HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College men's squash team returns all nine players from last year's squad that went to the Chaffee Cup and finished with 11 victories, the most since the 2006-07 season.
The Fords ended last season winning five of the last seven matches to jump to No. 38 in the final national rankings. Sophomore Peter Dudley led the team with 12 victories, two shy of the single-season record. Senior captain Laurenson Ward and sophomore Aaron Horwitz set career highs in victories (10) while sophomore Zach Cole became the first player in program history to be named the Harrow Sports College Men's Squash Player of the Week. Senior Will Greer (eight) and junior Chris Hoogstraten (seven) also set personal marks in wins as well.
Senior captain Nathan Vestrich-Shade, a 2015 CSA Scholar Athlete, scored seven victories at the No. 1 ladder and participated in the CSA Individual Championships. Horwitz will settle in at the No. 2 position after he returns from a semester abroad while Ward registered nine of his 10 wins last season at No. 3. The rest of the ladder will shape out with Dudley (No. 4), Greer (No. 5), Cole (No. 6), Hoogstraten (No.7), and senior Alex Egilman (No. 8), another 2015 CSA Scholar Athlete. Other contributors will include sophomores Shilin Jog, Aron Schwartz, freshmen Yash Singh, Ryan Durkarm and Alex Liu.
Haverford has some important matches on the schedule with Fordham at Navy (Nov. 7), Boston College (Jan. 30) and NYU (Feb. 13) at the GIAC Squash Courts. The Fords will get the 2015-16 campaign underway vs. Swarthmore on Saturday (12:00 p.m.).