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Teams: Men's Squash: Team
Overview
The Tufts University men's squash program has long been
respected on the national squash scene. A long line of outstanding
players, including several All-Americans, has helped establish this
reputation.
The men's schedule includes New England Small College
Athletic Conference (NESCAC) rivals and Ivy League powerhouses. Now
in his twelfth season with the team is head coach Doug Eng. Last
year's team finished with an 11-12 record and a National Ranking of
#16. The team played for the Hoehn Cup for the first time in
seventeen years. The team trained very hard and made a January Grand
Cayman training trip pay off at Team Nationals.
For the 2006-2007 season, the men's team features the
strongest core of returning players in years and a very fine
freshman class for the third year in a row. Senior co-captains
Spencer Maxwell and Tom Keidel graduated, but are replaced by
tri-captains David Linz, Dan Karlin and Jake Gross, who made the US
under 23 National Team. Joining Gross in his junior year are Kris
Leetavorn, Nelson Schubart, and Jonah Peppiatt. Gross led the team
with a 15-8 record. Best winning percentages were posted by Chris
Martin at .833 (5-1) and Dan Karlin at .667 (12-6).
The sophomore class returns Chris Delaney, Chris Devereux,
Chris Martin, Josh Levinson and Brian Rassel. The freshman class
will see John Subranni (Hill School), Doug DiSesa (Lawrenceville
School), Max Dalury (Gilman School), Zach Bradley (Gilman), and
Scott Leighton (Summit HS) join the team. It is expected that up to
five of the freshmen will start for the team.
Goals for the team in 2006-2007 include a return to the
Hoehn Division at Nationals and going for a ranking in the top 12.
The hard working Jumbos practice at Tufts, Belmont Hill and Harvard
and prepare with on-court pressure drilling, tactical situational
games, and technical work. Non-racquet and off-court practice
includes ghosting, interval training, strength and conditioning, and
flexibility training. The team also works with mental toughness
training and tactical court awareness exercises. The holistic
training philosophy for the Jumbos involves emotional,
tactical/cognitive, physical, and technical training. The Tufts
program is centered on complete development of the student-athlete
and a healthy relationship with communication between players and
coaches.
Tufts squash players train both on and off the court to be
future leaders. Recent graduates have gone on to graduate, business
and medical schools, as well as successful professional and
business careers. Coach Eng holds three degrees from Tufts (BSChE
1984,
MS in 1987 and PhD in 1990), and an EdD in sport pedagogy/psychology
from Boston University. He was the assistant coach at Tufts in
1992-93 and has taught and coached tennis and squash for nearly
twenty years. Eng holds certifications from the United States Squash
Racquets Association (Level II) and the Professional Squash
Association. He has worked with dozens of regionally and nationally
ranked players. He has served on the board of several different
regional and national organizations and committees in squash and
tennis. Eng lectures and writes on sport sciences for squash and
tennis organizations and magazines, and is an expert on sport
psychology and coaching theory.
Coach Eng underwent the elite High Performance Coaching
Program with the United States Tennis Association. He has won
several including two national awards in the past year for his
professional contributions. Over the past two years, he was also
head coach for the women's tennis team and then the men's tennis
team.
Tariq Mohammed is the Associate Coach. He played #1 for
Bowdoin College and was the volunteer assistant coach at Harvard
last year.
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