2009-10 MEN’S SEASON OUTLOOKUnder third-year head coach Wendy Lawrence, the George Wash-

ington men’s squash team continues to rise to new heights and ispoised to break into the top-20 in the national rankings for the first timein program history this season. The team has recruited three strongfreshmen to join eight returning players.

The men’s team faces a challenging schedule of 18 regular-seasonmatches in addition to the College Nationals in February at Yale. The reg-ular season also includes matches against Brown, Williams, Dartmouth,Yale, Navy and some of the other top programs in the country.

Seventh-ranked U-19 freshman, Omar Sobhy, joins the team in thetop ladder spot followed by sophomore Jose Calderon and senior cap-tain Matt Grossman. Exeter standout, Player Haynes comes to GWalong with freshman Sam Ehrlich, with hopes of cracking the top seven.Returning sophomores Mike Nair, Brett Feldman, Sam Moreno andScott West enter the season in the strong middle ladder spots alongwith junior co-captain, Mike Bower who is abroad until December.

Other returning players include sophomores Matt Nelson-Teutschand Scott West.

2009-10 MEN’S ROSTERName Yr. Hometown/High SchoolMike Bower Jr. Brooklyn, NY/Poly PrepJose Calderon So. Mooresville, NC/Lake NormanSam Ehrlich Fr. Andover, MA/Brooks SchoolBrett Feldman So. Margate, NJ/Atlantic City Matt Grossman Sr. Bryn Mawr, PA/HarritonPlayer Haynes Fr. Bacova, VA/ExeterSam Moreno So. Bogota, Colombia/Colegio NuevaMike Nair So. Cleveland Heights, OH/UniversityMatt Nelson-Teutsch So. Simsbury, CT/Loomis ChaffeeOmar Sobhy Fr. Sea Cliff, NY/ExeterScott West So. Pembroke, Bermuda/Episcopal

Head Coach: Wendy Lawrence (Vassar ’84) — 3rd season

2009-10 WOMEN’S ROSTERName Yr. Hometown/High SchoolPaige Beaton So. Boston, MA/Windsor SchoolKate Bullard Sr. Dartmouth, MA/St. George’sEliza Ehrlich Jr. Andover, MA/Brooks SchoolDonna Farizan Fr. Newton, MA/Noble & Greenough Tiffany Hingley So. Wayne, PA/RadnorToby Leventhal Fr. Marion, PA/Lower MarionLauren Mathieu So. Southbury, CT/WestoverChelsea Mouta Sr. Glastonbury, CT/Loomis ChaffeeT.T. Pasanen Jr. Andover, MA/GrotonCaroline Shumway So. Concord, MA/Choate RosemaryMallory Ward Sr. Atlanta, GA/Galloway School

Head Coach: Maura Myers (Colby College ’04) — 6th season

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Senior Matt Grossman leads a young, but very talented Colonial men's squashteam into the 2010 season.

Sophomore Lauren Mathieu takes over the No. 2 spot after a 10-3 record inher first season on Foggy Bottom.

2009-10 MEN’S SCHEDULEDay Date Opponent TimeNOVEMBERSAT 6 GEORGETOWN 5:00 PMFri 13 Denison (Annapolis, MD) 4:00 pmSat 14 Stanford (Annapolis, MD) 11:00 amSat 14 Vanderbilt (Annapolis, MD) 9:00 amSun 15 Hobart (Annapolis, MD) 11:30 amSat 20 Lehigh (Philadelphia, PA) 5:00 pmSat 20 Drexel (Philadelphia, PA) 7:00 pmSat 21 Dartmouth (Annapolis, MD) 4:00 pmDECEMBERSun 6 at Franklin & Marshall 2:00 pmJANUARYFri 15 M.I.T. (at New Haven, CT) 8:00 pmSat 16 Middlebury (at New Haven, CT) 3:30 pmSat 16 Bates (at New Haven, CT) 6:00 pmSun 17 Colby (at New Haven, CT) 11:30 amWed 20 at Navy 5:00 pmSAT 30 VIRGINIA 2:00 PMSAT 30 NORTH CAROLINA 5:00 PMFEBRUARYSat 6 at Brown 6:00 pmSat 6 Yale (Providence, RI) TBASAT 13 HAVERFORD 2:00 PMSun 14 at Williams (Princeton, NJ 2:00 pmFri 19 College Nationals (at New Haven, CT) TBASat 20 College Nationals (at New Haven, CT) TBASun 21 College Nationals (at New Haven, CT) TBAMARCHFri 5 Men’s Individuals (at New Haven, CT) TBASat 6 Men’s Individuals (at New Haven, CT) TBASun 7 Men’s Individuals (at New Haven, CT) TBAHome matches (BOLD CAPS) at Lerner Health & Wellness Center, 23rd and G St., NW

