Ep.71 Laura Massaro
A former world champion and world No.1, Laura Massaro has just come out with a must-read memoir.
Nov 01, 2021•36 min
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Ep.70 Barrett Takesian
Barrett Takesian helped create the pathbreaking Portland Community Squash. Now, the thirty-one year old is helping US Squash make community squash a movement that is dramatically changing the game.
Oct 01, 2021•37 min
Ep.69 Andy Taylor
The voice of tennis at the US Open, Andy Taylor has become a fan favorite as emcee of squash’s Qatar Classic. How he got to Doha is a tale that includes radio morning shows, buckets of ice and The Price of Right live with Jerry Springer.
Sep 01, 2021•30 min
Ep.68 Chris Robertson
Now back at England Squash, Chris Robertson is continuing his run as a world-class squash coach. But he was once a rising star as a player, coming out of Brisbane, Australia to capture the World Junior title in 1984.
Aug 01, 2021•33 min
Ep.67 Renato Paiva
This month Access Youth Academy is opening an exciting, eight-court facility in San Diego. Renato Paiva, the executive director of Access, tells of his remarkable journey from being a junior player in Brazil to leading an innovative urban squash program.
Jul 01, 2021•47 min
Ep. 66 Steve Line—Qamar Zaman
The Conjuror, Qamar Zaman, is the subject of Steve Line’s story behind one of squash’s all-time classic photographs.
Jun 01, 2021•8 min
Ep.65 Greg Zaff
The founder of the squash and education movement, Greg Zaff talks about the original business plan, the people and values that inspired the creation of SquashBusters twenty-five years ago.
May 04, 2021•39 min
Ep.64 Jonah Barrington
Squash’s legendary patriarch, Jonah Barrington, talks with OTG about his early years in the game, including how he scraped through to win his first British Open in 1966.
Apr 01, 2021•44 min
Ep. 63 Marko Podgorsek
One of the world’s leading referees, Marko Podgorsek speaks to Outside The Glass about squash in one of the more hidden and underappreciate corners of the game, Slovenia.
Mar 01, 2021•36 min
Ep. 62 Scott Denne on Enzo Corigliano
In mid-December 2020, Enzo Corigliano died in upstate New York. The twenty-three year-old was a star on the St. Lawrence squash team. His coach, Scott Denne, speaks about his tragic death and the importance of conversations about mental health.
Feb 01, 2021•28 min
Ep.61 Paul Assaiante
The most successful coach in college squash history, Paul Assaiante talks with OTG about ownership, recruiting, parenting and the fear of failure.
Jan 01, 2021•47 min
Ep.60 Steve Line—Head-Butt
At the 1994 British Open, Steve Line shot one of the most legendary images in twentieth century squash: Mir Zaman Gul smacking heads with Anthony Hill. Line tells OTG the story behind the photograph.
Dec 01, 2020•23 min
Ep.59 Ong Beng Hee
The national coach of Qatar, Ong Beng Hee had a storied playing career that started with a huge leap of faith: not yet sixteen, he turned pro and moved from Malaysia to England.
Nov 02, 2020•16 min
Ep.58 Lefika Ragontse
In our continuing series of exploring off-court passions, OTG turns to Lefika Ragontse. The former Trinity star is the owner of Dread Sports and operates three squash clubs in Maryland and New Jersey. But his first love is diamonds.
Oct 01, 2020•23 min
Ep. 57 Gilly Lane
Gilly Lane is the head coach of men’s squash at Penn. As a player and a coach, he has seen the crippling effects the fear of failure can have on a squash player and has some profound and simple ideas about what to do about it.
Sep 01, 2020•35 min
Ep.56 John Massarella
Over the past thirty years, John Massarella has progressed along all the stations of a referee—from marking matches at his club to handling local, national and eventually international events and culminating in refereeing world championship finals. He started with pen and paper and now touches the iPad to keep score and he’s worked under seven different refereeing systems. Massarella speaks of his best and worst matches of his career and why he’d be a terrible coach.
