The 2023 College Squash Association (CSA) National Collegiate Individual Championships continued on Saturday with remaining players competing in semifinal or consolation semifinal matches.
Out of ten divisions in play, six No. 1 seeds progressed to Sunday’s finals, and only three divisions played out according to seeding with the top two players reaching the final. Tushar Shahani from Penn is the highest seed remaining in any division at No. 14.
In the National Championship competition, the upsets continued on the men’s side with both lower seeds earning bids to the Pool Trophy final. Eleven-seed George Crowne from Harvard put in a monumental effort to come back from two games down to outlast Cornell’s Veer Chotrani. Earlier in the day, Trinity’s No. 4 Mohamed Sharaf was locked in against top-seeded Aly Hussein from Virginia. One last time this season, Harvard and Trinity will battle it out for a national title.
In Ramsay Cup competition, top seed Siva Subramaniam from Cornell recovered from a slow start to roll past Virginia’s Meagan Best in three games. Subramaniam is on a quest to repeat as National Champion this season. In Sunday’s final, she will face Columbia’s Chan Sin Yuk (commonly known as Simmi Chan), a player making her first appearance at the National Collegiate Individual Championships. Chan took out Harvard’s Marina Stefanoni, the second seed, in four games.
Semifinal Results by Division
Ramsay Cup (A Division)
(1) Sivasangari Subramanaim – Cornell def. (4) Meagan Best – Virginia
(3) Chan Sin Yuk – Columbia def. (2) Marina Stefanoni – Harvard
Pool Trophy (A Division)
(4) Mohamed Sharaf – Trinity def. (1) Aly Hussein – Virginia
(11) George Crowne – Harvard def. (7) Veer Chotrani – Cornell
Holleran North
(5) Lujan Palacios – Trinity def. (1) Maria Moya – Virginia
(3) Caroline Spahr – Princeton def. (2) Avni Anand – Penn
Holleran South
(1) Liyen Teoh – Princeton def. (4) Madeleine Hylland – Trinity
(2) Serena Daniel – Harvard def. (6) India Stephenson – Princeton
Holleran East
(1) Hannah Chukwu – Trinity def. (4) Khushi Kukadia – Stanford
(2) Lina Tammam – Virginia def. (3) Erica McGillicuddy – Columbia
Holleran West
(2) Aishwarya Khubchandani – Cornell def. (3) Olivia Walsh – Virginia
(5) Brecon Welch – Harvard def. (9) Kara Lincou – Trinity
Molloy North
(1) Joachim Chuah – Trinity def. (4) Yuri Pollak Pelbart – Drexel
(2) Tate Harms – Harvard def. (11) Elliott Hunt – Western
Molloy South
(2) Dillon Huang – Penn def. (3) Denis Gilevskiy – Harvard
(9) Luis Moncada – Rochester def. (5) John Paul Tew – Virginia
Molloy East
(1) Lewis Anderson – St. Lawrence def. (12) Noel Heaton – Drexel
(7) Arav Bhagwati – Yale def. (3) Jose Andres Lopez – Drexel
Molloy West
(1) Abdelrahman Lasheen – Rochester def. (4) Petr Nohel – Franklin & Marshall
(14) Tushar Shahani – Penn def. (2) Nicolas Serna – Drexel
