CSA Women's Emerging Team Initiative

Nov 1 2007 - The College Squash Association announced today an exciting opportunity for newly organized women's squash club programs to obtain funding from the CSA to attend the Emerging Team Championship Cup presented by Bear Stearns. The new Women's Emerging Team National Tournament will take place concurrently with the Howe Cup National Championships in late February. "Our goal is to give women on campuses without active programs the incentive and boost to organize a group of five women to actively compete in February and to jumpstart an ongoing organized squash program, " explained CSA women's vice president, Shona Kerr. "We have been wanting to start this program for several years," said team development chairman David Talbott. "Now with the support of Bear Stearns, we can proceed." The tournament will involve teams of five undergraduate women each, limited to programs that have not had full-fledged intercollegiate squash programs in the past. Any team that assembles a group of five committed players and enters the event, will have their hotel lodging and meal costs at Princeton NJ covered for the weekend. Women's clubs interested in entering the Emerging championships should contact the CSA's executive director Ron Beck at ronbeck@squashtalk.com. The Naval Academy has already announced it will be entering a team of five women in this new event.