Ivy League (W)
The Ivy League is made up of Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. All eight institutions have squash teams, but because Columbia has had a club program, it has not been included in the Ivy League standings. Columbia plans to grant its team varsity status in 2011.
By the time Yale won the first Ivy League title in 1983, many of the Ivies already had active women’s squash programs. Initially, many female players found access to be an issue: in the 1960s, Penn only allowed women to play at 9 am, and students from Radcliffe encountered similar restrictions on courts at Harvard. When Aggie Kurtz started a women’s team at Dartmouth in 1972, she made sure a new entrance to the courts was built so that her players didn’t have to walk through the men’s locker room to enter them. But despite these initial challenges, women’s squash flourished in the Ivy League. Under legendary coach Betty Constable (who while living in Princeton during the 1950s had had to sneak into Dillon Gym to practice with the men’s team), the Tigers captured the first national team title in 1973. Until Trinity won the Howe Cup in 2002, no team outside the Ivy League won the national team championships. Many individual champions and All-Americans have come from Ivy League teams, which continue to be a major force in women’s college squash.
Lists of All-Ivy League teams can be found on the Women’s All-Ivy archive page.
IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONS:
- 1983: Yale University
- 1984: Harvard University
- 1985: Harvard University
- 1986: Yale University
- 1987: Harvard University
- 1988: Harvard University
- 1989: Princeton University
- 1990: Harvard University
- 1991: Princeton University
- 1992: Harvard University
- 1993: Harvard University
- 1994: Harvard University
- 1995: Harvard University
- 1996: Harvard University
- 1997: Harvard University
- 1998: Princeton University
- 1999: Harvard University
- 2000: University of Pennsylvania
- 2001: Harvard University
- 2002: Harvard University
- 2003: Harvard University
- 2004: Yale University
- 2005: Yale University
- 2006: Harvard University
- 2007: Princeton University
- 2008: University of Pennsylvania
- 2009: Princeton University
PLAYER OF THE YEAR (SCHOOL):
- 1992: Jordanna Fraiberg (Harvard University)
- 1993: Vanya Desai (Harvard University)
- 1994: Jordanna Fraiberg (Harvard University)
- 1995: Libby Eynon (Harvard University)
- 1996: Katherine Johnson (Princeton University) & Ivy Pochoda (Harvard University)
- 1997: Katherine Johnson (Princeton University)
- 1998: Julia Beaver (Princeton University)
- 1999: Julia Beaver (Princeton University)
- 2000: Julia Beaver (Princeton University)
- 2001: Julia Beaver (Princeton University)
- 2002: Louisa Hall (Harvard University)
- 2003: Runa Reta (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2004: Michelle Quibell (Yale University)
- 2005: Michelle Quibell (Yale University)
- 2006: Lily Lorentzen (Harvard University)
- 2007: Kyla Grigg (Harvard University)
- 2008: Miranda Ranieri (Yale University)
- 2009: Kristen Lange (University of Pennsylvania)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR (SCHOOL):
- 1992: Libby Eynon (Harvard University)
- 1993: Erin Dockery (Harvard University)
- 1994: Katherine Johnson (Princeton University)
- 1995: Ivy Pochoda (Harvard University) & Missy Wyant (Princeton University)
- 1996: Jessica DiMauro (University of Pennsylvania)
- 1997: Katie Patrick (University of Pennsylvania)
- 1998: Julia Beaver (Princeton University)
- 1999: Margaret Elias (Harvard University) & Olga Puidgemont-Sola, (Cornell University)
- 2000: Runa Reta (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2001: Louisa Hall (Harvard University)
- 2002: Lindsey Wilkins (Harvard University)
- 2003: Michelle Quibell (Yale University)
- 2004: Catherine McLeod (Yale University)
- 2005: Kyla Grigg (Harvard University)
- 2006: Lily Lorentzen (Harvard University)
- 2007: Kristen Lange (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2008: June Tiong (Harvard University)
- 2009: Nirasha Guruge (Harvard University)
