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George Washington: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

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George Washington: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

After winning the Hoehn Cup in 2018, the George Washington Men’s Squash team is eager to get back on court and to start competing again.  Winning the B Division championship and clinching the 9th spot in the final 2017-2018 team rankings were two first-time accomplishments for a team that is clearly on the rise. Now GW can set their sights on the logical next step for a team who captured its first Hoehn Cup crown: breaking into the A Division for the first time in program history.  The timing may not be better for Head Coach Wendy Lawrence and her crew.  Eight of the ten starters from last year’s championship run return to the lineup, including Second Team All-American Mahmoud Abdel-Maksoud and experience Number 2 player Jamie Oakley.  Add to the mix three promising first-year players, and Lawrence will have a deep, competitive, battle-tested squad at her disposal.  Yale, the team GW beat in that Hoehn Cup final, comes calling again in the regular season, but GW will have to unseat one of the teams ahead of them – Princeton, Penn, or Rochester – in order to reach their goal for the year.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  16-6

Final Ranking:  9

Team Championships Result:  Winner of the Hoehn Cup (B Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Wendy Lawrence

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Mahmoud Abdel-Maksoud; 2. Jamie Oakley; 4. Salim Khan; 5. Mohammad Al-Terki; 6. Inaki DeLarrauri; 7. Julian Jervis; 9. Juan Laguna; 10. Zane Jeka

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Oisin Logan; 8. Billy Berner

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Idan Hare
  • Manaav Mandhian
  • Abbas Saeed

Team Goal:  To break into the A division for the first time in program history

Key Matches:  Western Ontario, Penn, Princeton, Rochester, Yale

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

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

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

After four straight CSA Women’s National Championships, including last year’s undefeated season, Harvard Women’s Squash is the team to beat yet again in 2019.  The returning lineup is stacked with numerous All-America and All-Ivy League award winners, including four of the top five players – Individual National Finalist Gina Kennedy, Pan American medalist Sabrina Sobhy, and First Team All-Americans Kayley Leonard and Amelia Henley.  As if the crew of returning players wasn’t challenging enough, Head Coach Mike Way has added three first-year players with top notch credentials.  The battle for playing time within their own locker room will be fierce, which will only hone the Crimson’s skills as they prepare to take on all comers.  In the regular season this year, Harvard will take on nine of the other ten teams that appeared in the top 11 spots of last year’s rankings, hoping to show once again that they are the best of the Ivy League and the Women’s CSA competition.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  15-0

Final Ranking:  1

Team Championships Result:  Winner of the CSA Women’s National Championship (Howe Cup, A Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Mike Way

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Georgina Kennedy; 2. Sabrina Sobhy; 3. Kayley Leonard; 5. Amelia Henley; 7. Eleonore Evans; 8. Sophie Mehta; 9. Hannah Craig; 10. Annika Engstrom

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Alyssa Mehta; 6. Sue Ann Yong

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Hana Moataz
  • Grace Steelman
  • Amina Yousry

Team Goal:  To be in contention for the Ivy League and National titles

Key Matches:  Trinity, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Penn

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

Franklin & Marshall: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

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Franklin & Marshall: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Season Preview

Don’t let Franklin & Marshall Men’s Squash team’s record fool you.  They played one of the toughest schedules in the country last year, which likely paid off as they made it to the Summers Cup final, ultimately losing a tough 5-4 match.  The final ranking of 18 shows that F&M can play tough, and they will look to continue that success into 2019.  Head Coach Gavin Jones has this to say about his team: “We are looking to continue on our journey in strengthening our team culture while representing Franklin & Marshall College with Pride and Passion, while upholding our high standard of academic excellence.” That team culture should be well ingrained with the top eight members of the starting lineup from the team championships returning for another year. Joining that group and fighting for playing time will be Jones’s four recruits, making depth a strength of this squad. That C Division final loss was to Dickinson College, a conference rival, and the two teams will meet in the regular season to see if F&M can avenge the result. Other key regular season matchups include rankings-deciding tilts with Bates and Middlebury.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  5-15

Final Ranking:  18

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

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Gavin Jones

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Sanjay Jeeva; 2. Silvio Soom; 3. Yannis Senkel; 4. Samm Fulton; 5. Boden Polikoff; 6. Kingman Bassett; 7. Ricardo Machado; 8. Frank Murray

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Jack McCord

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Matthew Dukarm
  • Ned Mylod
  • Aryan Parekh
  • Allen Tompkins

Team Goal:  “We are looking to continue on our journey in strengthening our team culture while representing Franklin & Marshall College with Pride and Passion, while upholding our high standard of academic excellence.”

