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Junior Colin West fell just short of a berth in the national championship match this weekend at the CSA National Individual Championships in Williamstown, MA. The star of the Harvard men’s squash team, who was the third seed in the Potter Cup, fell in five games to No. 2 seed Mauricio Sanchez of Princeton. After taking the first two games of the semifinal match, West faltered, and Sanchez walked away with the 3-9, 6-9, 9-1, 9-2, 9-4 victory. West advanced to semifinals with a pair of wins on Saturday over Trevor McGuinness...
...Harvard women’s Squash team capped off a successful season this weekend with a strong showing at the CSA Individual Championships held at Williams College. Six Crimson players represented Harvard in the Ramsay Cup, which selects the top 32 players nationwide. Despite its youth—the Crimson was represented by two juniors, two sophomores, and two freshman—four out of the six advanced to the round of 16, more than any other school. Harvard No.1 Freshman Nirasha Guruge, seeded seventh, had a strong showing in her first singles appearance in the Ramsay Cup, advancing...
...single regular season, a Harvard squash player meets each equally seeded adversary from opposing teams only once. It is a fleeting opportunity to upset the competition and climb in the national rankings. If there’s a time for individual skills to be tested, rematches to be played, and grudges to be settled, it’s this weekend as members of the Crimson head to the 2009 Collegiate Squash Association (CSA) Individual Championships.“You only get to play each team once during the regular season,” said junior No. 1 Colin West...
...single regular season, a Harvard squash player meets each equally seeded adversary from opposing teams only once. It is a fleeting opportunity to upset the competition and climb in the national rankings. If there’s a time for individual skills to be tested, rematches to be played, and grudges to be settled, it’s this weekend as members of the Crimson head to the 2009 Collegiate Squash Association (CSA) Individual Championships.“You only get to play each team once during the regular season,” said junior No. 1 Colin West...
...Well-heeled freshmen, including Roosevelt, enjoyed the luxury of Gold Coast dormitories—ornate, privately owned residence halls that often included swimming pools and squash courts. These newly constructed buildings had recently replaced the antiquated Yard dormitories as the epicenter of student life...