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Rochester: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

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Rochester: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

After nearly reaching the pinnacle of the college game in 2016, finishing as national runner-up, the University of Rochester Men’s Squash team has finished in the bottom half of the Potter Cup draw for the past two years. With a 5th place finish in 2017 and 6th in 2018, Head Coach Martin Heath and his squad hope to reverse that trend in 2019. Doing so, however, certainly presents a challenge considering the make-up of Rochester’s lineup heading into the season.  CSA Second Team All-American Tomotaka Endo graduated in 2018 along with two of his teammates who were also in the starting lineup, but Heath adds only two first-years to the roster as potential replacements.  Both recruits look to be strong additions to the roster, but the Yellowjackets will need at least one returner from the bottom portion of their ladder to step up into meaningful play right away.  The roster will have to round into shape relatively quickly too with challengers Penn and Princeton traveling to Rochester in early December. With only 12 student-athletes on the roster, sustaining player health late into the season will be vital with Dartmouth and St. Lawrence at the tail end of the schedule.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  9-8

Final Ranking:  6

Team Championships Result:  6th in the Potter Cup (A Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Martin Heath

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Ashley Davies; 3. Ricardo Lopez; 4. Lawrence Kuhn; 5. Matthew Toth; 6. Marcus Sim Wei Jie; 9. Rodrigo Porras; 10. Alex Riedelsheimer

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Tomotaka Endo; 7. Numair Sani; 8. Ben Pitfield

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Cesar Segundo Corona
  • Thijs Van der Pluijm

Key Matches:  Penn, Princeton, Dartmouth, St. Lawrence

To read season previews for other CSA teams, please visit the 2018-2019 College Squash Season Previews page.

Princeton: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

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Princeton: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

The Princeton Men’s Squash team returned to Potter Cup (A Division) competition in 2018 for the first time since the 2012-2013 season.  They squeaked in under the wire in 8th position last season, but the Tigers have a roster that is built to secure their position in Potter Cup play for a few more years. Princeton graduated only two members of its starting squad from a year ago, and both of those players featured in the bottom third of the ladder.  Last year’s top player Youssef Ibrahim is not on the roster as the season opens, but seven other starters return with top-level experience along with rising junior Gabriel Morgan who returns from injury.  Wilkinson also has two promising freshmen joining the squad this year who will gladly take over the playing time of the two graduated seniors.  Both first-years have spent considerable time at the top-ranked position of their respective country’s junior divisions and should have an immediate impact for the Tigers.  The battle for a place in Potter Cup play has been fierce in recent years and this season will not be any different.  Princeton will try to catch Rochester, Penn, and Dartmouth while also holding off eager George Washington and rejuvenated Yale.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  9-9

Final Ranking:  8

Team Championships Result:  8th in the Potter Cup (A Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Sean Wilkinson

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Adhitya Raghavan; 3. Cole Becker; 4. Clark Doyle; 5. Cody Cortes; 6. Duncan Joyce; 8. Alexander Engstrom; 10. Henry Parkhurst; also returning: Gabriel Morgan

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Abhimanyu Shah; 9. Komron Shayegan

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Daelum Mawji
  • Howe Cheng

Key Matches:  George Washington, Rochester, Penn, Dartmouth, Yale

To read season previews for other CSA teams, please visit the 2018-2019 College Squash Season Previews page.

Cornell: 2018-2019 Women’s College Squash Season Preview

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Cornell: 2018-2019 Women’s College Squash Season Preview

The Cornell Women’s Squash team has participated in Howe Cup (A Division) play at the CSA Team Naitonal Championships for the last ten years. 2018 is the closest the Big Red have come to falling out of the top 8, finishing the regular season in 8th place and playing to their seed in the postseason.  Now Head Coach David Palmer faces the biggest obstacle of his short tenure in Ithaca: maintain that level of achievement after losing four out of his five starters from last year’s Howe Cup ladder.  Palmer and his squad will rely on their depth to win the big matches as the bottom half of last year’s lineup is made up of all upperclassmen this year, players with a lot of meaningful experience under their belts.  Assistance will come in the form of a few strong recruits who will aim to get up to speed with the college game right away.  An important match against Ivy League rival Columbia is the culminating match of Cornell’s fall semester, and then they will work to hold their position against hard-charging Dartmouth, Drexel, and George Washington in January.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  10-9

