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...championship match against Princeton contrasted with the national title match a year ago between Harvard and Yale. That match, which the Crimson pulled out 5-4 by virtue of a thrilling, come-from-behind 3-2 game victory by Ben-Shachar, went down in squash history as one for the ages--comparable in racket history to the 1981 Borg-McEnroe Wimbledon final...
...Harvard women's squash team had another incredible, dominating season in 1994-95. The Crimson went undefeated to win its fourth straight WISRA (Women's Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association) national championship, and its eighth in the 12 years since the championship has been established...
...would be hard pressed to find that kind of domination in collegiate athletics--except, of course, on the men's side of Harvard's squash dynasty, which is racking up titles as quickly as the women. Who is more dominant in its squash world--the Harvard men or women--is unclear, but what is clear is that the Harvard women captured it national title in breathless fashion...
...even then, she showed what Harvard women's squash is really about when she played with an exhausting...
What that means is that like Harvard men's squash, domination will be the word again--at least for the near future. While other sports at Harvard struggle, squash keeps humming along and along. 1994-1995 was a banner year (as usual), and Harvard sports fans better leave more room on the wall...