{"id":2410,"date":"2019-12-11T22:32:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2019-12-11T22:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:32:15","slug":"boys-squash-update-2019-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2019\/12\/11\/boys-squash-update-2019-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys&#8217; Squash Update 2019-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>By\u00a0Brian\u00a0Li\u00a0(IV)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking to build off last year\u2019s success, the boys\u2019 varsity squash team is ready for another busy and focused season. The team, led by Chris Zachary \u201819 and Jeffrey Xiao \u201819,&nbsp; finished with a record of 15-2 and capped off a dominant season as Division II National Champions.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coaching staff has seen a major overhaul from last season with the departure of Mrs. Tina Rix-Stout and the addition of two new coaches, Mr. Francis Odeh, Assistant Director of Squash, and Mr. Chad Smith, Director of Squash. Mr. Odeh will bring more than 30 years of squash expertise, including a #1 national ranking, and will mainly run the girls\u2019 varsity team. With past coaching experience at The Lawrenceville School and a successful junior career, Mr. Smith will oversee and direct the auxiliary squash program and \u201cbuild the brand,\u201d according to Coach Ramsay Vehslage. Coach Vehslage will remain as the Head Coach of the boys\u2019 varsity team while Coach Olivia Tandon continues her role as the primary JV squash coach.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked about the goals for this season, Coach Vehslage stated, \u201cGet seeded in Division I \u2026 In order to get there, we need to focus on winning five-game matches and in order to do that, we need to focus on fitness.\u201d Mr. Vehslage also remarked that, \u201cWe have a lot of guys who are very passionate about the sport and are willing to put in the work individually so that they can contribute to the success of the whole team.\u201d With captains Collin Wen (VI), Alex Chiang (VI), Waleed Nisar (VI), and Charlie Malone (VI), the boys\u2019 varsity squash season is bound to have a triumphant season. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Brian\u00a0Li\u00a0(IV) Looking to build off last year\u2019s success, the boys\u2019 varsity squash team is ready for another busy and focused season. The team, led by Chris Zachary \u201819 and Jeffrey Xiao \u201819,&nbsp; finished with a record of 15-2 and capped off a dominant season as Division II National Champions.&nbsp; The coaching staff has seen a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[146,74],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-sports","tag-squash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}