The most important Intercollegiate Doubles Championships–that includes sixty-three groups from twenty-four faculties and universities–was held alongside the Nationwide Collegiate People for the primary time, March 4-6, on the Arlen Specter US Squash Heart in Philadelphia.
The sphere of three divisions–girls’s, males’s and blended–produced two first-time champions in Brown College and the College of Virginia, and Yale’s first males’s title since 2005.
View all outcomes on the Intercollegiate Doubles event Web page.
Two seeds Sydney Maxwell & Olivia Walsh earned Virginia’s first doubles nationwide title in program historical past within the girls’s division. Maxwell & Walsh superior to the ultimate with out dropping a sport the place they met Brown’s 4 seeds Rachel Mashek & Danielle Benstock. Maxwell & Walsh clinched the title 15-12, 14-15, 15-11, 15-10 in fifty-eight minutes.
Whereas falling brief within the girls’s closing, Mashek loved title success within the nineteen-team Combined division with accomplice Blake Roshkoff. Roshkoff & Mashek, the 2 seeds, arrange an all-Brown closing towards shock finalists Isabella Kearns & Grant Sterman. Roshkoff & Mashek earned Brown’s first doubles nationwide title in any division 11-15, 15-7, 15-8, 15-12 in fifty-eight minutes.
Yale’s Maxwell Orr & Nadav Raziel proved to be the one prime seed to satisfy their seeding within the thirty-one staff males’s division. Orr & Raziel endured a five-game semifinal towards teammates Merritt Wurts & Taylor Clayton to fulfill Penn’s two seeds James Flynn & Yash Bhargava within the closing. Orr & Raziel would go on to raise Yale’s first Butcher-Ball Cup since Julian Illingworth & Trevor Rees, 15-12, 15-10, 7-15, 15-8 in sixty-four minutes.
“It was so thrilling to see the keenness and file numbers on the on the Intercollegiate Doubles,” stated Preston Fast, US Squash Victor Elmaleh Director of Doubles and event director. “For a lot of of those gamers, this was the primary time that they performed aggressive doubles, and most of the groups now have their very own doubles courts to apply at their faculties to arrange for this nationwide championship. We hope competing on this occasion encourages the gamers to return subsequent 12 months and proceed to take pleasure in this life sport after they graduate.”
Whereas doubles shouldn’t be an ordinary a part of twin match play in faculty squash, an intercollegiate doubles event has been held yearly for the reason that late Nineteen Eighties. A doubles event was held sporadically within the Nineteen Forties and Nineteen Fifties, however after the 1956 event, there was no formal intercollegiate doubles competitors for over thirty years. In 1988, William Tredwell “Treddy” Ketcham helped carry again the doubles event. A former participant at Yale who served because the USSRA president from 1965 to 1967, Ketcham was a serious proponent of the doubles sport. He was additionally an achieved participant; between 1965 and 1974, he received the USSRA senior (age 50+) doubles title seven instances, enjoying with 4 totally different companions. The intercollegiate doubles event was renamed in his honor in 1998.
