What do Eric Heiden, Big Bend National Park, Seattle’s Bumpershoot Festival and MLB.com have to do with each other? They are all part of the fascinating, roundabout squash journey of US Squash President & CEO Kevin Klipstein. Listen here to a penetrating and revealing conversation about parenting, sportsmanship and the first time he learned the importance of the T.
What is it like the very first time you hear about squash? Outside the Glass goes to Wilmington, Del., as a new urban after-school program—with the help of some alumni from the Philadelphia program—introduces the game to a group of middle schoolers.
The world’s most obscure racquet sport is sticke. Invented in the 1870s, sticke was all the rage in Victorian England and about fifty courts were built around the world. Three survive today. We visited one in Wiltshire, England to try our hand.
Get to know the best American squash players of the future as they get set to go to the World Junior Championships in Poland.
It is one of the great secrets in the game. In a few days, another Jarvis & Kaplan Cup starts. Founded in 1960, the Jarvis is a week-long inter-provincial team tournament in South Africa. Paul Atkinson and Mark Reid, two Jarvis veterans, explain to James Zug the traditions and hijinks of the Jarvis.
Paul Selby is opinionated, controversial and always an iconoclast. The longtime English coach and father of three ranked professionals, including Daryl Selby, sat down with James Zug and Chris McClintick at the U.S. Open last fall. Selby told of his highly unusual introduction to the game, how he raised his children and his provocative thoughts on developing the game.
Jenny Irving started playing squash in Melbourne in the late 1950s and went on to become the second best player in the world. She reached the finals of the British Open in 1971. Forty-five years later, she came back to the British Open and talked about her regimen of training at 11pm, her daughter Liz Irving and her rivalry with fellow-Australian Heather McKay.
What is it like to grow up with a world champion as a father? Joey Barrington, the SquashTV commentator and former world No.24, speaks about his dad, the legendary champion Jonah Barrington. He talks about ghosting on a South African beach, the uses of an intimidating tan and the moment he told Jonah he was turning pro.
In the 1950s Dick Cooley was ranked in the top ten in the country, a former Yale star and a member of a national championship team from the Pacific Coast. He was playing squash left-handed, although he had grown up a righty; during the Second World War Cooley had lost his right arm when his fighter plane crashed in France, and he learned to play squash left-handed. “Someone believes in you, you can do a lot of things.
For twenty years after-school youth-enrichment programs have been a huge part of the U.S. squash community, but a new program in Israel has a different take on how to change lives and expand opportunities. Outside the Glass went to Raanana, outside of Tel Aviv, to take a look at SquashBond Israel—Sport & Beyond.
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