Key Matches:  Bates, Cornell, Middlebury, Dickinson

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

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

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

The upcoming 2018-2019 season offers a chance for the Haverford Women’s Squash team to achieve something the team has not accomplished in 10 years: finish within the top 30 of the CSA team rankings.  The Fords finished right at Number 30 last year, their highest since 2009, and they have high hopes that they will better that mark by the end of this season.  Their goal is to build on the improvement shown last year, but they will have to stay focused, confident, and composed in order to reach those new heights.  They will have to do so without graduated senior Isabelle Gotuaco, who tied the program mark for career victories in her final match playing for Haverford.  Leading the way will be top returners Kaitlin Reese, who already has 21 wins to her name in only two seasons, and Number 2 player Madeleine Hager.  Also joining the seven returning starters will be three newcomers, filling out what Head Coach Niki Clement hopes will be a formidable lineup in 2019. Haverford has a home-and-home series with budding rival Vassar and will also meet Mount Holyoke and Bard at the Pioneer Valley Invitational in its quest for a new program-high ranking.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  7-10

Final Ranking:  30

Team Championships Result:  6th in the Epps Cup (D Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Niki Clement

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Kaitlin Resse; 2. Madeleine Hager; 4. Sunyoung Chai; 5. Tia Brown; 8. Sophie Jackson; 9. Belen Madariaga; 10. Steph Lukez

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Isabelle Gotuaco; 6. Olivia Franco; 7. Grace Fioramonti-Gorchow

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Isabelle Johnson
  • Shreya Singh
  • Urgyen Wangmo

Team Goal:  For each player to strive for excellence in their game play and training, and to perform at their highest ability, physically and mentally.  To build on our improvement from last year as individual players and as a team.

Key Matches:  Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Bard, Georgetown

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

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

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

Middlebury College’s Women’s Squash team has established itself as a perennial top-16 team in the annual CSA Team Rankings, finishing 15th or 16th in four out of the last five years.  Now Head Coach Mark Lewis and his deep squad of returning starters hope to replicate the success of Middlebury teams from the early 2010s when they were finishing in the top half of the Kurtz Cup (B Division) results.  This year could be the year to do it with three-time All-NESCAC selection Beatrijs Kuijpers returning for her senior season at the top of the lineup along with eight other teammates with vital playing experience in starting roles.  The team’s other All-NESCAC awardee, Lucy Bostwick, is gone to graduation, but Lewis welcomes four incoming recruits who could have an immediate impact.  Middlebury faces every team ranked between 11 and 21 in last year’s final list, which sets them up with important matches almost every weekend of the regular season.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  12-10

Final Ranking:  15

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

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Mark Lewis

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Beatrijs Kuijpers; 3. Alexa Comai; 4. Anne Glassie; 5. Natalie Madden; 6. Virginia Schaus; 7. Emily Beinkampen; 8. Mira Chugh; 9. Natasha Lowitt

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Lucy Bostwick; 10. Lily Bogle

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Hadley Barr
  • Gwen Davis
  • Ideal Dowling
  • Summer Hornbostel

Team Goal:  To move up in the B division

Key Matches:  George Washington, Williams, Amherst, Bates, Virginia

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

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

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

In his first year at the helm of the Fordham Men’s Squash team, Head Coach Sahel Anwar lead his team to a program best 19 wins and a jump of 8 spots in the rankings, from 42 to 34.  They were upset in the Chaffee Cup finals by noisy neighbors NYU, but Anwar hopes the big jump in the rankings is a sign of things to come.  Extra coaching time with Anwar should help some of the returning players to step in holes at the top of the ladder caused by the graduation of Number 2 player Peter Yuen and Number 3 John Lennon.  Additionally, Fordham has attracted several promising recruits from some storied high school programs who will look to compete for playing time right away.  Once again, the Rams have a robust schedule with 23 matches on the docket.  Using their New York City home as a destination for rising teams and club programs, they will host two round robin weekends in December, which should be a fun exhibition of squash in the Big Apple.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  19-4

Final Ranking:  34

Team Championships Result:  2nd in the Chaffee Cup (E Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Sahel Anwar

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Will Pantle; 4. Bruce Czachor; 5. Griffin Fitzgerald; 6. Tommy White; 8. Justin Deckoff; 9. Will Beatrez; 10. Justin Esposito

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Peter Yuen; 3. John Lennon; 7. Joseph Hughes

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • George Holiat
  • Dylan Panichello
  • Henry Poehlein
  • Winthrop Reed IV
  • Patrick Rodden

