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On Saturday, November 11, the Boston University Squash Team Team traveled to Annapolis Maryland to compete at the United States Naval Academy at the annual Veteran’s Weekend Round Robin.

The women began the weekend with a 5-4 victory against Johns Hopkins University. Number four seed Jackie Loring won the deciding match for the team, refusing to let up in a grueling 5 game competition (12-10, 7-11, 10-12, 11-9, 11-3) against her opponent. In the afternoon the women competed against Haverford College and Georgetown Universityrespectively. Both schools provided a tough challenge for the women who ultimately lost both matches (9-0). However, the team never faltered in their spirit or sportsmanship and look forward to the possibility of taking on both teams again at Nationals.

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Last Tuesday, October 24th, the BU men faced off against their Comm- Ave Rival, Boston College. Having lost to BC last year, the men were ready to put up a good fight. With some truly fantastic matches, BU won.

Number 5, Julian Lee '20, came back from a tough first two games, losing 10-12 in the first and 9-11 in the second. He then came back to week 11-7, 12-10, 11-5 in the next three matches wining 3-2 against BC. Number 1, Hunter Chun '21, also had an incredible comeback against BC's Ryan Ashmore. In the first game, Hunter lost 15-17. He then came back in his next three games winning 11-4, 11-7, 11-9, winning 3-1. Senior and number 4, Joel Lavoie, had a fantastic win against BC's Tyler O'Neill, winning 3-0.

On Sunday, October 23rd, the Men faced both Babson College and Bryant University.

The men won their first match against Bryant 7-2. Seats 2, Marwan Sallam, 3, Parker Tonissi, 4, Joel Lavoie, 5, Julian Lee, 6, Matthew Wallace, and 7, Cameron Bonhurst won their matches 3-0. Seat 4, Joel Lavoie '18, had a tough first game 12-10 but came back in his second two games winning 11-1 and 11-2. Chad Lavoie made his collegiate appearance as seat number 10. Shrey Shah played to 5 games, ultimately winning.

Congrats to the Men on a successful first match of the season against Brandeis yesterday, October 16th. The Men won 9-0, a great way to start the season. Hunter Chun '21 competed in his first collegiate match as #1 and won 3-0 against Muhammad Furqan Shai. Senior Joel Lavoie also won 3-0 against Charles Blumberg. All BU Men played extremely well. Next week they will be playing Bryant at 12pm and Babson at 6pm both at home!

The Boston University Club Squash Men's team will be going to Fordham this weekend to compete in a round robin! If you're in the neighborhood, please stop by.

The team will be playing Lehigh at 10:30am, Colgate 1:30pm, and Fordham at 3:45pm on Saturday .

On Sunday, October 30th, the Squash team had the pleasure of volunteering at the Travis Roy Foundation 5k in Newton, MA. Laura Ferreira-Cesar ('18) has been an active volunteer in this organization since her freshman year at Boston University. Travis has many connections to our team having attended Tabor Academy, the alma matter of both Laura and Captain Joel Lavoie and is a Boston University Terrier. His foundation is "dedicated to enhancing the life of individuals with spinal cord injuries and their families by providing adaptive equipment and to finding a cure through increased funding of research, resulting in self-reliance and the ability to be as independent as possible."

During the 5k, the team participated in helping in the kids race, where several of our players ran along the kids, handed out water, tracking times, registering runners and placed around the corse to direct runners. All participants were extremely spirited dressed in their halloween entire. The team had a great time volunteering and meeting Travis, whose story has truly inspired each of us. The team enjoyed being a part of such a great cause and hope to work with this foundation in the future!

The squash team would like to give a BIG thank you to everyone who supported us yesterday during ‪#‎BUGivingDay‬ . The team did phenomenally, well raising $1,367!! Again, a million thanks to all of our friends and family, we really could not be what we are without your support

 

The BU Squash Team was very excited to find such an engaging community service opportunity. Challah for Hunger, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to promoting hunger relief and encouraging awareness across America for the purpose of Jewish mitzvahs, was such a great experience for everyone on the team. Each team member was able to create their own challahs. The team even purchased some once they were baked! We thank Challah for Hunger for hosting us.

As this season comes to a close, the BU Squash team wants to thank our seniors for all of the hard work they have put in this year and throughout their college careers.

Alex, Anna, Chandler, Lily, Allan, Ankit, Paulo and Nick:

Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to the team. We have come such a long way over the course of this past season and continue to grow and succeed. Your commitment to this team is inspiring and you are all such role models. Thank you for all you have done. We can't wait to see what comes next for all of you. Best of luck with all your future endeavors!