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Princeton University Athletics
Bell, Schuster, Teoh to Join Women's Squash Program from the Class of 2026
August 16, 2022 | Women's Squash
Here's a look at the Princeton women's squash Class of 2026:
Charlotte Bell
Wellesley, Mass. • Noble and Greenough School
Before Princeton: Consistently reached top national rankings throughout junior U.S. Squash career, including No. 1 in U-13 and top five in U-17 and U-19 … received All-American honors for 2021-22 and 2019-20 seasons … seven top-eight finishes in Junior Championship Tour events in final two seasons, including two top-five finishes in U-19 in senior season and second place in U-17 at the 2019 West Coast JCT … played for the U.S. Junior National Team, including at the 2022 Pan Am Games where she won a team gold and mixed doubles silver ... also played for Team USA at the 2017 British Open and 2016 and 2018 Battle of the Border … Noble and Greenough Varsity Squash Team for four years, playing No. 1 for three years and captain senior year … three-time Independent School League honoree and two-time All New England … Noble and Greenough Culter Cup award winner senior year … four-time U.S. Squash Scholar-Athlete honoree … member of the Cum Laude Society … trained by Karim Shohayeb at TOG Squash in Belmont, Mass.
Personal: Daughter of Sue and Carl Bell … has one older sister Katherine and two older brothers Matt and Jack; Jack is a member of the squash team at Dartmouth in the Class of 2023 ... brother-in-law Matt Chesky played soccer at Yale, in the Class of 2012 … interested in economics, cognitive science, and computer science.
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Abigail Schuster
New Freedom, Pa. • McDonogh School (Md.)
Before Princeton: U.S. National ranking between No. 1 and No. 4 from 2014-22 ... won gold with Team USA at the 2022 Pan American Junior Games ... two-time All-American in 2020 and 2021 ... six-time member of the U.S. Junior National Team to the British Junior Open, finishing as high as 11th ... winner of four Junior Championship Tour (JCT) tournaments ... undefeated playing No. 1 as member of the US Junior National Team in the 2019 Battle of the Border ... U.S. Junior Nationals U15 Doubles Champion ... played No. 1 on the McDonogh School varsity squash teams and was elected captain junior and senior years, as well as earning school's Eagle Award ... recipient of the school's 2020 Thomas Award for Highest Scholastic Achievement for highest GPA ... winner of the school's 2022 Shawman Award for Most Likely to Contribute to Science ... recipient of the school's Award for Highest Achievement in Chemistry in 2020 and 2021 ... Dean' List all semesters and member of school's Cum Laude society ... National Chemistry Olympiad competitor ... intern at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, working with Artificial Intelligence during summers. Personal: Daughter of David and Patricia Schuster ... interested in studying engineering among other possibilities at Princeton ... has a sister Emily in the Class of 2024 on the Dartmouth squash team.
Liyen Teoh
Bayan Lepas, Malaysia • Heng Ee High School
Before Princeton: Highest U-17 national junior ranking was fourth ... earned the Co-curricular Excellence Award at Heng Ee High School, as one of the top four honorees in a class of 615 ... reached the semi-finals in her first Professional Squash Association(PSA) tournament in 2002, earning the PSNS President's Trophy ... placed fifth at the U-19 national championship in 2020, sixth at the U-17 national championship in 2019, and fourth at the U-17 national championship in 2018 ... took fourth at the PBA Penang Junior Squash Open at the U-17 level in 2019 and fourth in 2018 ... Heng Ee team took third at the National Interschool Competition in 2019 and won the State Interschool Competition title that year ... team won the title and Teoh placed second in doubles at the ASEAN School Games in 2018 ... took fourth in U-17 at the Oncocare Singapore Junior Open in 2018 ... placed fifth in U-17 at the Red Tone KL Junior Squash Open in 2018 and third in 2017 ... placed sixth at the first leg and third in the second leg of the CIMB National Junior Circuit in 2018 ... team was second and Teoh placed third at the Malaysian School Sports Council Games in 2018 ... won the 2017 and 2018 State Interschool Competition title ... team was third at the Malaysian School Sports Council Games in 2017 ... placed sixth in U-15 at the National Junior Squash Championship in 2017 ... took fifth at the CIMB National Junior Circuit first leg in 2017 and fourth in the second leg in 2016 ... took fourth at the CIMB National Junior Circuit Grant Final in 2016 ... team was third at the Malaysian School Sports Council Games in 2016 ... competed with Heng Ee's track and field team, winning the school's top cross country honors all four years and breaking the school's 100-meter record ... earned the school's Athlete of the Year honors as a senior ... served as a volunteer for the St. John Ambulance Flag Day and for Tutors in Action, providing online tutoring to students in Malaysia.
Personal: Interested in engineering ... daughter of Swee Leong Teoh and Bee Ling Lim ... brother Zidane is a part-time squash coach and an engineering student at Malaysia's University of Nottingham.
