More Tournament Success For CitySquash Team Members
Over the past month, CitySquash team members have continued to build on early season success. CitySquash brought home four more divisional titles from their last two tournaments along with numerous significant results. On November 19th, 12 CitySquashers traveled to Pyramid Squash Club in Tuckahoe, NY for the Thanksgiving Silver Tournament. In the BU13 division, Billy […]
A Fall Full of Service and Culture for CitySquash Students
CitySquashers have been busy this fall with community service and cultural outings around the neighborhood and beyond. On October 16, our middle school and high school students joined CitySquash staff, mentors, and hundreds of others to participate in New York City’s annual 5K Terry Fox Run. Students raised over $1300 for cancer research and got […]
Start of the Squash Season Brings Success
The first month of the 2010-2011 squash season has passed and CitySquash has already won five titles. On the weekend of October 23rd, five CitySquashers competed in the Hackley School Bronze Tournament. In the BU-13, CitySquash was too strong for the competition as William Pantle and Gabriel Garcia took the top two spots with Garcia […]
New Courts are a Big Hit
After six months of construction, the CitySquash funded renovation of Fordham University’s squash facility is complete! The five narrow American courts that served as CitySquash’s home courts since 2002 were renovated into four new international courts and are a tremendous upgrade. Each court has a viewing gallery from above and is lit with bright fluorescent […]
CitySquashers Settle Into College
After a summer of anticipation, CitySquash’s newest college class has finally settled into their freshman year. Freddy Hernandez recently made the trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to attend Franklin & Marshall College. In August, long time CitySquasher, Prince Mensah began at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. Jesse Pacheco (who was recently honored as a Bulldogs Care […]
8th Annual Urban Individual Nationals
On Friday June 18th, 50 CitySquashers and seven staff members piled into vans and made the three hour trek to Williams College for the 8th Annual Urban Individual Nationals. For our team members, Urban Individuals is one of the most important competitions of the year. The weekend went great for CitySquash. Our team members made […]
CitySquash participates in AIDS Walk
CitySquash students, staff and mentors participated in the AIDS Walk this past weekend, walking 10 kilometers around New York City and raising money for AIDS research. CitySquashers had a great time, as always, and especially enjoyed participating in this meaningful event with their mentors. Many thanks to all our friends and volunteers who came out […]
CitySquash Reads!
CitySquash held its annual CitySquash Reads! event on Saturday. Students, parents, staff, mentors, volunteers – more than 100 people – read the book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt to participate in our event. The event was a great success! Students and their families thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, discussing the pros and cons of living […]
US Silver Nationals
CitySquash sent four juniors to these Championships, Myriam Kelly, GU19, Darrius Campbell, BU15, and Robert Williams, and Noel Ortega BU11. These Championships were played at Williams College in the beautiful hills of the Berkshires. We were fortunate to have Rebecca Martin find us accommodation in a beautiful timeshare resort 20 minutes from the College. Many thanks […]
Kingsley wins CityView Silver tourney
CitySquashers had a great weekend at the CityView Silver tourney. In the BU-17/19, Andrew came in 2nd place and Seetreeon came in 4th place; Kingsley won the BU-15 event; in the BU-13, William finished 4th, Jeremy finished 5th and Markel finished 6th. On the girls side, in the GU-17/19, Andreina finished 3rd place and in […]