The regular season for Drexel Squash came to a close over the weekend as the men’s and women’s teams had their final matches before the postseason begins later this month. The 19th-ranked men’s team took its record to 9-10 on the year with consecutive 9-0 wins against Colgate University and the University of Virginia Feb. [...]
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Squash splits matches against Haverford, GWU
Drexel Squash continued its season Feb. 2 and Feb. 6 as the men’s and women’s teams both ended their recent string of away games with matches against George Washington University and Haverford College. Coincidentally, both teams split those matches. The men (7-10 overall record) lost to George Washington 7-2 but beat Haverford in dominating fashion [...]
Women’s squash routs opponents at the Smith
After a rough fall portion of the season for the Drexel men’s and women’s squash teams, the second half of the season has seen them rebound from that dip in form with some impressive performances. Such continued Jan. 25-27 as the men’s team won three out of its four matches in upstate New York (including [...]
Squash splits contests in Conn.
The second half of the second season for the Drexel men’s and women’s squash teams began in earnest Jan. 19, as both sides faced Colby College and Bowdoin College in New Haven, Conn.. Both teams got split results in their respective matches, beating Colby and losing to Bowdoin. The main contributors for both teams’ wins [...]
Men’s squash falls to the U.S. Naval Academy
At various periods during this season for Drexel Squash, circumstances have acted as humbling experiences, moments from which one can learn. Such was the case Dec. 7 when the men’s squash team lost at home 7-2 to the United States Naval Academy. The loss was Drexel’s seventh of the season so far and served as [...]
Squash losses three on road trip
As they headed into the end of the fall portion of their respective seasons, the expectation for the Drexel men’s and women’s squash teams was that the early-season woes that had befallen them would, hopefully, subside. Such did not happen. Those aforementioned woes continued for the men and women, as their four-match stretch in New [...]
Squash falls to two Ivy schools
It was bound to be tougher the second time around for Drexel Squash. That much was known before the season started for both the men’s and women’s squads. They both had to begin their campaigns with a slate that included four games in 13 days from Nov. 16 to Nov. 28 against four ranked opponents [...]
Squash begins second season with high hopes
The inaugural season of Drexel squash came and went, but it was not without some notable moments. The men’s team won its very first match at Haverford College with a 9-0 scoreline. On, the women’s side, despite starting its season 0-11, won two out of three matches at the Howe Cup later against Vanderbilt University [...]
U.S. Open Squash draws to a close
For all of the vegetable jokes that were made Oct. 4-10, the U.S. Open of Squash took a serious turn Oct. 11 as the tournament headed into its final rounds. By the completion of the matches Oct. 5, Nicol David had cemented her position as the No. 1 female squash player in the world, while [...]
DAC hosts U.S. Open of Squash
For the past eight days, Drexel University’s Daskalakis Athletic Center has played host to the Delaware Investments U.S. Open Squash Championships. The tournament featured over 50 of the world’s top squash players and boiled down to the quarterfinals Oct. 9 and 10. If you’ve never watched squash before, it closely resembles a combination of tennis [...]
Drexel squash sends two players to national tourney
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 [...]
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
Fresh off a strong showing at the Navy Round Robin in Annapolis, Md., the No. 29 Drexel men’s squash team returned to Philadelphia to face the No. 9 University of Pennsylvania Quakers. After wins against Georgetown Nov. 12 and Washington Nov. 13, Drexel was in for a tough matchup against Penn Nov. 30. The match [...]
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 [...]
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