Final Ranking:  8

Team Championships Result: 8th in the Howe Cup (A Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  David Palmer

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Nghi Nguyen; 6. Madison Miles; 7. Colby Gallagher; 8. Lucy Martin; 9. Lauren Leizman; 10. Hannah Scherl

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Michele Garceau; 2. Emma Uible; 3. Margaux Losty; 5. Charlotte Knaggs

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Tory Huchro
  • Stephanie Tan
  • Lily Zelov

Key Matches:  Columbia, Dartmouth, Drexel, Brown, Penn

To read season previews for other CSA teams, please visit the 2018-2019 College Squash Season Previews page.

Penn: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

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Penn: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

Over the last month of the regular season in 2018, the Penn Men’s Squash team endured a grueling stretch of nine matches, including seven contests against teams ranked in the top 9 in the country at the time.  Six of those matches finished with a 5-4 final team score, and Penn had a 3-3 record in matches finishing with that score. Head Coach Gilly Lane will hope the younger members of his squad gained valuable experience from those tight contests because they will face a similar run-in to the CSA Team National Championships this year without four senior starters who have since graduated. The Quakers were as high as 5th in the rankings a few years ago, and Lane appears to have built a lineup that is ready to return to that Top-5 standing as soon as this season.  A few high-impact first-years will hit the court for the first time this year, and they will have a powerful backstop in rising sophomore star Andrew Douglas. Penn will face every team around them in the preseason rankings with all home matches taking place at Drexel University’s Daskalakis Athletic Center while their new courts are being constructed.  Look for Penn to make some noise again in both the Ivy League play and the National Championship picture.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  11-7

Final Ranking:  7

Team Championships Result:  7th in the Potter Cup (A Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:   Gilly Lane

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Andrew Douglas; 4. David Yacobucci; 5. Karim Tarek; 7. Yash Bhargava; 9. Max Reed; 10. Wil Hagen

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Hayes Murphy; 3. Marwan Mahmoud; 6. Derek Hsue; 8. James Watson

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Aly Abou Eleinen
  • Marker Angelakis
  • Zach Bradlow
  • James Flynn
  • Michael Mehl

Key Matches:  George Washington, Rochester, St. Lawrence, Princeton, Dartmouth

To read season previews for other CSA teams, please visit the 2018-2019 College Squash Season Previews page.

Dartmouth: 2018-2019 Women’s College Squash Season Preview

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Dartmouth: 2018-2019 Women’s College Squash Season Preview

Following two straight Kurtz Cup championships in 2016 and 2017, the Dartmouth Women’s Squash team took a small step back in 2018, falling to familiar Kurtz Cup final opponent Drexel.  That was actually Dartmouth’s fifth Kurtz Cup final in six years, dropping their record to such matches to 3-3. The last time the Big Green was not in a B Division final was in 2014, when they finished eighth in the country.  Head Coach Hansi Wiens hopes to revisit that feeling of A Division action at the CSA Team National Championships in 2019.  To reach that level, Dartmouth will need strong contributions from several members of their freshman class to help replace the three starters who Dartmouth lost to graduation last spring.  Wiens will turn to junior Number 1 player Annie Blasberg and returning senior Number 8 player Emma Roberts for leadership as captains of the squad.  The Big Green will get an important opportunity for a rematch early in the season when then take on Drexel in late November. When the calendar changes to the new year, Dartmouth will three tough matches back-to-back-to-back against Williams, Columbia, and Cornell.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  7-10

