MSquash founder and teaching professional Katline Cauwels was recognized as the US Squash nominee for the 2024 USOPC Coach of the Year Award during a special presentation at the Comcast Business U.S. Open Squash Championships Saturday, October 19.
Since 1998, the USOPC National Coach of the Year nominee has honored the best coaches at the highest levels of the game.
Cauwels, a junior national champion in her native Belgium and former world No. 40 professionally, moved to the US in 2014 with her husband Shaun Moxham and children, Maddox and Savannah. Shortly after moving to the U.S. Cauwels and Moxham opened their first High Performance Academy MSquash in Port Chester, New York in 2018. Cauwels and Moxham developed MSquash into one of the leading squash programs in the country, producing numerous national champions and nationally-ranked players. Building on the program’s success, MSquash opened a second campus in South Norwalk, Connecticut in 2021.
“It’s special to receive this award,” Cauwels said. “It’s obviously for me my name is on there, but no athlete at MSquash has been coached by one coach, but rather ten coaches and a full team behind everyone. There are physical therapists and strength and conditioning coaches and eight squash coaches. This is not an award just for me, it’s for the entire MSquash team.”
Before receiving the award, Cauwels kicks off the 2024 U.S. Open Squash Championships with the ceremonial first hit.
