Word: racquetment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's squash team did not get a player past the quarterfinals of the main draw, but Laura Kaye and Jackie Corrigan still managed to qualify for All-Ivy status at the Women's Intercollegiate Squash Racquet's Association Championship weekend at Bowdoin...
Tomorrow and Monday, the men's varsity squash team will be in Detroit for the United Sates Squash Racquet Championships. The Crimson, seeded third in the six-man championships (regular collegiate squash tournament slates are for nine players from each team) will look to knock off second-seeded Princeton, which dumped Harvard 6-3, one week ago. That's the number-one priority...
...this point, Tong accidentally hit Harrison in the head with her racquet. It seemed to wake Harrison up. Playing with a new intensity, the Crimson ace won 12 of the next 13 points to win the third game...
Jimmy Arias isn't an asshole any more. He doesn't toss his racquet or curse; he pouts only occasionally. More often he follows a miscue with a fierce sneer as he stomps cross court, determined to punish the ball for betraying him. The youngest player ever to receive an Association of Tennis Professions (ATP) world ranking has risen above the junior tennis mentality that constricted my back hand on big break points and has been the downfall of many wunderkind who far surpassed me in talent. He is playing now to challenge himself, to fulfill a greatness he knows...
...front of Mom and Dad? The experience did, however, teach me a lot about who I often perform for and why it hurts so much to lose. And I got to see Jimmy Arias playing like the little brat he once was. You will probably see him heave his racquet someday too--but only in joy, after hitting a scorching passing shot for game, set and match...