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CSA Singles Tournament
Women's Squash Ends Season With Solid Performances At Nationals
March 05, 2005 | Women's Squash
March 6, 2005
HANOVER, N.H. - Both Claire Rein-Weston and Carly Grabowski had strong runs in the 2005 national individual championships, held last weekend at Dartmouth. Rein-Weston, the No. 1 player for the Tigers, won four matches over the weekend and showed she would be a force for the next two years.
Rein-Weston was one of five Tigers to compete in the 'A' Division, named the Gail Ramsay Cup after the current Princeton coach who is the only women's player to win four straight national titles. Rein-Weston won her first round match, although teammates Marilla Hiltz, Geneviewe Lessard, Lena Neufeld and Margaret Kent all fell in their first matches. Rein-Weston defeated Williams' Clare Whipple 9-4, 9-2, 9-5 to face Brown's Lillian Rosenthal in the second round. Rosenthal, the tournament's eighth seed, rallied from two games down to defeat Rein-Weston and knock her into the second-round consolations.
Rein-Weston advanced to the second-round consolation final by defeating Harvard's Audrey Duboc and Trinity's Lauren Polonich, both in five games. She would eventually have to retire due to injury in the final against Yale's Miranda Ranieri.
All four Princeton players who went to the first-round consolation draw won their first matches, but it was Lessard who won three matches before finally falling to Yale's Frances Ho 3-0 in the final.
In the Holleran Cup, which is the 'B' draw, top-seeded Carly Grabowski won three matches before falling to Yale's Kate Rapisarda in the semifinal. Teammate Anina Nolan won two matches before falling to Amherst's Ashley Harmeling in four games.
Of the seven people who competed for Princeton at the national individual championships, none were either a junior or a senior.