George Washington: 2010 – 2011 Women’s College Squash Season Preview

George Washington: 2010 – 2011 Women’s College Squash Season Preview

Washington, DC — George Washington’s 2009-2010 season started slowly but ended with a dramatic championship win.

An early loss to F&M and several subsequent losses to “B” Division teams put the Colonials in the middle of the “C” Division coming into the Women’s National Team Championships (Howe Cup). A decisive second-round upset of Wesleyan, the top seed in the Walker Cup, however, showed that George Washington had improved considerably down the stretch. The Colonials nosed out Vassar 5-4 in the finals to win the first championship in program history.

The Colonials should be in a good position to carry over their end-of-the-season success into the new season. They did lose three seniors, including number 1 player and 2009-2010 co-captain Kate Bullard. However, George Washington will be getting six first-year players with plenty of squash experience. Jackie Shea, who was ranked 25th GU19 in the US at the end of the 2009-2010 season, is the Colonials’ first National Letter-of-Intent signee. The program will also get its first international players: Kelly Barnes, Bermuda’s 2008 under-19 and under-17 champion; and Kyung Min Kim, who trains with the South Korean national team. Barnes also played number 2 for Taft, and Kim went undefeated in ISL play at St. George’s, where she played number 7. Also joining the team will be Concord Academy’s Becca Imrich; Maya Nair, a graduate of the Hathaway Brown School; and Elizabeth Tapley, who played number 1 for Exeter and was MVP at Newton Country Day in 2009.

With the loss of Bullard and fellow graduates Mallory Ward and co-captain Chelsea Mouta, George Washington will be a young team; only one senior, Eliza Ehrlich, is on the roster. The team will, however, benefit from the experienced leadership of Wendy Lawrence, who has coached the GW men for several seasons. Lawrence is taking over after the departure of Maura Myers, who took the program from its infancy as a varsity team to the Walker Cup championship. Another new face will be Jake Gross, who will be the Colonials’ new assistant coach.

All these new members of the GW team will have their first major test earlier on in the season, when they will face Vassar for a rematch of the “C” Division final. Though there won’t be as much on the line, the match should be a good indicator of where the squad stands.

2009-2010 SEASON RECAP

Season Record: 9-6
Final Ranking: 17
Team Championships: 17th Over All; 1st in Walker Cup (C Division)

2010-2011 SEASON PREVIEW

Program Status: Varsity

Head Coach: Wendy Lawrence (Succeeds Maura Myers)

Returning Players from Team Championships: Paige Beaton (6); Eliza Ehrlich (7); Donna Farizan (9); Tiffany Hingley (4); Toby Leventhal (10); Morgan Masiello (11); Lauren Mathieu (2); Caroline Shumway (3);

Graduates on Last Season’s Team Championships Roster: Kate Bullard (1; GW MVP; 2009-2010 Captain); Chelsea Mouta (5; 2009-2010 Captain); Mallory Ward (8)

Additions to the 2010-2011 Roster: Kelly Barnes, Becca Imrich, Kyung Min Kim, Maya Nair, Jackie Shea, Elizabeth Tapley

To read other team previews, please visit the 2010 – 2011 College Squash Preview Page.

