<p>Can you guys help me make a list of colleges on the East Coast with good squash programs? Thanks.</p>
<p>Below are the 2009-2010 Men’s College Squash Association Team Rankings as of January 21, 2010. Listed after each school’s name is their ranking from January 21, 2010.</p>
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<li>Trinity College (1)</li>
<li>Yale University (2)</li>
<li>Rochester, University of (3)</li>
<li>Princeton University (4)</li>
<li>Harvard University (5)</li>
<li>Cornell University (6)</li>
<li>University of Western Ontario (7)</li>
<li>Pennsylvania, University of (Penn) (8)</li>
<li>Dartmouth College (9)
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<li>Williams College (10)</li>
<li>Bates College (11)</li>
<li>Franklin and Marshall College (12)</li>
<li>Brown University (13)</li>
<li>Naval Academy (14)</li>
<li>Bowdoin College (15)</li>
<li>Saint Lawrence University (16)</li>
<li>Middlebury College (17)</li>
<li>Amherst College (18)</li>
<li>Tufts University (19)</li>
<li>George Washington University (20)</li>
<li>Stanford University (23)</li>
<li>Denison University (24)</li>
<li>Colby College (21)</li>
<li>Hobart College (26)</li>
<li>Hamilton College (22)</li>
<li>Connecticut College (27)</li>
<li>Wesleyan University (25)</li>
<li>Northwestern University (28)</li>
<li>Colgate University (29)</li>
<li>Georgetown University (30)</li>
<li>MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (31)</li>
<li>Northeastern University (32)</li>
<li>Kenyon College (33)</li>
<li>Columbia University (34)</li>
<li>Washington, University of (35)</li>
<li>Virginia, University of (36)</li>
<li>Drexel University (37)</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University (38)</li>
<li>Boston College (39)</li>
<li>Boston University (40)</li>
<li>California Berkeley, University of (41)</li>
<li>Vassar College (42)</li>
<li>Haverford College (43)</li>
<li>University of Southern California (USC) (44)</li>
<li>Purdue University (45)</li>
<li>University of North Carolina (46)</li>
<li>Illinois, University of (47)</li>
<li>Swarthmore College (48)</li>
<li>Vermont, University of (49)</li>
<li>Bucknell University (50)</li>
<li>Bard College (51)</li>
<li>Lehigh University (52)</li>
<li>Fordham University (53)</li>
<li>Lafayette College (54)</li>
<li>Notre Dame, University of (55)</li>
<li>Bryant University (56)</li>
<li>Siena College (57)</li>
<li>Brandeis University (58)</li>
<li>Maryland, University of (59)</li>
<li>Tulane University (60)</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<p><a href=“http://collegesquashassociation.com/2010/01/29/2009-2010-men’s-college-squash-team-rankings-1282010/[/url]”>http://collegesquashassociation.com/2010/01/29/2009-2010-men’s-college-squash-team-rankings-1282010/</a></p>
<p>Wow, thanks!</p>
<p>Note that the list above from the CSA website contains programs that have varsity and club level squash programs. There are many on the list that have club level squash only. The club level teams compete with other club level teams, but not with the varsity colleges.</p>
<p>In general most of the colleges ranked below #21 on the list above are club level teams with a few exceptions: Stanford (womens), Colby, Hobart, Hamilton, Connecticut, Wesleyan, MIT, Columbia, Vassar, and Haverford.</p>
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<p>Actually, club squash teams can and do compete against varsity college teams. </p>
<p>The only real difference in playing on club vs. varsity squash is how you’re treated at your own school. Club teams have less resources/money (meaning no scholarships), don’t have any admissions “pull”, and often have part-time coaches rather than full-time (generally student run). </p>
<p>However, club teams are treated just like varsity teams within the CSA. Everyone is able to play each other, everyone is ranked in the same national ranking (although CSA does have a club ranking in addition to the national ranking, which is fairly new), and everyone attends the same nationals. </p>
<p>Obviously, top players generally attend varsity programs. There are a lot of advantages that come with varsity squash programs, and if you can play on a varsity team, you probably want to. But club teams can still be competitive (I remember Northeastern being ranked pretty high a few years ago) and they occasionally have some top players, so if you are a more middle-of-the-road player, it shouldn’t matter that much.</p>