The road to the championships is coming to an exciting end with so much still to play for and only a couple weeks left of the College Squash Association (CSA) regular season. The CSA has posted its penultimate weekly update of the team rankings before the final set of standings come out for the women’s and club teams next week.
The results of the NESCAC Men’s and Women’s Championships, scheduled for this coming weekend, will have a major impact on the final seedings going into the National Championships because of the teams bunched together in places 14-20 in both polls. Only teams ranked nine through 16 earn a berth into B Division at nationals, so multiple teams will be looking for that final victory to either secure their place or put them over the top into the next tier.
Remaining non-conference match-ups like Virginia vs. Penn and Cornell vs. both Virginia and Drexel are the last puzzle pieces to figure out the top divisions in both varsity championships. Friday’s Virginia-Penn women’s match and the full match-up between Cornell and Drexel are not to be missed. The women’s positions five through nine are still totally unsettled after CSA overturned Yale’s result against Columbia due to a disciplinary issue.
The club team rankings are also coming into clearer view with the National Collegiate Club Team Championships scheduled for Feb. 17-19 at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center in Philadelphia. The new club rankings reflect a mix of regular season results and an assessment of likely starting lineups for the championship event.
The full set of rankings can be viewed here below, while fans should look for regular updates on the College Squash Team Rankings page all season.
| Women’s Varsity Team Rankings as of 2/6/2023 | |||
| Varsity Rank | Overall Rank | Team Name | Previous |
| 1 | 1 | Trinity College | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | Harvard University | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | Princeton University | 3 |
| 4 | 4 | Drexel University | 4 |
| 5 | 5 | Cornell University | 5 |
| 6 | 6 | Columbia University | 8 |
| 7 | 7 | Yale University | 6 |
| 8 | 8 | Virginia, University of | 7 |
| 9 | 9 | Pennsylvania, University of | 9 |
| 10 | 10 | Dartmouth College | 10 |
| 11 | 11 | Tufts University | 11 |
| 12 | 12 | Stanford University | 12 |
| 13 | 13 | William Smith College | 13 |
| 14 | 14 | Williams College | 14 |
| 15 | 15 | Amherst College | 15 |
| 16 | 16 | Middlebury College | 16 |
| 17 | 17 | Bowdoin College | 17 |
| 18 | 18 | Georgetown University | 18 |
| 19 | 19 | Franklin & Marshall College | 19 |
| 20 | 20 | Colby College | 20 |
| 21 | 21 | Wesleyan University | 21 |
| 22 | 22 | Chatham University | 22 |
| 23 | 23 | Dickinson College | 24 |
| 24 | 24 | Denison University | 23 |
| 25 | 26 | St. Lawrence University | 26 |
| 26 | 27 | Haverford College | 25 |
| 27 | 28 | Bates College | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | Hamilton College | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | Connecticut College | 29 |
| 30 | 31 | Vassar College | 30 |
| 31 | 35 | Mount Holyoke College | 31 |
| 32 | 44 | Bard College | 32 |
| Women’s Club Team Rankings as of 2/6/2023 | |||
| Club Rank | Overall Rank | Team Name | Previous |
| 1 | 25 | Brown University | 1 |
| 2 | 32 | Boston College | 2 |
| 3 | 33 | Chicago, University of | 3 |
| 4 | 34 | Northeastern University | 4 |
| 5 | 36 | Washington Univ. in St. Louis | 5 |
