This week marked the end of the regular season and the start of the postseason for both the men’s and women’s squash teams. Both squads travel to Trinity to face off against Middlebury and Tufts, respectively, in the quarterfinals of the NESCAC tournament this weekend.

No. 1 Torey Lee ’15 said she believes the women have played well this year and are confident going into the weekend because they recently shut out Tufts.

According to No. 4 Michaela Martin ’14, the women are currently ranked No. 17 nationally and are on the cusp of the B and C divisions of nationals. 
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“Our play this weekend at NESCACs will directly impact in which of these two divisions we will fall, which has definitely motivated us,” Martin  said. 

The men, on the other hand, won all five of their games in the past week: three 9-0 victories against Boston College, MIT, and Boston University, an 8-1 win over Tufts, and a breathtaking 5-4 triumph against higher-ranked Ivy League opponent Brown.
According to No. 2 Stephan Danyluk ’14, “We are just starting to find our rhythm. I think at the beginning of the year we were getting six or seven solid performances and now we are much more consistent with eight to nine strong showings every match.”

Brown was coming off of an impressive victory against Bates, ranked No. 14 nationally, and the win made quite a statement for the Polar Bears. 

“Coming out of the Brown match we have confidence that we can go far,” Danyluk said. “Our goal is to potentially make the national championships B division, which would require us to reach at least the semifinals of the NESCAC.”

The women’s squad is also coming off of an exciting weekend where they faced many highly ranked opponents. They recorded morale boosting 8-1 victories against Boston College and Wellesley, a 9-0 result against Tufts, and a hard-fought 0-9 loss against Brown University.
Lee said she takes a lot of positives out of the recent results. 

“We have played a bunch of Ivy League teams that are very highly ranked,” she said.  
 Both squads are in high spirit sas they prepare for their decisive weekend ahead and hope to enter the final stretch of their seasons with strength and grace.