Aug 01, 2020•31 min
Ep.55 Martin Bronstein
Danzig, Bellamy, Rutnagur—the cohort of great squash journalists is small and hard to join. This month, as he turns eighty-five, one of the elder statesmen, Martin Bronstein, tells us about his favorite moments in his forty-plus-year career.
Jul 02, 2020•44 min
Ep.54 Anil Nayar
A U.S. Squash Hall of Famer, Anil Nayar talks with OTG about a couple of pivotal milestones in his career, including the 1969 National Intercollegiates—one of the most famous moments of sportsmanship in squash history.
Jun 01, 2020•24 min
Ep.53 Damien Mudge
The greatest doubles player in history, Damien Mudge captured a record 169 tournaments over his twenty years on the pro tour. But it wasn’t always the smoothest journey for the Australian.
May 01, 2020•27 min
Ep. 52 James Green
James Green is the behind-the-scenes leader of Manhattan Community Squash, the exciting new facility in the heart of New York. Green is one of the most articulate proselytizers for the new model of non-profit, community squash, with accessibility being the core value.
Apr 02, 2020•53 min
Ep.51 Johnny Williams
Johnny Williams is now known as a longtime coach in Switzerland and commentator for SquashTV, but the former world No.15 famously overcame a illness that kept him off court for over three years during his prime. It is a story of resilience.
Mar 01, 2020•35 min
Ep. 50 Off-Court IV: Mike Way
Off the court, Mike Way, the head coach at Harvard and mentor of world champions, loves the combination of the wind and the sea: sailing, windsurfing and, for the past twenty years, kiteboarding. Whether bumping into sharks or cutting the grass, Way is way into kiting.
Feb 01, 2020•23 min
Ep. 49 Melissa Winstanley
Melissa Winstanley had produced close to a hundred professional portable court squash tournaments, including every Tournament of Champions since 1982. Joined by John Nimick, Winstanley tells the ToC saga of waking the rats, waiting on 42nd Street all night for the court to arrive, free telephone calls to Pakistan and doing the seating chart and ticketing by hand.
Dec 31, 2019•58 min
Ep. 48 Amrit Kanwal
The chair of the board of the Squash + Education Alliance, Amrit Kanwal helps lead the urban squash movement, which is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary with a jubilee weekend next month in New York.
Dec 01, 2019•30 min
Ep.47 Derrick Niederman
OTG slips back in time with Derrick Niederman, the longtime referee and Squash News reporter, as he spins tales about Yale’s John Skillman and some of the history’s most fascinating matches at the old Boston Open.
Nov 01, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Ep. 46 Aisling Blake
Former world No.21, Irish national champion and SquashTV commentator, Aisling Blake sits down with OTG to chat about Sligo, Trinity College Dublin and the secret behind Nicol David’s rise to world No.1.
Oct 01, 2019•33 min
Ep.45 OTG Live: Future of Squash
Our first taping of Outside The Glass before a live audience was in New York earlier this year. Kevin Klipstein, Peter Nicol and Barrett Takesian discussed what squash will look like in a few years and how we’ll get there.
Sep 11, 2019•44 min
Ep. 44 Santiago
In 2023 Santiago will be hosting the Pan Am Games. OTG speaks with the famous Pinto family, which helps lead squash in Chile, about the dynamics of the game in South America.
Aug 01, 2019•13 min
Ep.43 Liz Irving
Liz Irving has been Nicol David’s coach for the past seventeen years. As David retires, OTG talks with Irving (the daughter Jenny Irving from Ep.5) about how she guided David to unprecedented heights.
Jul 01, 2019•43 min
Ep. 42 Andrew Shelley
Andrew Shelley might be the most senior leader in squash today: he started working in the game forty-three years ago. As he steps down as CEO of the World Squash Federation, Shelley looks back with OTG on his remarkable early years running the British Open.
May 31, 2019•42 min
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