| 6 | 37 | Boston University | 6 |
| 7 | 38 | Fordham University | 7 |
| 8 | 39 | Colgate University | 8 |
| 9 | 40 | Wellesley College | 9 |
| 10 | 41 | North Carolina-Chapel Hill, U. of | 12 |
| 11 | 42 | Bucknell University | 11 |
| 12 | 43 | Smith College* | 10 |
| Men’s Varsity Team Rankings as of 2/6/2023 | |||
| Varsity Rank | Overall Rank | Team Name | Previous |
| 1 | 1 | Harvard University | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | Pennsylvania, University of | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | Princeton University | 3 |
| 4 | 4 | Yale University | 4 |
| 5 | 5 | Trinity College | 5 |
| 6 | 6 | Virginia, University of | 6 |
| 7 | 7 | Drexel University | 7 |
| 8 | 8 | Cornell University | 8 |
| 9 | 9 | Columbia University | 9 |
| 10 | 10 | Dartmouth College | 10 |
| 11 | 11 | Chatham University | 11 |
| 12 | 12 | Western Ontario | 12 |
| 13 | 13 | Rochester, University of | 13 |
| 14 | 14 | Williams College | 14 |
| 15 | 15 | Tufts University | 15 |
| 16 | 16 | MIT | 17 |
| 17 | 17 | Franklin & Marshall College | 16 |
| 18 | 18 | Bates College | 18 |
| 19 | 19 | Amherst College | 19 |
| 20 | 20 | Middlebury College | 20 |
| 21 | 21 | St. Lawrence University | 22 |
| 22 | 22 | Hobart College | 21 |
| 23 | 23 | Colby College | 23 |
| 24 | 24 | Hamilton College | 24 |
| 25 | 25 | Bowdoin College | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | Naval Academy | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | Dickinson College | 28 |
| 28 | 29 | Wesleyan University | 27 |
| 29 | 32 | Haverford College | 29 |
| 30 | 33 | Connecticut College | 30 |
| 31 | 34 | Denison University | 31 |
| 32 | 41 | Fordham University | 32 |
| 33 | 42 | Vassar College | 33 |
| 34 | 53 | Bard College | 34 |
| Men’s/Co-Ed Club Team Rankings as of 2/6/2023 | |||
| Club Rank | Overall Rank | Team Name | Previous |
| 1 | 26 | Brown University | 1 |
| 2 | 30 | George Washington Univ. | 8 |
| 3 | 31 | Georgetown University | 2 |
| 4 | 35 | Pennsylvania, Univ. of (CLUB) | 3 |
| 5 | 36 | Chicago, University of | 4 |
| 6 | 37 | Cornell University (CLUB) | 19 |
| 7 | 38 | California-Berkeley, U. of | 10 |
| 8 | 39 | Boston University | 5 |
| 9 | 40 | Northeastern University | 6 |
| 10 | 41 | Bucknell University | 7 |
| 11 | 44 | Dartmouth College (CLUB) | 13 |
| 12 | 45 | Richmond, University of | 14 |
| 13 | 46 | Stanford University | 15 |
| 14 | 47 | Michigan, University of | 17 |
| 15 | 48 | Washington Univ. in St. Louis | 16 |
| 16 | 49 | Northwestern University | NR |
| 17 | 50 | Duke University | 21 |
| 18 | 51 | Indiana University | 25 |
| 19 | 52 | UCLA | 22 |
| 20 | 54 | Notre Dame, University of | NR |
| 21 | 55 | Lehigh University | 29 |
| 22 | 56 | Carnegie Mellon University | 27 |
| 23 | 57 | Boston College | 28 |
| 24 | 58 | Drexel University (CLUB) | 18 |
| 25 | 59 | New York University | 12 |
| 26 | 60 | Connecticut, University of | 11 |
| 27 | 61 | North Carolina-Chapel Hill, U. of | 24 |
| 28 | 62 | Virginia, University of (CLUB) | 26 |
| 29 | 63 | Johns Hopkins University | 23 |
| 30 | 64 | Arizona State | 32 |
| 31 | 65 | Harvard University (CLUB)* | 9 |
| 32 | 66 | Washington & Lee University* | 20 |
| 33 | 67 | North Carolina State University* | 30 |
| 34 | 68 | Davidson College* | 31 |
| 35 | 69 | Swarthmore College* | 33 |
| 36 | 70 | Naval Academy (CLUB)* | 34 |
* – Not participating in National Collegiate Club Team Championships.
