After a thrilling season for the Fordham squash team, they wrapped up their 2023-24 campaign at the CSA Championships in Philadelphia this past weekend.
A select number of the team ventured to participate in singles and doubles matches. Those people included sophomores Nicholas Gilman and Jack Stanley, juniors Bennett Van Liew and Sofia Arseniev and senior Henry Frawley. This is the same group of members that attended back in 2022-23.
Kicking things off in the singles matches, Gilman was the only Fordham representative. His first opponent, Yash Fadte of the University of Rochester, defeated him in four games with final scores of 11-13, 11-6, 11-2, 11-8.
Gilman then suffered another defeat, this time at the hands of Spencer Yager of Cornell University, who beat Gilman 11-5, 11-8, 12-10.
Then two different squads competed in the doubles competition: number-one-seeded Van Liew and Stanley and number-10-seeded Frawley and Arseniev.
Van Liew and Stanley dropped their opening matchup to St. Lawrence University’s Alexander Scott and Trey Denman in three games, 11-8, 11-6, 9-11.
However, the mixed-doubles team of Frawley and Arseniev had a longer run in the tournament. In their first match, they defeated Nate Meyer and Mina Bahadori from Brown University’s club squash team, 11-6, 11-7, 11-7.
For context, the Rams suffered a 0-9 defeat in the regular season against Brown’s club team back in January, showing how far they have come throughout this season.
In their second match, Frawley and Arseniev faced the fifth-seeded Youssef Ezzo and Caroline Chin from Tufts University, being bested in three games, 7-11, 11-4, 11-7.
The pair bounced back in the third match of the tournament, defeating the 12 seed Alejandro Cruz and V. Della-Maddalena of Chatham College in three games, 8-11, 11-9, 11-3.
The duo dropped their fourth and final match against a different pair from Brown’s club team, Blake Roshkoff and Rachel Mashek. Rockshoff beat Van Liew at the one seed earlier this year, while Mashek beat sophomore Gray Kearns at the six seed in singles play. The match went on for three games, ending their run 11-4, 11-8, 11-4.
This season has been a significant improvement upon last year, with the squad winning more and more games, as well as ending on a high note.
