2023 Intercollegiate Individual Championships Begin Today: Aly Hussein and Sivasangari Subramaniam Are The Top Seeds by Rob Dinerman Dateline March 3, 2023
--- University of Virginia star Aly Hussein and defending champion
Sivasangari Subramaniam are the No. 1 men’s and women’s seeds
respectively for this year’s College Individual Championships which
will be held today through Sunday at the Arlen Specter Center in
downtown Philadelphia. The Nos. 2 through 4 seeds competing for the
Pool Trophy are Harvard’s Marwan Tarek, the 2020 champion who this past
weekend won the deciding match Harvard’s 5-4 final-round victory over
Trinity College in the national men’s team championship, Matias Knudsen
of Drexel and Trinity No. 1 Mohamed Sharaf. The women’s Nos. 2 through
4 seeds vying for the Ramsay Cup --- named in honor of Gail Ramsay, the
current Princeton women’s team head coach, who won this tournament in
all four of her college years from 1977-80 --- are Marina Stefanoni,
who, like Tarek, won the clinching match in Harvard’s 5-4 final-round
win over Trinity College in the national women’s team championship,
Columbia’s Chan Sin Yuk and Meagan Best of the University of Virginia.
The men’s and women’s draws will both have the round-of-16 and
quarterfinal matches played on Friday, followed by the semis on
Saturday afternoon and the finals midday on Sunday. All eight
quarterfinalists will all be named to the 10-person first-team
All-American list, as will the two finalists in the Consolation draw.
There are four secondary-level men’s and women’s tournaments as well
which will determine selections for second-team All-American, as well
as the ranking positions behind them.
In a sign of how much depth currently
exists among the college squash teams of both genders, representatives
of 10 different colleges comprise the 16-player Ramsay Cup draw, while
nine colleges have placed players in the Pool Trophy event.
Subramaniam, who as a freshman was runner-up to current PSA top-15 pro
Gina Kennedy in the 2019 tournament, won the 2022 edition with an
exciting five-game final-round win over Hana Moataz that made her the
first player from Cornell, to win this championship. She then was
seriously injured in a car crash in Kuala Lampur this past summer,
fracturing a bone in her neck that required surgery and sidelined her
for months, but recovered fully enough to return to competition by the
beginning of Calendar 2023.
