The 27th annual Bartlein Squash Championships is taking place at the Santa Barbara Athletic Club, beginning Friday and running through the weekend.On Saturday night there will be a professional exhibition match between David Palmer, former world No. 1 and current world No. 8-ranked player, against Julian Illingworth, the current U.S. National Champion, ranked 32nd in the world. The exhibition is a fundraiser for the Santa Barbara School of Squash.The SBSOS supports the needs of … [Read more...]
Nava steps up, captures title at Decathlon Squash Open
Friday, July 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
There was barely enough room in the car for Miguel Nava to go on a road trip to the Decathlon Open squash tournament in Santa Clara recently.At the tournament, there wasn’t an opening in his division, so he was forced to play up a division.That didn’t matter to the unflappable Nava. The huge underdog rose to the occasion and won the championship of the 4.5 division. He beat top-seeded Garrett Gargan in a five-set semifinal and topped No. 2 seed Jai Padmakumar in a thrilling five sets … [Read more...]
Cate squash takes on SBAC, SBSOS
Friday, January 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Cate School’s varsity squash team played two informal round-robin squash matches with six members of the Santa Barbara Athletic Club and four of the most experienced students from the Santa Barbara School of Squash on Sunday Jan 18. The SBAC members prevailed seven matches to six, and the SBSOS students also won seven while only losing four. In the highest ranked match of the day, Rohit Goswamy from Cate retrieved almost everything while adding enough winners to best Eduardo Mendez 3-0, … [Read more...]
Cate squash has best week in program history
Monday, December 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
It has to have been the best week of Cate School Squash Team history for both quality and quantity. Everyone improved, everyone had some wins, and the team bonding was even better. As a coach, it is what you aspire to. I could not be more proud. Sunday December 7 we traveled to the Los Angeles Athletic Club to play a combined group of LAAC juniors, the newly formed women’s club team from USC, and the USC men’s B Team. JP Rothie coaches the USC teams, and Stephan Castelyen, the newly … [Read more...]
