{"id":1124,"date":"2018-03-25T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2018-07-25T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:27:21","slug":"girls-squash-post-season-update-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2018\/03\/25\/girls-squash-post-season-update-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls&#8217; Squash Post-Season Update 2017\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Grace Wang (III)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Girls\u2019 squash has enjoyed a successful season this year. Players Renee Chan (IV), Rachel Chen (VI), Mahek Hemani (III), and Alisa Chokshi (V) led the team to a final placement of eleventh at High School Squash Nationals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each player on the team had great records. Some outstanding records were held by Chen, who finished the season at 4-2, Hemani, who finished at 5-1, and Lauren Drzala (III), who finished at 2-2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team played multiple matches over the course of their season, winning against schools Blair Academy 5-2 and 7-0, Poly Prep 5-2 and 7-0, SCHA 5-2, and Penn Charter 4-3, and losing to Lawrenceville 1-6, Greenwich Academy 0-7, and Choate Rosemary Hall 3-4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team traveled to Philadelphia for the High School Team National Championships seeded 16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the bottom of Division 1. However, with great effort and skill, they were able to walk away with the eleventh-place title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Individuals Chen and Chan competed in the NJ High School Squash Championship on January 7, with Chan walking away with the win. Both Chen and Chan competed at US Squash Junior Nationals last year with teammate Alisa Chokshi; their success further demonstrates the aptitude of the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Girls\u2019 squash not only had successful individuals but also \u201ca lot of team bonding,\u201d according to newcomer Eva Schiller (III). \u201cThe team is really close-knit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While captains Chen and Namita Davey (VI) will be leaving this year, the team is sure to continue to produce exceptional performances in the years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Grace Wang (III) Girls\u2019 squash has enjoyed a successful season this year. Players Renee Chan (IV), Rachel Chen (VI), Mahek Hemani (III), and Alisa Chokshi (V) led the team to a final placement of eleventh at High School Squash Nationals. Each player on the team had great records. Some outstanding records were held by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[51,74],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-squash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}