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Women's Squash Resumes Season With Top-4 Showdown Weekend
January 28, 2016 | Women's Squash
After a three-week break for Finals, the Princeton women's squash will dive right back into the season with a challenging weekend that will have major implications on both the Ivy League season and the Howe Cup seedings.
Princeton (5-1, 1-1 Ivy) is currently ranked third in the CSA national team standings, and it will hit the road this weekend to play the teams directly above and below them in those same standings.
The first stop will be in Philadelphia, where the second-ranked Quakers (7-1, 1-1 Ivy) will be looking to extend their home win streak over Princeton to five matches. Penn is coming off a hard-fought 5-4 win at Trinity, and its lone loss of the season came by a 6-3 score at top-ranked Harvard.
These two teams split a pair of matches last season. Penn won a 6-3 match during the regular season in Jadwin, but Princeton came back with a 5-4 win in the third-place match at the Howe Cup Championships. Senior Rachel Leizman had one of the biggest wins that day, taking a five-game match at the No. 5 spot to help clinch the win.
The next day, Princeton will head to New Haven, Conn., to take on fourth-ranked Stanford. The Cardinal became the early story of the season when it upset Trinity to move into the national Top 5. The Tigers posted a convincing 9-0 win over Stanford last season.
Princeton is ready to shake off any lingering feelings from its last outing, a 9-0 loss at Harvard. Prior to that match, the Tigers had won every individual match in its first five competitions, including the Ivy opener against Dartmouth. The 1-2 punch at the top of the lineup — sophomore Olivia Fiechter and junior Maria Elena Ubina — remains one of the nation's best, and they will certainly be tested Saturday against the likely Penn duo of Reeham Sedky and Anaka Alankamony.