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Men's Squash Welcomes Two Into Class Of 2013, Including Top-Ranked American Player
August 05, 2009 | Men's Squash
Men's squash coach Bob Callahan, coming off an unprecedented fourth-straight Ivy League championship season for the proud Princeton program, welcomes two talented Americans into the Class of 2013. That duo includes Todd Harrity, the top-ranked American U-19 player since the 2006-07 season.
Harrity and Steve Harrington will both join the men's squash program as it looks to build on its greatest era ever. Besides winning four straight titles, Princeton has won seven titles this decade and made five national team finals since 2002, including each of the last four. Princeton did lose its "Amigos" from the Class of 2009, as Mauricio Sanchez, Kimlee Wong and Hesham El Halaby each graduated as four-year starters during the current run of Ivy League champions.
Harrity is expected to fill one of the top spots in the lineup from day one. A graduate of the Episcopal Academy, the same high school that once graduated Callahan, Harrity has been the top-ranked boy's U19 player for more than three years and recently competed in the 2009 World Junior Squash Championships in Chennai, India, where he lost a five-game heartbreaker to the sixth-seeded Farhan Zaman of Pakistan 11-8, 11-8, 8-11, 10-12, 12-10. Harrity had also reached the third round of the 2008 World Junior Squash Championships.
In the past year, Harrity has won both the U.S. Junior Open Championship and the U.S. Junior Championship. Throughout both competitions, he won 30 of a total 31 games. His victory in the U.S. Junior Championships in March was his third straight title in that event. One month earlier, he led the Episcopal Academy team to the Division 1 crown at the U.S. High School Team Squash Championships. During the 2007-08 season, Harrity was ranked No. 1; the next three spots belonged to Chris Callis (the eventual 2009 Ivy League Rookie of the Year), Alex Domenick (who played No. 3 for the fourth-ranked Cornell Big Red last season) and Thomas Mattsson (who played No. 1 for Penn during the CSA team championships last season).
Harrington, a graduate of William Penn Charter in Philadelphia, has been ranked in the Top 15 in the boy's U19 rankings in each of the last two years. He was ranked No. 11 last year and is currently No. 14; in the U17 rankings, Harrington reached as high as No. 3 in the 2006-07 season; at the time he trailed only Mattsson and Christopher Hanson, who reached the 2009 U.S. Junior Squash Championships final before losing to Harrity. Harrington advanced to the round of 16 at the U.S. Junior Championship, and then advanced to the consolation semifinal.