Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Gilly and Jackson welcome Drexel University's Nico Serna onto the show to preview the season ahead for his Dragons team. He also talks about working with Gilly and Jackson at the Penn squash camp, his scary injury last summer, transferring from Dickinson to Drexel three years ago, and more. Huge thanks to each of you for listening along, and as always, enjoy! Follow Squash University on Instagram below!!! https:...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Jackson shares his projected top 12 men's college squash teams for the 2025-2026 season. Huge thanks to each of you for listening along, and as always, enjoy! Follow Squash University on Instagram below!!! https://www.instagram.com/squashuniversitypod?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Get your Squash U merch here: https://squashpod.itemorder.com/shop/category/603873/ Visit The Squa...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Jackson shares his projected top 12 women’s college squash teams for the 2025-2026 season. Huge thanks to each of you for listening along, and as always, enjoy! Follow Squash University on Instagram below!!! https://www.instagram.com/squashuniversitypod?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Get your Squash U merch here: https://squashpod.itemorder.com/shop/category/603873/ Visit The Sq...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Jackson and Gilly answer your listener-submitted questions about player development, movies and TV, their favorite/least favorite venues in college squash, and more. Huge thanks to each of you for listening along, and as always, enjoy! Follow Squash University on Instagram below!!! https://www.instagram.com/squashuniversitypod?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Get your Squash U merc...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Jackson shares his projected men’s and women’s All-Americans for the 2025-2026 college squash season. Huge thanks to each of you for listening along, and as always, enjoy! Follow Squash University on Instagram below!!! https://www.instagram.com/squashuniversitypod?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Get your Squash U merch here: https://squashpod.itemorder.com/shop/category/603873/ V...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Harvard University's Marcus Lee joins the show as he prepares to embark on his junior season for the Crimson. Marcus shares his experience walking onto the Harvard team as a freshman and playing top 9 last season. He also talks about the satisfaction of improvement, dealing with burnout, and the pros and cons of being a late blooming junior player. Huge thanks to Marcus for joining us this week, huge thanks to each of...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Gilly and Jackson recap their summer coaching together at the Penn squash camp, and look ahead to the 2025/2026 CSA season (0:22). Less than a week before the start of their freshman years at Princeton University, twin sisters Alex and Sam Jaffe join the pod to talk about regularly playing one another in high stakes tournament matches, representing Team USA at the World Juniors in Cairo this summer, what they're most ...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! With only a couple of weeks to go before college squash recruiting gets underway for the high school class of 2027, University of Pennsylvania Director of Squash and Women's Head Coach Jack Wyant joins the show to share an in-depth breakdown of the steps of the recruiting process, what coaches like him are looking for in prospective players, how he sells his program and school to potential recruits, and more. Huge thanks to Coac...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Middlebury College Head Coach and four-time NESCAC Coach of the Year Mark Lewis joins the show. Coach Mark joins Jackson to talk about transitioning from hardball to softball at 25, living with David Pearson for 6 months, lessons learned from a decade of coaching college squash, and more. Huge thanks to Coach Mark for joining us this week, huge thanks to each of you for listening along, and as always, enjoy! The...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Yale University's Lachlan Sutton joins the show. The First-Team All-American sits down with Jackson to talk about baseball, cooking, his first 2 years at Yale, on and off the court, what it would mean to win a CSA National Championship, and more. Huge thanks to Lachlan for joining us this week, huge thanks to each of you for listening along, and as always, enjoy! Follow @lach_cooks on Instagram: https://www.inst...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University and, for the first time ever, welcome to the Squash Podcast Network! Jackson and Gilly are joining forces with Bill Buckingham and Paul Johnson of Squash Radio, and Sean Choi of The Rally Report to launch the SPN, a home for some of the squash world’s biggest podcasts. This is a collaboration that we couldn’t be more thrilled about, so listen along to hear what the Squash Podcast Network has in store and check out our website!&nb...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Jackson is joined by former PSA world #1, current Drexel University head men’s and women’s squash coach, and 2025 Golden Ball winner for "Name of the Year," John White. Coach White talks about his introduction to squash in Australia, being one of the best-liked pro players on tour, reaching the World #1 ranking, knowing nothing about college squash before becoming head coach at Franklin & Marshall in 2007, startin...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Jackson is joined by former Harvard University #1 and current PSA World #26 Marina Stefanoni, following Marina's incredible first full-time season of professional squash. Marina talks about winning the U-19 US Junior Nationals for the first time at just 13 years old, her college recruiting process, her experience (on and off-court) in Cambridge, her thoughts on the impending LA28 Olympics (don't ask what they means to...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Gilly and Jackson discuss the announcement of the new Ivy League postseason tournament (and eradication of the preseason Ivy League Scrimmage), the US National Championships going on at the Specter Center, Jonah Barrington and Sarah Fitz-Gerald's inductions into the PSA Hall of Fame, and the first week of the U Penn summer squash camp, all live from Gilly's Penn office. Huge thanks to each of you for listening along, ...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Jackson is joined by his Denison University teammate and 2025 Liberty League Player of the Year Charlotte Jones to chat about her successful, but exacting, junior squash career, highlights from her first year of college squash, on and off the court, being elected team captain ahead of her sophomore year, and more (2:33). Huge thanks to CJ for joining us this week, huge thanks to you for listening along, and as always,...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Jackson and Gilly are joined by the men's World #32, US #1, and, most importantly, friend of the program Timmy Brownell to recap last week's 2025 PSA World Championships from Chicago, Illinois. The lads discuss the controversy surrounding Mostafa Asal in recent weeks, his historically dominant run through the men's draw, Ali Farag's bounce-back chances at next week's British Open, Olivia Weaver's devastating semi-fina...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! Jackson and Gilly kick off this week’s episode with Tufts University Head Coach, friend of the program, and Gilly’s college teammate at UPenn over 15 years ago, Joe Raho. Coach Joe names his All-Gilly Lane-NBA Team, listing the 5 pro basketball players that best personify Gilly as a squash player and coach (2:06). Then, the boys welcome on another friend of the show, and 4-Time College Squash Association All-American, Matias Knu...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! Gilly and Jackson begin today’s show by discussing the first full day of the Papal Conclave from the Vatican City before diving into a preview of the 2025 Professional Squash Association World Championships, the biggest event on the pro squash calendar, kicking off this week in Chicago, Illinois (0:16). They also react to the release of the 2024-2025 College Squash Association All-American selections and chew over who would win ...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Squash University! This week, Jackson and Gilly kick off the show by breaking down the first match of the 2025 NSL season between the Philadelphia Lightning and the New York City Knights and touch on Gilly's glee over Liverpool's Premier League title (0:16). They then welcome friend of the program Andrew Douglas onto the show. Dougie was a 4-time CSA All-American for Gilly’s Penn Quakers and joins the show this week to talk about playing in the NS...

Welcome to a very special edition of Squash University! This week, Gilly and Jackson welcome the greatest coach in college squash history Paul Assaiante onto the show. In his storied 29-year run as the head coach of the Trinity College men's squash team, Assaiante led the Bantams to 17 CSA National Championships, and recently added 2 more as a special advisor for the Trinity women’s team. Coach A joins Squash U to talk about his tight-knit 20+ year relationship with Gilly, spearhe...