Squash News Cover is a Trip Down Memory Lane

From Squash Magazine

By James Zug
Twenty-five years ago, the cover of Squash News, our predecessor magazine, featured fifty-three young athletes. That February 1996 issue was historic. It not only contained what is thought to be the most players ever collectively pictured on the cover of a squash magazine—in a masterful photograph by Viktor Von Dracek—but an insightful six-page article inside written by Dave Rosen.
Those players were competing in a special tournament, the 1995 Black Knight/Squash News USSRA Hunter Lott Junior Olympic Squash Championships. The event, held at Penn, was in its third year. It is now called the U.S. Junior Open, the world’s largest individual international junior event. The 2021 event will take place at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center, …
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