2009-10 WOMEN’S SCHEDULEDay Date Opponent TimeNOVEMBERMon 15 vs. Virginia 1:00 pmDECEMBERSun 6 at Franklin & Marshall 1:00 pmJANUARYFri-Sun 15-17 Yale Round Robin (at New Haven, CT)Fri 15 Mount Holyoke 1:00 pmSat 16 Middlebury 3:45 pmSat 16 Bates 6:15 pmSun 17 Colby 11:30 amFEBRUARYSat 6 at Brown 3:00 pmSat 6 Yale (Providence, RI) TBASAT 13 HAVERFORD 1:00 PMSun 14 at Princeton 11:00 amSun 14 Williams (Princeton, NJ) TBASAT 20 GEORGETOWN 11:00 AMSAT 20 VIRGINIA 3:00 PMThurs 25 Howe Cup All DayFri 26 Howe Cup 2:00 pmSat 27 Howe Cup 2:00 pmSun 28 Howe Cup 2:00 pmMARCHThurs 4 Individual Nationals TBAFri 5 Individual Nationals TBASat 6 Individual Nationals TBASun 7 Individual Nationals TBAHome matches (BOLD CAPS) at Lerner Health & Wellness Center,23rd and G St., NW

2009-10 WOMEN’S SEASON OUTLOOKThe George Washington women’s squash team is looking to build on

last season’s momentum, after finishing with a top-15 national ranking.Head coach Maura Myers is entering her sixth season and has contin-ued to establish her program as one that’s on the rise in college squash.

The Colonials lost only one member of its top nine and hopes thatthe continuity will lead to big results in 2010, its eighth year as a varsityprogram. The Colonials have four returning sophomores in the top nineincluding Lauren Mathieu, Caroline Shumway, Tiffany Hingley, andPaige Beaton. Senior Kate Bullard will take over the top spot for theColonials, replacing Rachael Rayfield, who held the spot during her fourseasons on Foggy Bottom.

Myers anticipates anticipates senior Chelsea Mouta, freshmanDonna Farizan, and senior Mallory Ward to round out the top nine. TheColonials will also return juniors Eliza Ehrlich and T.T. Pasanen.

The Colonials will face off against a host of ranked opponents thisseason, including Haverford, at the Health and Wellness Center on Feb-ruary 13. With a strong core of returners, the Colonials should improveon the No. 15 ranking earned last season and look for a strong finish atthe Howe Cup Team Championships, held Feb. 25-28 in New Haven, CT.

WENDY LAWRENCE / MEN’S HEAD COACH Wendy Lawrence is in her third season as head squash coach at GW.

Lawrence joins the Colonials after 25 years of coaching many of thenations top nationally ranked juniors including four-time U.S. NationalMen’s Champion, Marty Clark.

She served as the Varsity Head Boys andGirls Coach at The Potomac School in McLean,VA, and led the teams to three Mid-Atlantictitles and a national ranking of No. 21. Addi-tionally, Lawrence started Results Gym inWashington, DC in 2001 and served as theDirector of Squash.

Lawrence began her squash career at Vas-sar College where she earned her bachelor’sdegree in Political Science and played on boththe varsity squash and tennis teams. Sheserved as the Head Squash Coach at theUptown Racquet Club in New York City while pursuing her professionalsquash tournament career. She moved to Washington, DC in 1981 whereshe was both General Manager and Head Squash Pro at WashingtonSports Club. In 1984 she was nationally ranked No. 12 and was also No. 1 in the Washington, DC area for three years.