Final Ranking:  10

Team Championships Result:  2nd in the Kurtz Cup (B Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Hansi Wiens

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Anne Blasberg; 3. Sandra Reiss; 4. Brynn Bank; 6. Julia Potter; 7. Ellie Gozigian; 8. Emma Roberts; 10. Julia Herman

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Rebecca Brownell; 5. Janel Gaube; 9. Zainab Molani

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Darden Gildea
  • Nina Herman
  • Jennifer Lee
  • Emma MacTaggart
  • Caroline Mollenkopf

Team Goal:  To break back into top 8

Key Matches:  Drexel, Williams, Columbia, Cornell, Brown

To read season previews for other CSA teams, please visit the 2018-2019 College Squash Season Previews page.

Navy: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

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Navy: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

Rookie Head Coach Tyler Osborne arrived on base at the U.S. Naval Academy this summer with an impressive playing and coaching resume and a full understanding of the task he was taking on. “Navy has been in the bottom half of the B draw for the last couple years and with the league getting stronger, our goal is to get into the B draw while giving ourselves the best chance to win the first round.” The Midshipmen will get a tough early test at home with team-on-the-rise Virginia visiting midweek this week. It will also be imperative that they protect their position from teams chasing them in the rankings, including regular season foes Cornell, Dickinson, and Franklin & Marshall.  Although the squad loses its top player from last year, Jack Herold, they already have some tough intrasquad competition to see who can grab the top spot.  Included in that top group is team captain Senen Ubina, who will work to eclipse the 70-win plateau for his career during his senior season. Osborne will also welcome five freshman to the squad, who, like their new coach, will be working hard at getting up to speed in a new environment.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  17-10

Final Ranking:  15

Team Championships Result:  7th in the Hoehn Cup (B Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Tyler Osborne

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Michael Kacergis; 3. Jonathan Lentz; 4. Senen Ubina; 5. Owen Davis; 6. Dylan Sweeney; 7. James Kjorlien; 10. Daniel Finnegan

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Jack Herold; 8. Sam McCartney; 9. Greg Hyer

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Will Hyer
  • Ben Korn
  • Gus Prager
  • Thomas Prim
  • Ryan York

Team Goal:  “Navy has been in the bottom half of the B draw for the last couple years and with the league getting stronger, our goal is to get into the B draw while giving ourselves the best chance to win the first round. We are looking forward to a great year with what I’m sure will be plenty of close matches with the teams around us.”

Key Matches:  Virginia, Dickinson, Cornell, Drexel, Franklin & Marshall

To read season previews for other CSA teams, please visit the 2018-2019 College Squash Season Previews page.

MIT: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

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MIT: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

After spending several years ranked in the 30s of the CSA Men’s Team Rankings, MIT made a drastic jump to Number 21 in 2017.  Consistently performing at a new level can be just as challenging as getting there, but MIT was able to show that they are there to stay in 2018, finishing in 22nd position.  Entering the 2018-2019 season, Head Coach Thierry Lincou’s Engineers appear poised to maintain their recent run of success.  Nine of the ten players from the starting lineup at last year’s team championships return to the team this year, lead by sophomore Joe O’Connor and junior Vedaant Kukadia, both of whom were invited to participate in the CSA Individual National Championship tournament in 2018.  The starting roster only loses senior CSA Scholar-Athlete Jeffrey Hu, and Lincou brings in three first-years to add valuable depth to his squad.  The heart of MIT’s schedule will be a challenging stretch of matches in January when they take on Amherst, Wesleyan, Colby, Hamilton, and Bates in a six-day span. Survive that gauntlet, and the Engineers could be ready to compete for the Summers Cup or more.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  16-7

Final Ranking:  22

Team Championships Result:  6th in the Summers Cup (C Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Thierry Lincou

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Joe O’Connor; 2. Vedaant Kukadia; 3. Harry Martin; 4. William Wu; 6. Justin Restivo; 7. Brad Levin; 8. Robert Williamson; 9. Neel Das; 10. Wonjune Kang

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Jeffrey Hu

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Keith Lamp
  • Stuart Rucker
  • Aman Sanger

Key Matches:  Amherst, Colby, Bates, Middlebury, Williams

To read season previews for other CSA teams, please visit the 2018-2019 College Squash Season Previews page.

