Lake Placid Team-Building Retreat
To kick off the new season, 117 CitySquash team members and staff travelled to Lake Placid for a four-day wilderness retreat at Camp Monserrate and Camp Holy Child. This year’s retreat marked the first trip that students from the Bronx and Brooklyn teams took together – making it the largest team outing […]
CitySquashers Capture Three Urban Individual National Titles
Sixty-nine CitySquash team members travelled to Williams and Amherst Colleges this past weekend for the 13th annual Urban Individual Nationals. CitySquash team members competed alongside over 400 other urban squash players in the largest Urban Individual Nationals to date. In the end, our Bronx players made it to the finals […]
CitySquash Route 66 Fundraiser Ride
Bryan Patterson, CitySquash’s Director of Squash, and a group of CitySquash team members and supporters have embarked on a bike ride from Los Angeles to Chicago along Historic Route 66. In total, the route is over 2,000 miles long and will take approximately four weeks to complete. Riding alongside Bryan is a cohort […]
Parent Squash Night
On Tuesday November 28th, over 30 parents joined their children on the squash courts for CitySquash’s first Parent Squash Night. Parents and team members were divided into two teams for a variety of activities: three-quarter court, offense-defense, and squash lessons. Many parents quickly realized that the sport is not as easy as it looks! […]
Mentor-Mentee Ping Pong
On November 20th, 60 CitySquash mentors and mentees headed to the Upper West Side to Chen Wang’s Table Tennis Club for the third annual mentor-mentee ping pong event. For many of our 5th grade team members, this was the first time that they were able to meet their mentees in-person. In addition to battling it […]
Black & Orange 2014
Nearly 150 CitySquash supporters, volunteers, students, and parents gathered in the Fordham Field House for the 4th Annual Black & Orange Day. The participants were divided into two teams, Black and Orange, and competed against each other in smaller groups in Capture the Flag, squash, Moccer (soccer with a giant exercise ball), and Zoom. […]
CitySquash Traveling Squash Professionals
On October 1st, Emma Beddoes and Eddie Charlton traveled to the Bronx to be inaugurated as CitySquash’s Traveling Squash Professionals. Emma, the current #20 ranked player on the women’s tour, has known CitySquash’s squash director Bryan Patterson since attending his SINCE86 Squash Camps in the UK many years ago! Both Emma and Eddie, a […]
Project Sunshine Service Day
On Saturday, March 29th, 59 team members from third through tenth grade gathered at Fordham University for the annual Project Sunshine community service project. Project Sunshine is a nonprofit organization that provides cards and craft kits for children in hospitals. The CitySquash team, which included mentors, staff, and volunteers, was provided with the materials, and […]
BU13 Win Urban Team Title
Fifty- five CitySquashers travelled to Philadelphia for the Urban Team Nationals on the weekend of January 24-25. Team members were coached by the CitySquash staff, including academic directors who we’re learning a thing or two about squash themselves! The tournament was hosted by SquashSmarts, and brought together 12 of the 15 NUSEA programs. Matches were […]
Annual Talent Show and New Team Members
On December 19th, CitySquash families, friends, mentors and staff gathered at MS 45 for a night of singing, dancing, and new team members. The Annual Talent Show is a highlight of the year for CitySquashers, not only because students get to show off their abilities outside the classroom and the court, but also because we […]