U.S. Squash awarded Lawrence the Wedgewood Trophy for her con-tributions to squash in the United States and the Feron Cup, the USSquash national award for sportsmanship. In 2006, she received theprestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for the National Capitol SquashRacquets Association. In 2005, she founded the DC Squash Academy, anon-profit organization that trains under-served elementary school chil-dren from DC public schools in squash and provides them with academ-ic support and mentoring.

Lawrence is married to Mark Powden and has two teenage sons.

MAURA MYERS / WOMEN’S HEAD COACH Maura Myers is in her sixth season as head coach of the women’s

squash team. Under the guidance of Myers, the GW squash program quick-ly established itself as an elite program. Myers was named the recipient ofthe Chaffee Award in 2008 and led her team to a final team ranking of 15thin 2009 and competed for the Walker Cup (CDivision). The Chaffee Award is given to thecoach whose team has demonstrated the quali-ties of competitiveness and court demeanor thatcharacterized Clarence C. Chaffee.

In Myers’ debut year, the team set arecord for the most wins in a season and it hasfinished the past four seasons ranked in thetop 30 nationally. This includes finishing No.22 in 2008 and No. 15 in 2009, the highestposition in its brief history.

Myers is a 2004 graduate of Colby College(Waterville, ME) where she played squash for four years and served asteam captain her senior season. Myers, a native of McLean, VA, and current resident of Washington, DC, was also a member of the fieldhockey team and the women’s rugby club team at Colby.

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2008-09 MEN’S RESULTSDay Date Opponent ResultOCTOBERFri 24 Georgetown W, 9-0NOVEMBERSat 8 vs. Virginia ^ W, 9-0

vs. Bard College ^ W, 9-0Sun 9 vs. Washington ^ W, 9-0

vs. Vanderbilt ^ W, 9-0Sat 15 Fordham W, 9-0 Sun 16 Denison L, 6-3

Northwestern W, 7-2Sat 22 Franklin & Marshall L, 9-0DECEMBERFri 5 vs. Wesleyan # W, 6-3Sat 6 vs. Vassar # W, 9-0Sun 7 vs. Northeastern # L, 7-2JANUARYWed 14 Navy L, 9-0Fri 16 vs. Connecticut College $ W, 7-2Sat 17 vs. at Middlebury $ L, 8-1

vs. USC (Trinity, CT) $ W, 8-1Sun 18 vs. Northeastern $ W, 6-3Sat 24 at Haverford W, 9-0Sat 31 Drexel W, 9-0

North Carolina W, 9-0FEBRUARYFri 6 at Bates College L, 9-0Sat 7 vs. MIT (Lewiston, ME) W, 9-0

vs. Tufts (Brunswick, ME) L, 6-3Sun 8 vs. Colby (Waterville, ME) L, 8-1Fri 20 vs. Northeastern ! W, 7-2Fri 20 vs. Bowdoin ! L, 7-2Sat 21 vs. Hamilton ! L, 7-2 ^ Navy Squash Invitational (Annapolis, MD)# Wesleyan Tournament (Middletown, CT)$ Yale Tournament (Trinity, CT)! CSA Team Championships hosted by Harvard (Princeton, NJ)

2008-09 WOMEN’S RESULTSDay Date Opponent ResultNOVEMBERFri 14 Georgetown W, 7-2Sat 22 Franklin & Marshall W, 9-0DECEMBERFri 5 vs. Middlebury $ W, 7-2Sat 6 vs. Wesleyan $ W, 9-0

vs. Columbia $ W, 7-2vs. Vassar $ W, 7-2

Sun 7 vs. William Smith $ W, 9-0vs. Georgetown $ W, 9-0

JANUARYFri 16 vs. Connecticut College W, 8-1Sat 17 vs. Middlebury L, 9-0

vs. Amherst W, 5-4Sun 18 at Northeastern W, 9-0Sat 24 at Haverford W, 8-1FEBRUARYFri 6 vs. Bates L, 8-1Sat 7 vs. Tufts W, 9-0

at Bowdoin L, 6-3Sun 8 at Colby W, 7-2Thurs 12 vs. Brown* L, 9-0Fri 13 vs. Middlebury* L, 8-1Sun 15 vs. Hamilton* W, 6-3$ Wesleyan Round Robin (Middletown, CT)* Howe Cup (New Haven, CT)