Princeton University Athletics
Women's Squash Intercollegiate Individual Championship Tournament Renamed Gail Ramsay Cup
November 04, 2002 | Women's Squash
Nov. 4, 2002
The College Squash Association has announced that the individual intercollegiate women's championship event will now be known as the Gail Ramsay Cup.
Ramsay, the head women's squash coach at Princeton, is the only four-time intercollegiate champion, either male or female. Ramsay won the title every year from 1977-80 as an undergraduate at Penn State.
"It's a great honor," says Ramsay. "I'm very proud of my accomplishments as an intercollegiate squash player. They mean a lot to me. To have the tournament named for me is very humbling."
The Gail Ramsay Cup will consist of a draw of the top 32 players in intercollegiate women's squash. Ramsay is one of two people ever to win an intercollegiate championship and coach a team to the team national championship (which she has done twice), and she has also coached the individual national champion four times. The College Squash Association has also renamed several other championships. The Demer Holleran Cup will be the B draw at the intercollegiate championships, for players ranked 33rd to 64th. Holleran, a three-time individual national champion at Princeton before graduating in 1989, is widely considered the greatest women's squash player of all time.
The top eight teams in the country will continue to compete for the Howe Cup, which goes to the national women's collegiate championship team. The Howe Cup is named for the Howe sisters, Betty and Margaret. Betty was the longtime Princeton women's squash coach and the wife of Pepper Constable, a former Princeton football captain and member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
The B, C, and D division of the team championship tournament will now be called the Aggie Kurtz Cup, the Dale Walker Cup and the Patty Epps Cup, honoring former longtime and distinguished women's head coaches at Dartmouth, Yale and Franklin & Marshall.