SQUASH UPDATE

National Squash League Event

LBC hosted the very first-ever national squash league match in the country This event was a long time in the making and it did not disappoint We attracted 2 of team USA professionals in Timmy Brownell the 2022 US Champion and highest world ranking of 45, along with Spencer Lovejoy the 2023 US Championships finalist and highest world ranking of 66 Sam Scherl the 2022 Harvard captain TJ Dembenski former Yale player Mark Broekman from England now living in the US and highest world ranking of 130 Dillon Huang just graduated from Penn (Zephans brother) and is world number 155

We held a players and presenting sponsors VIP dinner and a draft night in the ballroom and 3 players were selected to play for team Louisville and team Chicago in the singles

We also held a pro-am doubles event and our own Zephan Huang got drafted to play for team Chicago, along with some other very strong Chicago VIP players

For team Louisville, we had Jay Hatcher, Henry Kelsey, and myself There were some fantastic doubles on show Both Jay and Henry played some great doubles, Jay and his partner made it to the semi-finals as did myself However, team Chicago managed to win the doubles event

The first singles match night was played in a new format with 3 timed legs along with subs and power plays and this made for the most entertaining night of squash I have witnessed at LBC in all my time at the club Team Louisville managed to win by just 2 points! The atmosphere was electric with so much noise coming from the squash building from the spectators This meant the match was now leveled at 1-1 with match night 2 to follow

Match night 2 it was team Chicago that came out on fire taking a very quick lead, team Louisville tried extremely hard to get back on level terms however team Chicago managed to keep their noses ahead to win match night 2 and win the overall match 2-1

The pros played matches and ran clinics for the VIPs, adults, and juniors, They also did a question and answer session with the kids and gave away signed shirts and racquets

A very special thanks to Fernando Valdizan, Doug Grissom, and Sam Aguiar for all their help, along with Louise Valdizan for being our event photographer I also want to thank all of our presenting sponsors and many other sponsors , because without your help I simply cannot bring these world-class events to the Boat Club A special thanks go out to all our members that kindly hosted players This is very much appreciated by me and the players, you always step up and again I can’t run events without your help

Finally, I want to thank all the staff at LBC for all their help to make this event truly first class for the players, the VIP’s and the sponsors The future looks strong!