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The Princeton Tigers men's squash team is the intercollegiate men's squash team for
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
located in
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. The team competes in the
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within the
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. The university created a squash team in 1930. The current head coach is Sean Wilkinson.


History

John Conroy, who coached for three decades (1940-69), won 180 matches and the program's first Ivy League title in 1957, and he is also an inductee in the College Squash Hall of Fame. Both a College Hall of Fame and US Squash Hall of Fame inductee, Bob Callahan, who retired following the 2013 Ivy League championship season, won the most matches (316) and Ivy League titles (11) in program history. Princeton's most historic victory came in 2012 national team championship final over Trinity, in which the Tigers ended a sensational 13-year winning streak for
Trinity The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (, from 'threefold') is the central dogma concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the F ...
. Princeton was down 4–2 in the match and rallied to win 5–4. * 2012 National Champion


Year-by-year results


Men's Squash

Updated February 2023.


Players


Current roster

Updated February 2023.


Notable former players

Notable alumni include: * Yasser El Halaby '06, Former world no. 40, 54–6 career record, 4x 1st-team All-American and 4x 1st-team All-Ivy, 4x individual national champion, widely considered to be the best ever collegiate squash player *
Todd Harrity Todd Harrity (born September 16, 1990) is an American professional squash player who reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 34 in February 2022. Currently, he is the 2nd ranked American squash player, and is also a three time National ...
'13, Current world no. 37, 59–10 career record, 4 PSA titles, 4x 1st-team All-American and 4x 1st-team All-Ivy, 2011 individual national champion, Skillman Award Winner *
Youssef Ibrahim Youssef Ibrahim (born 2 March 1999 in Cairo) is an Egyptian professional squash player. As of July 2022, he was squash rankings, ranked 11 in the world. Ibrahim currently studies at Princeton University and plays No. 1 for the Princeton Tigers m ...
'22, Current world no. 17, 43–12 career record, 6 PSA titles, 3x 1st-team All-American and 3x 1st-team All-Ivy, 2022 individual national runner up


See also

*
List of college squash schools This is a list of Universities in the United States, colleges and universities in the United States and Canada that field squash as a varsity sport or a club sport and are members of the College Squash Association, College Squash Association (CSA). ...


References


External links

* {{Ivy League men's squash navbox College men's squash teams in the United States Sports clubs and teams established in 1930