 4-5, came back to school early to lose to Yale University 4-5 and eventually lost to Cornell University 4-5 last Friday. We are all obviously very frustrated because of the tense losses. As the team …