Last month, at the Arlen Specter Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cornell University’s Veer Chotrani took down Trinity College’s Mohamed Sharaf in a 4 game battle to claim the 2024 CSA National Collegiate Individual Championship, but that title was far from Veer’s first major accomplishment in college squash. The 4 time All American, Ivy League Player of the Year, and Skillman Award winner joined Jackson and Gilly on Squash University this week.

Veer recapped his incredible run to the Individual title last month, wrapping up an undefeated season for the Big Red, before talking about training with Cornell head coach and former World #1 David Palmer last summer. Finally, Gilly finished things off with a barrage of rapid fire questions.

Huge thanks to Veer for taking the time this week and for his positive contributions to college squash with his play and his impeccable sportsmanship over the last 5 years. Enjoy!

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Mike MacDonald took the position of Head Coach of the Denison University men's and women's squash programs on short notice in the fall of 2022, but as an alumni of the Big Red himself, it was a job he couldn't pass up. Having just concluded his second year as head coach and in Denison's third season as a varsity program, Coach MacDonald is ready to take his programs to new heights.

Among Coach Mike's biggest accomplishments in his coaching career, thus far, was successfully recruiting renowned 2 time Deroy Silver Junior Champion Jackson Bragman to headline his first recruiting class for the Big Red. After months of begging and pleading, Coach Mike has finally agreed to join Jackson and Gilly on Squash University for an exclusive interview.

Coach Mike discusses his time playing for Denison as a club program before getting into his early days in coaching, ultimately leading him to accept the head coaching position at Connecticut College, where he held the position for 5 years before coming back to Granville Ohio to take charge of the storied program at Denison. Jackson and Gilly also ask the 2009 Denison grad about how he plans on taking Big Red squash to the next level, his laid back approach to coaching, and what he learned from selling knives during the summer of 2007.

It was awesome to have a class act and a total character in Coach Mike MacDonald on the show this week and we look forward to doing it again soon. Huge thanks to him for making some time for us. Enjoy!

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The University of Pennsylvania Quakers are your 2024 CSA Men's National Champions! After an amazing season full of talking about teams across college squash, this episode is all about our guy Gilly and his boys hoisting the Potter Cup for the first time in school history. And what better way to do it than live, in person, at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center in the heart of Philadelphia, PA, the site of Penn's National Championship win less than a week prior.

Gilly tells Jackson how it feels to finally win a National Championship for the school he played for almost 2 decades ago and what it means for the Penn Squash program before the gents welcome on Penn team captain Roger Alber Baddour to recount the team's trials and tribulations throughout the year and how they were able to avenge their 2 regular season losses, to Princeton and Trinity, in the National semifinals and finals.

It was so cool to record live from the Specter Center during last week's CSA Individual Championships. Huge congrats to our brand new CSA Women's Individual National Champion, Harvard's Saran Nghiem and the men's champion, Trinity's Mohamed Sharaf.

Huge thanks to Roger for joining us and congrats for helping lead his team to its first ever National Championship. Enjoy!

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