CitySquash Celebrates Five New Boarders

CitySquash held its 8th Annual Boarder Send-Off on Wednesday, July 25th at supporters Cayre and Alexis Michas’s apartment in Manhattan. Friends of CitySquash, mentors, families, staff, boarding school students and past graduates celebrated the beginning of another school year and honored CitySquash’s five new boarding school students: Karina Lazaro (Tabor Academy), Esmeralda Mejia (Loomis Chaffee), […]

CitySquash Students Dine with New Yorker Writer

As part of CitySquash’s Career Dinner series, eight CitySquash college and high school students shared a meal with New Yorker staff writer (and avid squash player) Tad Friend. The group discussed not only Tad’s insights about journalism and the writing process–including an in depth discussion of Tad’s 2003 New Yorker piece “Jumpers” which the students […]

Six More Titles at Urban Individuals

On Friday June 15th, 35 CitySquashers and several staff and student volunteers piled into the bus en route to Williams College for the 10th Annual Urban Individual Nationals. For our team members, Urban Individuals is one of the most important competitions of the year and this year was another huge success. Our team members made […]

Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Win Inaugural Bash Bank Competition

The inaugural CitySquash Bank Competition, held in conjunction with the 10th Anniversary Bash, pitted the largest banks on Wall Street against each other in a friendly competition to see which firms could raise the most money and bring in the most donors for CitySquash. At the end of the two month race, 149 donors contributed […]

Cadienhead Elected Taft Student Body President

Two weeks ago, at the culmination of his junior year, Andrew Cadienhead was elected president of the student body of The Taft School in Watertown, CT. Andrew has had a history of leadership at Taft, starting in 2009 when he was elected as the president of the freshman class. Andrew also served as captain of […]