For a second straight year, Team USA’s Amanda Sobhy and France’s world No. 4 Camille Serme will clash in the FS Investments U.S. Open quarterfinals after all eight top seeds progressed Tuesday, October 8, at Drexel University’s Daskalaskis Athletic Center in Philadelphia.
Serme, the tournament’s two seed, was the first...
The sixth-annual Character in Sports Day at the 2019 FS Investments U. S. Open highlighted sportsmanship on Tuesday evening as the Round of 16 was contested on court.
Throughout the 115-year history of US Squash, said Kevin Klipstein, the President & CEO of US Squash, the association has celebrated the...
Tonight at the FS Investments U.S. Open, Jay Nelson received the 2019 Robert W. Callahan Sportsmanship Award. The honor was presented by Kevin Klipstein, the president and CEO of US Squash. Klipstein joined Kristen Callahan, Matthew Callahan, and Nelson on the ASB GlassCourt. “Winning with grace is a core...
Tonight at the FS Investments U.S. Open, US Squash awarded the 2019 Feron’s Wedgwood Sportsmanship Trophy to Pat Millman. Kim Clearkin, US Squash’s vice-president of programs and events, presented the award.
“Sports not only build character, but they also reveal character,” Clearkin said. “I have heard it said many times...
Colombia's world No. 9 Miguel Angel Rodriguez has withdrawn from the 2019 FS Investments U.S. Open as a result of an injury sustained in his third round match against Australia's Ryan Cuskelly Monday night.
Rodriguez appeared to sustain the injury towards the end of the third game, just before clinching...
Rowan Rocks King in Career Upset to Reach U.S. Open Quarters; Farag and El Tayeb Progress
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Nineteen-year-old Egyptian Rowan Elaraby saved two match balls before coming back to pull off the biggest upset of her career over world No. 6 Joelle King, while 2017 champions Ali Farag and Nour El Tayeb safely progressed to the quarterfinals Monday, October 7, at Drexel’s Daskalakis Athletic Center in Philadelphia.
Since 1991, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Year has been US Squash’s highest award for achievement in international competition. Today at the 2019 FS Investments U.S. Open, Todd Harrity was given this year’s award.
“We are so proud of Todd and all that he has...
Carol Jacobs was honored during the SquashSmarts VIP Night at the 2019 FS Investments U.S. Open tonight with the 2019 SquashSmarts Distinguished Youth Service Award.
More than two hundred SquashSmarts staff members, students, parents, donors, advisors, and board members attended the SquashSmarts VIP Night. Founded in 2001, SquashSmarts has just...
Team USA made history this past summer at the 2019 Pan-American Games in Lima Peru, producing the greatest performance in U.S. history with five gold medals. All six members of the delegation, Todd Harrity, Chris Hanson, and Andrew Douglas, Amanda Sobhy, Olivia Blatchford Clyne and Sabrina Sobhy were recognized...
The fortieth-annual U.S. Intercollegiate Squash Doubles Championships, presented by the U.S. Jesters Club, as Navy and Penn swept up the titles Sunday, October 6. Philadelphia Cricket Club hosted the tournament, which was originally started in 1942.
Twenty-four teams came from six universities: Brown, Columbia, Drexel, Fordham, Franklin & Marshall and...