MIT, home of may of the world's finest budding engineers, is also an enthusiastic and diverse hotbed of participatory sports. Squash has always been a mainstay of the MIT sports curriculum, but for the past decade has labored in increasingly dingy and anachronistic facilities.

Enter the new era of MIT squash.

MIT starts the 02-03 season with sparkling new courts and in an enthusiastic rebuilding mode. Having risen to a #19 finish in the final team rankings last year, MIT squash will again find itself in a rebuilding mode this season.

Individual losses were significant (4 players out of the top 7) especially
at positions #2 Simon Bradbury and #5 Rob Finn.

Fortunately for the engineers, #1 Kunal Surana and #3 Naveen Goela return to anchor the top of the line-up. Kunal Surana finished a very successful '02 campaign at #41 in the NISRA singles rankings. He returns as MIT's #1 player. Naveen, who hails from Andover, has a year of college competition now under his belt. He posted a strong record last year playing at the #3 spot . He will move up the ladder to fill the vacated #2 position this season. And, playing in the recently completed Zesiger Center squash facility should help to energize this year's squad.

Key Recruits are Adam Bushashia who joins the MIT squad as the top freshman recruit. He played the #1 position for the Brooks School last season.