Key Matches:  Vassar, NYU, Bucknell, Bard

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

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

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

The University of Pennsylvania Women’s Squash team had high hopes coming off a National Final appearance in 2017, but injuries and inexperience troubled the team throughout the 2017-2018.  Even though the Penn women avenged a regular season loss to Columbia at the National Championships, finishing sixth in the Howe Cup was not what they had been hoping for. Graduation claimed two parts of the Penn’s All-American triad – Melissa Alves and Marie Stephan – leaving reigning CSA National Champion Reeham Salah to lead the charges.  Salah will aim to reach her fourth straight Individual National final in her senior season while hoping to lead the Quakers back into the top half of the A Division.  Head Coach Jack Wyant will look to two returning players, Rowaida Attia and Jessica Davis, to slide into those vacated spots at the top of the lineup, along with incoming first-year Jamila Tamer.  Players from last year’s Number 4 through 10 slots all return providing much needed depth and experience as long as they can keep the injuries at bay.  Penn will take on their typical Ivy League rivals for a chance at the trophy, and they will meet Stanford’s squad on one of their east coast swings. All Penn home matches will be held at Drexel’s Daskalakis Athletic Center while their home courts undergo a major renovation.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  8-8

Final Ranking:  6

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

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Jack Wyant

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Reeham Salah; 4. Haley Scott; 5. Lindsay Stanley; 6. Cameron Munn; 7. Julia Buchholz; 8. Clare Kearns; 9. Nicole Windreich; 10. Margaret Frantz; also returning: Rowaida Attia, Jessica Davis

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Melissa Alves; 3. Marie Stephan

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Jamila Tamer

Key Matches:  Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell

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

Drexel: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Preview

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Drexel: 2018-2019 Men’s College Squash Preview

Over the previous five seasons leading up to last year, the Drexel Men’s Squash team steadily marched up the rankings, finishing as high as sixth in 2017. With some key players missing from the roster last year, however, they took a step back, finishing the year in 13th place. One of the biggest missing pieces was former Number 1 player Omar El Atmas. El Atmas returns in 2018-2019 along with other top contributor Luke Willemse to give Head Coach John White’s squad some optimism about their chances of rejoining the A Division in the coming year.  Joining El Atmas and Willemse at the top of the order will be experience senior Bransten Ming and Second Team All-American junior Lucas Rousselet, who made a run in a Molloy Division (B draw) bracket at CSA Individual Nationals to earn that honor.  White performs an even swap in roster numbers, losing four players to graduation but gaining four promising first-years, including big-hitting Matias Knudson out of Colombia.  The battles around the 8-12 ranking positions will be some of the toughest of year with teams looking to jump into the A Division draw, and Drexel will be right in the middle of it all. Historic powerhouse Yale, upstart Virginia, and hungry Cornell all face Drexel during the regular season looking to capture an edge in the rankings.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  9-11

Final Ranking:  13

Team Championships Result:  5th in the Hoehn Cup (B Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  John White

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Bransten Ming; 2. Lucas Rousselet; 4. Dylan Kachur; 7. Josh Hughes; 9. Mostafa Aboul Makarim; 10. Royston Raymond; Also returning: Omar El Atmas, Luke Willemse

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Atticus Kelly; 5. Nat Fry; 6. Noel Solomon; 8. Cillian Dunne

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Shaan Dalal
  • Noel Heaton
  • Matias Knudson
  • Filip Krueger

Key Matches:  Virginia, Yale, Cornell, Western Ontario, Naval Academy

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

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

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

Having fallen in the rankings as far as 11th five years ago, the Dartmouth Men’s Squash team looked to be falling prey to the growing parity in college squash.  The 2018-2019 season, however, showed what resurgence looks like, with the Big Green earning their highest ranking – fifth – since 2004. The leader among the players who epitomized much of that success was senior Number 1 player Alvin Heumann, a calm, steady presence at the top of the ladder with a never-say-die attitude who earned First Team All-America status in his final year.  Now Heumann is gone, along with classmates Jack Harvey and Brian Giegerich, and Head Coach Hansi Wiens is looking to reload.  He appears to have done just that with the additions of successful American junior players Jack Bell, Max Finkelstein, and Tucker Martino. After achieving Top-5 status again a year ago, Dartmouth will look to maintain that level of excellence through 2019 and beyond.  Doing so will mean holding off the likes of Rochester, Penn, and Princeton, or perhaps supplanted Columbia or St. Lawrence, all of whom Dartmouth meets during the regular season.

2017-2018 SEASON RECAP

Season Record:  13-5

Final Ranking:  5

Team Championships Result:  5th in the Potter Cup (A Division)

2018-2019 SEASON PREVIEW

Head Coach:  Hansi Wiens

Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Carson Spahr; 3. Matt Giegerich; 4. Toby Harding; 5. Brandon De Otaduy; 6. Sam Epley; 8. James Bell; 9. Reg Anderson

Graduated/Non-Returning Players from Team Championships:

  1. Alvin Heumann; 7. Jack Harvey; 10. Brian Giegerich

Additions to 2018-2019 Roster:

  • Jack Bell
  • Max Finkelstein
  • Tucker Martino

Team Goal:  Top 5 in the country

Key Matches:  Columbia, Rochester, St. Lawrence, Penn, Princeton

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

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