Tag Archives: Squash

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Squash leads Drexel into the future

Drexel is not typically known as a sports school,  but a change may be in our University’s future. In his first decree involving the Drexel athletics program as president, John A. Fry, in conjunction with Director of Athletics Eric Zillmer, decided not only to promote a sport from the club level to the Division I [...]

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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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Staff compete in Employee Olympics

Drexel faculty members took a break from the daily grind Sept. 7 to compete in the second annual Drexel Employee Olympics, which was comprised of 11 events and included a squash match with President John A. Fry. Sponsored by Drexel’s wellness program, A Healthier U, the main goal of the competition was to promote “healthy [...]

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Squash added as Drexel’s newest Division I program

The Drexel University men’s and women’s club squash programs have competed on the intercollegiate level for only two years. However, squash has been bubbling about Drexel’s campus for much longer than that.   For the last 10 years at this University, athletic director Eric Zillmer has been working tirelessly to increase the awareness of squash [...]

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