Individuals (W)

| Print | Updated March 25, 2010

A women’s national intercollegiate individual tournament has been held since 1965, when Vassar’s Katherine Allabough defeated seven other players in a tournament at Wellesley.

Held at the end of the college squash season, the individual tournament features two divisions: an A division, in which the top 32 players in the nation compete for the Ramsay Cup; and a B division, where players ranked 33rd and higher compete for the Holleran Cup.

The Ramsay Cup, a silver bowl donated in 1974 by the United States Women’s Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association (a precursor to the Women’s College Squash Association), is named for Gail Ramsay. As a player at Penn State, Ramsay won four back-to-back individual titles from 1977 to 1980, the first collegiate player – female or male – to do so. Ramsay, who was a two-time member on the U.S. national team, went on to win two United States doubles titles and seven mixed-doubles titles, and was ranked as high as number 2 in U.S. women’s singles. Ramsay worked as the head squash and tennis coach at Williams College for six years before becoming the head women’s squash coach at Princeton in 199[3]. She has led the Tigers to multiple national titles and has coached individual champions as well. She was inducted into the College Squash Hall of Fame as a player in 1995.

The Holleran Cup, a silver bowl donated by the College Squash Association in 2003, is named for Demer Holleran. A four-time First Team All-American, Holleran won individual titles in 1986, 1987, and 1989, competed on Princeton’s 1989 national championship-winning team, and won the 1989 Betty Richey Award, a top honor for women’s college players. As a professional player, Holleran won six hardball U.S. singles titles, six softball individual titles, ten national doubles titles, eight national mixed doubles titles, three world doubles titles, and one world mixed-doubles title. In her nine years as the women’s squash coach at the University of Pennsylvania, Holleran led the Quakers to their first national title and an undefeated season in 2000. After retiring from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, Holleran founded the Fairmount Athletic Club in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. She was inducted into the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame in 2004 and the College Squash Hall of Fame in 2005.

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