Dickinson: 2018-2019 Women’s College Squash Season Preview

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Dickinson: 2018-2019 Women’s College Squash Season Preview

Relatively new women’s varsity program Dickinson College has made solid improvement up the rankings since joining the CSA in 2014.  Last year was their biggest jump yet – 5 spots from 23 to 18 – earning the Red Devils the 2018 CSA Women’s Most Improved Team Award.  Number 18 also marked the highest end-of-season ranking ever for the young program.  Changes are afoot in central Pennsylvania, however, which will make it all the more challenging to keep the momentum going.  Dickinson announced the hire of new Head Coach Chris Fernandez in early October, and he will have a short time to get up to speed before the season gets underway next weekend.  Fernandez will greet eight returning starters as he gets acquainted on campus, but he will be missing two key student-athletes who have played a major role in the establishment and success of the young program.  Top player Hedvika Suchankova is not expected to return to the ladder and Stuart Lemay, one of the players who was there on Day 1 of the program, has graduated. Three first-years arrive to help keep the train moving forward, and they’ll have much to prove in an early season matchup with Bates.  The Red Devils also have tough matches on either side of winter break, traveling to Wesleyan in December and meeting Tufts in mid-January.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  10-9

Final Ranking:  18

Team Championships Result:  2nd in the Walker Cup (C Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Chris Fernandez

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Domenica Romo; 3. Eloise Nimoityn; 4. Nicole DeLuca; 5. Aya Sobhy; 7. Jaime-Leigh Edghill; 8. Carley Barton; 9. Abbie Wingerd

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Hedvika Suchankova; 6. Stuart Lemay

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Lindsay Kuracina
  • Rachel O’Brien
  • Courtney Trail

Team Goal:  To finish ranked in the Top 15 in the CSA rankings

Key Matches:  Bates, Wesleyan, Tufts, Amherst, Middlebury

To read season previews for other CSA teams, please visit the 2018-2019 College Squash Season Previews page.

Middlebury: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

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Middlebury: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

The Middlebury College Men’s Squash team finished 2018 in very strong fashion, upsetting two higher ranked teams at the CSA Men’s Team National Championships en route to a Number 19 final ranking.  The team also picked up some nice accolades towards the end of the season with the top two players – Will Cembalest and Jacob Ellen – receiving All-NESCAC honors and Head Coach Mark Lewis earning NESCAC Men’s Coach of the Year for the second straight season.  The success at the end of last season bodes well for this year as the roster will look very similar.  Cembalest, Ellen, and 3rd position player Jacob Kagan return to lead the Panthers along with four additional returning starters.  Lewis added three recruits to that mix, hoping the first-years can plug the holes caused by three seniors graduating.  The experience and depth will pay dividends when Middlebury goes up against the two teams they upset at last year’s Team Nationals, Williams and Bates, early in 2019.  In order to reach their goal of breaking into the top 16, they will have to start by taking down teams like Dickinson and Franklin & Marshall.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  9-12

Final Ranking:  19

Team Championships Result:  3rd in the Summers Cup (C Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Mark Lewis

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Will Cembalest; 2. Jacob Ellen; 3. Jacob Kagan; 5. Wiatt Hinton; 6. John Epley; 7. Alex Merrill; 8. Thomas Wolpow

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Henry Pearson; 9. Ryan Swope; 10. Samuel Giddins

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Teddy Best
  • Justin Ghaeli
  • Nate Moll

Team Goal:  To break into the top 16

Key Matches:  Williams, Bates, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, MIT

To read season previews for other CSA teams, please visit the 2018-2019 College Squash Season Previews page.

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