Harvard's Gemmell keeps a clean sheet
In freshman her freshman season, Harvard's Laura Gemmell took the squash world by storm. She won 14 of 16 matches without dropping a game.
In freshman her freshman season, Harvard's Laura Gemmell took the squash world by storm. She won 14 of 16 matches without dropping a game.
With a roster comprised of 90 percent underclassmen, the women started their season by sweeping Cornell, 9-0. In another beginning, Jack Wyant dropped his first game as men's squash coach to the Big Red, 5-4.
In addition to seven freshmen men and the three first-year women, the team welcomes new assistant coach Amy Gross, who was hired in mid-October.
The No. 5 women (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) dominated once more, winning 9-0. The men (0-2, 0-1) suffered another defeat, losing 8-1 to the Diplomats.
With a roster comprised of 90 percent underclassmen, the women started their season by sweeping Cornell, 9-0. In another beginning, Jack Wyant dropped his first game as men's squash coach to the Big Red, 5-4.
In addition to seven freshmen men and the three first-year women, the team welcomes new assistant coach Amy Gross, who was hired in mid-October.
Now a senior, Madeira is the captain and only upperclassmen in coach Jack Wyant’s program. The consensus is that she’s knocking the ball out of the park — or the court.
This weekend, both the men’s and women’s squash teams will travel to New Haven, Conn. to compete in the Ivy League Scrimmages.
Through three consecutive trips to the finals match, senior Kristen Lange has yet to return to Penn with the ever-elusive national title.
In the end, the No. 1 Crimson proved to be the stronger team, defeating the No. 3 Quakers 6-3 yesterday in the tournament’s final round.
After four stellar seasons, quartet of Penn seniors is gunning for a squash national title at Howe Cup
Though valuable seniors leave the program each spring, the Penn women’s squash family never really gets smaller.
The Quakers lost 8-1 to Harvard Saturday, leaving the Crimson in sole possession of first place. The league championship hinges on Harvard’s trip to Yale Friday. If the Crimson win, they secure the title outright.
Nabilla Arrifin has already had considerable success at Penn, earning a CSA No. 15 national ranking and playing at the top of the team's ladder 3 times.
The senior captain of Women's Squash was selected to represent the Quakers’ student-athlete body at the reception in Cherry Hill, N.J., where she sat on the dais with the Phillies manager and Eagles coach.
In the final home game of their careers in front of their biggest crowd of the season, emotional seniors led W. Squash to a victory over rival Princeton.
For the past three years, the showdown with the Tigers has proved to have defining consequences, with the winner of the match going on to the Ivy title.
After only losing three games during its past nine matches, No. 3 Penn fell to No. 2 Trinity 5-4 Saturday afternoon in Hartford, Conn.
The women’s squash team faces arguably its biggest challenge of the season tomorrow against Trinity, but the funny thing is, they aren’t worried about it.
Following two 9-0 victories against Amherst and Williams, the No. 3 Quakers have swept their last six matches and have won nine straight games this season.