CONTRIBUTORS  ↓

Brett Erasmus
  Brett started playing squash in high school in South Africa and has been consistently involved in the game since then.  He has played on many teams in various countries around the world.  After moving to New York City in 2003 to pursue a career in finance, he began playing squash in the West Village where he lives. Subsequent to the closure of his old club, he now frequents the courts at the University Club and Cityview in Queens. Brett previously served on the Board of the MSRA/New York Squash during which time he reinstituted an interclub doubles league in the New York metro area.  He still regularly volunteers for various squash programs and enjoys giving back to the sport that has brought him so much fulfillment over the years.   He writes about squash and other sports in his blog, www.brettssquashblog.com

 Bryan Patterson
  Bryan is the Head Coach at Fordham University in New York and the squash director of CitySquash. He competed on the professional tour in the 1970’s and was ranked #2 in England and #16 in the world. He was a founding member of the ISPA, which is now the PSA, and he has been a director of the US Junior National teams. Bryan is a native of Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England and a 1967 graduate of  St. John’s College in Yorkshire.

 John Musto
  John Musto is a squash coach and former professional player who was the 2010 #1 ranked US 40+ player and is a Level 2 US certified teaching professional.  John played #1 for the Pan Am Fed Championships silver medal-winning US National team in 1996 and was the 4-year #1 player for the 2-time National champion Yale team as well as the #1 ranked US junior player.  John is currently the Director of Squash at the CityView Racquet Club in New York City and the Director of the Rome Squash Camp in Italy (www.romesquashcamp.com).  John writes a column on playing better squash.

Julian Illingworth
  Julian Illingworth, 27, is the reigning seven-time U. S. National Champion and has been ranked as high as No. 28 on the PSA world pro singles tour, the only American to have ever earned a top-30 PSA ranking. A native of Portland, Oregon, he was a four-time first-team all-American at Yale, and he led the Elis to a co-Ivy League championship in his senior year, which culminated in his successful defense on his "home" Payne Whitney Gymnasium courts of the U. S. National Championship he had won for the first time as a junior the year before. Recently married, Illingworth currently resides in Manhattan and plays out of the New York Athletic Club.
His website is:  www.JulianIllingworth.com

 Bob Hanscom
  Bob Hanscom is best-known for staging many unique professional squash events in Los Angeles during his 21-year tenure in southern California as the pro at the University Club of LA and later the Los Angeles Athletic Club. He retired in 2008. Over the years Bob was USSRA ranked #1 in his age group eight different times, beginning with the inaugural National Softball Championships in 1984, as well as being a U.S. Squash nationally certified referee, assessor and instructor.












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