On Feb. 11, the squash team’s season ended, with several individual game wins having gone to its players but no victories in overall matches for the team.
“I will say that if you’re looking at the stats of the season, they are not great,” senior Adam Tang said.
Adam believes that one of the main reasons for the team’s struggle, if not the main one, was that seven 2023 seniors graduated, leaving veteran players few and far between.
“There are only three seniors this year and no juniors, so the people on the team with practice and experience in squash are very limited,” Adam said, “so, we unfortunately had a bad showing in matches and tournaments.”
Sophomore Sahana Agarwal, who won an individual match against Latin, said the season’s most memorable moment for her was cheering on the younger players in the first match. She enjoyed bonding with all her teammates even in the face of defeat.
“I really enjoyed our first match, even though a lot of people couldn’t make it,” Sahana said. “It was fun starting up the season and it was the freshmen’s first high school match, so it was nice to cheer them on and encourage them. We didn’t win, but it was nice bonding over, like, who we thought played well and which players were mean. So I’d say overall it was memorable because it was a good start to the season.”
Sophomore Asher Dennis believes that many of the new players on the team demonstrate large potential and are driven to enhance their skills and continue to grow.
“We got to meet a lot of new people, which was nice,” Asher said. “A lot of new people to get interested in the team — mainly freshmen. I think other than that, there are like five of us who aren’t. It was a good environment for them, too, and I think if everyone put effort into it, we could get back to how we were last year.”
Like Asher, Adam believes the team is in a good position going forward, mostly due to younger teammates who show promise and are motivated to learn and improve.
