Specter Center News

Alex Jaffe Tops Twin Sister Sam in GU19 Final; Dartnell Claims Second National Title

Alexandra Jaffe defeated her twin sister and DeRoy Sportsmanship Award co-honoree, Samantha, in a five-game GU19 final, while BU19 top seed Alexander Dartnell claimed his second national title without dropping a game on finals day of the 2025 U.S. Junior Squash Championships Sunday, March 16, at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center in Philadelphia. View all results on the U.S. Junior Squash Championships tournament page. Livestream...

Bryan Patterson Honored as High School Championships Marks Twenty Years of Girls’ Championships

Bryan Patterson (center) with US Squash President & CEO Kevin Klipstein and Greenwich Academy Co-Captains US Squash marked the twenty year anniversary of the U.S. High School National Championships for girls by honoring Bryan Patterson, the founder of the event. A new permanent trophy for the Patterson Cup for the Division 1 girls’ national championship was dedicated in honor of the milestone Saturday,...

GA and Brunswick Complete Historic Scholastic Sweep at High School Nationals

  Connecticut’s brother-sister schools Greenwich Academy and the Brunswick School made history by winning the U.S. High School Championships and U.S. Middle School Championships in the same year for the first time Sunday, February 23, at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center. The 2025 U.S. High School Championships is the largest squash tournament in the world featuring more than 1,600 players competing on 203 teams across...

Philadelphia Public League Celebrates Third Season

The Philadelphia Public League marked the end of its third squash season with its culminating team championships, February 11, at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center. Two years ago, US Squash, SquashSmarts and the Philadelphia School District partnered to introduce squash into the Philadelphia Public League’s roster of sports with the Specter Center and SquashSmarts Lenfest Center serving as the homes for practice and match...

Houston Sweeps Hybrid Titles at Interscholastics; GA and Stoga Win JVs

The Houston boys and girls teams presented by Champion Fiberglass took home both Hybrid division titles, while the Greenwich Academy B and Conestoga B teams won the JV divisions at the 2025 National Interscholastics January 24-26, at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center in Philadelphia. The National Interscholastics–which marked its fifth staging–incorporates a unique format that encourages regions without high school squash teams to provide...

Egypt, U.S. and Pakistan Earn U.S. Junior Open Titles

The 2024 U.S. Junior Open Squash Championships–the world’s largest individual squash tournament with 1,007 players representing fifty-one nations–saw just three nations earn titles as Egypt, the United States and Pakistan shared the spoils Tuesday, December 17, at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center. View all results on the U.S. Junior Open tournament page. Live stream replays will be available December 18 on the US Squash Youtube...

New York City Wins First Howe Cup in Eight Years

The Howe Cup trophy will return to New York City for the first time in eight years and the nineteenth time in the tournament’s ninety-year history as the top seeded NY Fab Five defeated Philadelphia’s Pheisty Phive 5-0 in the final Sunday, November 10, at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center in Philadelphia. 300 women competed on teams of five players across four divisions in...

Latasha Khan and Illingworth Join U.S. Squash Hall of Fame

US Squash inducted Julian Illingworth and Latasha Khan into the United States Squash Hall of Fame at a special luncheon before the finals of the 2024 Comcast Business U.S. Open Squash Championships Saturday, October 26, at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center. Illingworth won the National Singles nine times, reached world No. 24 and earned three medals at the Pan American Games. Khan won the...