The inaugural season for the Drexel men’s and women’s squash teams has nearly come to a close. Both teams already competed in their respective postseason tournaments, and each walked away with two wins and a loss. For the men, that meant defeating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 8-1 and Johns Hopkins University 8-1 while falling [...]
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Men’s squash finishes their season at Conroy Cup
A season is, in its most basic form, a journey. Every journey has its peaks and valleys, zeniths and nadirs. Such can especially be said for the Drexel men’s squash team in its inaugural season. As the season comes to a close, the Dragons finished with a solid final performance as a team at the [...]
M. squash heads to CSA National Championships
All the hours of morning practices, conditioning drills and technical skill sessions manage to come down to this moment. Every story has its ending, and all of them, regardless of the who’s and what’s and where’s and why’s, have a say in how it comes out. The first season for the Drexel men’s squash team [...]
Squash has mixed results in final matches of season
The Drexel men’s and women’s squash teams’ first regular season as varsity programs left the women (0-11) finishing off the regular season at home losing to Brown University 0-9 Feb. 4. The men (7-9) split matches against Brown and Swarthmore College Feb. 4 and 8, respectively. The men lost to Brown 1-8 but defeated Swarthmore [...]
Squash christens
The Drexel women’s squash team had their first home match in program history as they welcomed Haverford to the Kline and Specter Squash Center at the DAC. If you were to look at the schedule of the men’s and women’s squash teams for the 2011-12 season, you would quickly notice something slightly unorthodox. Every single [...]
Squash opens new courts Feb. 2
Beginnings can bring about an array of emotions, ranging from excitement to nervousness to anticipation. In the case of the Drexel men’s (4-5) and women’s (0-5) squash teams, all of these emotions and more have applied during their first full season of play. The fall portion of the season has come to a close, with [...]
Squash falls to UPenn in their final match of the fall
In his first year as head coach of the Drexel Wrestling team, Matt Azevedo has found mixed results. After splitting their opening weekend with one win and one loss, the Dragons looked ahead to the Cornell Body Bar in Ithaca, N.Y. Azevedo is pleased with the success that the team has had, but he stresses [...]
Squash continues tourney
Two of the world’s Top-25 male squash players compete during the 2011 Delaware Investments U.S. Squash Open, which was hosted by Drexel on it’s specially-made courts in the John A. Daskalakis Athletic Center from Sept. 30-Oct. 6. The men and women’s squash teams competed in the first part of a two-weekend round robin this past [...]
Squash prepares for tough competition at Navy
Two of the world’s Top-25 men’s squash players compete at the DAC during the 2011 Delaware Investments U.S. Squash Open, which took place from Sept. 30-Oct. 6. After taking a 1-1 split in their series with Haverford College last week, Oct. 26-27, the Drexel men’s and women’s squash teams leave the state of Pennsylvania and [...]
Squash opens first ever season
In the first-ever games for the Drexel squash varsity programs, the Drexel women’s and men’s squash teams earned a 1-1 split at Haverford College in their inaugural season openers Oct. 26 and 27, respectively. Out of the two teams, the men were the ones to collect the program’s first-ever win with a 9-0 victory, while [...]
DU athletics welcomes squash to list of sports
The U.S. Open Squash Tournament was just an appetizer. The tournament, held Sept. 30-Oct. 6 on Drexel’s campus, would only be a small taste of what lays ahead for the inaugural squash season at Drexel. After the one-week event, squash fans will now be able to enjoy a yearlong schedule of squash at Drexel University. [...]
Squash’s US Open hosted at the DAC
Squash players from around the country gathered at the Daskalakis Athletic Center at compete at the U.S. Open. This is the first year Drexel hosted this national event, with hopes to do it again in the future. It was in late January 2011 when Drexel announced it would host the 2011 U.S. Open Squash Championships [...]
Squash prepares for Division I season with Open
Drexel University is continuing to show their commitment to athletics as the Dragons men’s and women’s squash teams are set to begin their inaugural season as National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I programs. “It is great to be able to compete at the highest level of college squash,” the team’s first head coach, and world-class [...]
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The freshman’s guide to Drexel Dragon athletics
by Alex Falk on September 16, 2011 in Commentary, Crew, Field Hockey, Golf, Men's Basketball, Men's Lacrosse, Men's Soccer, Sports, Squash, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Women's Basketball, Women's Soccer, Wrestling
The Drexel women’s crew varsity eight boat, pictured above, is one of many premiere athletic teams at Drexel. The men’s and women’s crew program as a whole has outperformed competitors consistently over the past three seasons, including their stronghold on the local, yet renowned, Dad Vail Regatta. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JULIA FISHER — ASST. SPORTS [...]