<p>I am looking for colleges where my son can play squash. He plays on high school team but is not recruitment calibre, so could be a nice fit for small liberal arts college that is building its program. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Does this link help? [2010-2011</a> Season Previews | College Squash Association](<a href=“http://collegesquashassociation.com/archives/season-previews/2010-2011-season-previews/]2010-2011”>http://collegesquashassociation.com/archives/season-previews/2010-2011-season-previews/)</p>
<p>I’m guessing Kenyon and Notre Dame are newer programs.</p>
<p>How timely! My youngest is currently playing JV squash! (And FWIW, it seems like most/all colleges have squash courts, if he’s just looking to get some exercise/have some fun. My oldest has taken it up at college.)</p>
<p>There are a lot more colleges with varsity squash teams or clubs than show up in those CSA previews. But squash is a weird college sport. The recruitment pool is world-wide. The powerhouses are Trinity College (the one in Hartford) and lots of Ivies, and many small LACs maintain high rankings, while the bottom of the heap is occupied by places like Notre Dame, UNC, Duke, USC, Oregon, Purdue . . . . The world upside-down.</p>
<p>D has had a lot of fun attending squash matches at Williams. [url=<a href=“http://williams.prestosports.com/sports/msquash/index]Williams[/url”>Men's Squash - Williams College]Williams[/url</a>]
(Link is to their men’s squash program)</p>
<p>University of Rochester has a very active squash program and lots of students attend the matches.
[University</a> of Rochester Athletics and Recreation](<a href=“http://www.rochester.edu/athletics/squash/]University”>http://www.rochester.edu/athletics/squash/)</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. Williams would be considered a top squash program that recruits, Trinity I know at the top. I’m finding that lots of small LACs and southern schools don’t have squash courts at all.</p>
<p>You’d be surprised at what some colleges consider to be ‘recruitable’ material for Squash. Apart from the top 5-10 programs that recruit internationally, most of the other colleges with Squash programs recruit mainly US kids.</p>
<p>What is your son’s current ranking? </p>
<p>For example take the 2009-2010 end of year rankings for BU19. There were several kids ranked in the 60-70’s who made it to decent schools: 66 Charles Lebovitz (Brown), 73 Theodore Buchsbaum (Columbia), 95 Martin Goman (Columbia).</p>
<p>If your son is good enough to play on the high school team, then my guess is that he probably is in the top 100 nationally and would therefore be recruitable.</p>
<p>check out the collegeiate rankings
1-20 ranked schools are very competitive (top 10 have a ton of foriegn players…basically forget it), Rankings of 20-30 quite competitive (they need 3-4 years good experience to play there, US players mostly), after that lot of club teams where it is easy to play. [Rankings</a> | College Squash Association](<a href=“http://collegesquashassociation.com/archives/rankings/]Rankings”>http://collegesquashassociation.com/archives/rankings/)<br>
the bigger thing is you can probably take it for PE and learn a life game, plus the top schools have courts…which obviously are open a lot of the time and available to the rest of the school. Have heard a lot of the SEC schools are putting in courts, but don’t know. Friend of mine rebuilds courts (he is a world class player) so I could ask him who is putting courts in - he bids on all of the jobs. My daughter also plays D1 for Hobart-Wm Smith. Top 25 or so program, and I run my son’s HS program, so feel free to ask away.</p>