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Avi Agarwal (Princeton University)
Zain Ahmed (Princeton University)
Alex Akbari (Williams College)
Robert Albani (MIT)
Roger Alber Baddour (University of Pennsylvania)
Alexis Ballo (Middlebury College)
Lars Barkman (MIT)
Arav Bhagwati (Yale University)
Atreyus Bhavsar (Hamilton College)
Oliver Bikhazi-Green (St. Lawrence University)
Dean Brooker (St. Lawrence University)
Quintin Campbell (Dartmouth College)
Sebastian Campos (Colby College)
Tad Carney (Yale University)
David Costales (Harvard University)
Hao Cui (University of Pennsylvania)
Marco DiFilippo (Franklin & Marshall College)
Karim Elbarbary (University of Virginia)
Youssef Ezzo (Tufts University)
Garret Fantini (Haverford College)
Nathan Feinstein (Middlebury College)
Juan Felipe Hernandez (Denison University)
Noah Fish (Connecticut College)
Max Forster (Yale University)
Denis Gilevskiy (Harvard University)
Adam Goad (Columbia University)
Max Good (Bates College)
Abhimanyu Gupta (Amherst College)
Francis Evan Hajek (University of Virginia)
Tate Harms (Harvard University)
Pierce Henderson (Williams College)
Grady Herbert (Amherst College)
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Nikhil Ismail (Yale University)
Rohan Iyer (Cornell University)
Thomas (Jack) Winston (Bowdoin College)
Aaryaman Jaising (Haverford College)
Kian Kardestuncer (Middlebury College)
Noah Katzer (Franklin & Marshall College)
Warren Klein (Dartmouth College)
Jacob Koeppel (University of Rochester)
Theo Kogan (Middlebury College)
Gordon Lam (Princeton University)
Asher Leavy (Williams College)
Jack Lee (Williams College)
Aaron Liang (Cornell University)
Will Lichstein (Middlebury College)
William "Mac" Aube (Dartmouth College)
Crispin McCarthy (Fordham University)
Andrew Minnis (Williams College)
Youssif Mostafa (Colby College)
Artemy Mukhin (Bard College)
Simon Muller (Hamilton College)
Zacharias Nam (Columbia University)
Jacob Nathan (Bard College)
Mitav Nayak (MIT)
Petr Nohel (University of Virginia)
William Okurowski (Amherst College)
Alexander Orr (Naval Academy)
Maxwell Orr (Yale University)
Jeh Pandole (Cornell University)
Henry Pelletier (Connecticut College)
Lucas Piller (Denison University)
Philip Hyun Su Price (MIT)
Rohan Ray (Dartmouth College)
Aidan Ray (Dickinson College)
Thomas Rosini (Princeton University)
William Sarbinowski (Cornell University)
Arnaav Sareen (Cornell University)
Kai Schinaman (Haverford College)
Christian Shah (Dartmouth College)
Jacob Shulman (Hamilton College)
Franklyn Smith (Columbia University)
Joe Smythe (Dickinson College)
Federico Sosa (Princeton University)
Lucas Spiro (Naval Academy)
Nicholas Spizzirri (University of Pennsylvania)
Conner Stoltz (Harvard University)
Rafay Syed (Williams College)
Evann Tan (Franklin & Marshall College)
Kerwin Teh (Tufts University)
John Paul Tew (University of Virginia)
Rana Thakkar (Dartmouth College)
Noah Tunis (Haverford College)
Rohan Valia (Tufts University)
Bennett Van Liew (Fordham University)
Roberto Vega (Hobart College)
Matthew Wang (Naval Academy)
Collin Wen (MIT)
Tom Whiteley (University of Rochester)
Nick Wilkinson (Bowdoin College)
Merritt Wurts (Yale University)
Ethan Yan (Wesleyan University)
Omar Zakaria (University of Rochester)

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Alex Brown (Amherst College)
Aleezah Burhan (Tufts University)
Lindsey Burnham (Middlebury College)
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Molly Chadwick (Princeton University)
Chelsea Cho (Dartmouth College)
Thenuri De Silva (Bard College)
Jaclyn Dichter (Wesleyan University)
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Habiba Eldafrawy (Harvard University)
Ainsley Ellison (Connecticut College)
Maureen Foley (University of Virginia)
Catherine Fortin (Haverford College)
Zarine Gidwaney (Franklin & Marshall College)
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Katherine Hennessy (Georgetown University)
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Emma Kahle (St. Lawrence University)
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Josephine Klein (Princeton University)
Gainsley Korengold (Hamilton College)
Christy Tin Yan Lau (Yale University)
Virginia Lawrence (Denison University)
Aubrey Lennon (Dartmouth College)
Katherine Manderlink (Denison University)
Madeleine Martin (St. Lawrence University)
Cate Moll (Dickinson College)
Nieve Monderer (Tufts University)
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Anna O'Connor (Dickinson College)
Mackenzie O'Shea (Colby College)
Lujan Palacios (Trinity College)
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Abbie Peterson (Middlebury College)
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Molly Stoltz (Harvard University)
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