Women's Squash Team Announces Class of 2029
June 24, 2025 | Women's Squash
Coming off a season that concluded with a No. 3 national ranking, the Princeton women's squash team will add four members from the incoming Class of 2029 to a group that includes three returners with CSA All-American honors during their careers and the reigning CSA individual national champion.
Here are the members of the Princeton women's squash Class of 2029:
Alex Jaffe
Philadelphia, Pa. • Penn Charter
Before Princeton
2023 girls U-17 Dutch Junior Open Champion ... 2024 girls U-19 Dutch Junior Open Champion ... along with sister Sam, was selected as two of three honorees for US Squash's DeRoy Sportsmanship Award, just the third time in the award's 27-year history that the honor was given to more than two members of that year's high school graduating class ... All-Inter-Ac League first team in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 ... and Inter-Ac MVP 2024 and 2025 ... competed on the U.S. team six times at the British Junior Open and twice at the World Juniors ... 2025 girls U-19 U.S. National Champion ... 2025 Women's National High School Player of the Year as awarded by the Spirit of St. Louis Squash Foundation and US Squash ... All-American 2023, 2024, 2025 ... 2025 Women's High School Eastern Region Player of the Year ... ranked No. 1 in the US as of March 2025 ... two-time girls U-13 and U-15, mixed U-13 and U-15, and girls U-19 National Doubles Champion ... 2024 Cum Laude Society Inductee ... 2024 National Society of High School Scholars ... 2021-2025 US Squash Scholar Athlete ... High Honor Roll all throughout high school ... track and field All-Inter-Ac and Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association (PAISAA) first team in 2022, 2023 and 2024 ... cross country All-Inter-Ac and PAISAA team in 2022 and 2023.
Personal
Twin sister Sam is also in the Princeton women's squash Class of 2029 ... father Billy played rugby at Penn and mother Jane ran cross country and track and field at Penn ... has a younger brother Max ... aunt Melissa is a 1995 Princeton alum and aunt Betsy is a Penn alum, as are both paternal grandparents ... undecided on a major at Princeton.
Sam Jaffe
Philadelphia, Pa. • Penn Charter
Reached a No. 1 ranking in age groups U-11, U-13 and U-15 ... along with sister Sam, was selected as two of three honorees for US Squash's DeRoy Sportsmanship Award, just the third time in the award's 27-year history that the honor was given to more than two members of that year's high school graduating class ... 2023 Pan American Games gold individual medal and gold team medal ... two-time doubles national champion at the girls U-13 level and won a doubles national championship each at the U-15 and U-19 levels ... finished second in girls U-19 at the 2024 Dutch Junior Open ... two-time third-place finisher at the U-19 level at the US Junior Open ... took second place at the 2025 girls U-19 nationals ... six-time U.S. national team member at the World Junior Championships and the British Junior Open ... won silver in the team competition at the 2024 World Junior Championships ... earned All American honors annually from 2022 to 2025 ... first-team All-Inter-Ac annually from 2021 to 2025 ... league MVP in 2023 ... earned first-team all-league honors in track and field ... earned high honors at Penn Charter annually ... 2024 Cum Laude Society inductee ... earned US Squash Scholar Athlete honors.
Personal
Twin sister Alex is also in the Princeton women's squash Class of 2029 ... father Billy played rugby at Penn and mother Jane ran cross country and track and field at Penn ... has a younger brother Max ... aunt Melissa is a 1995 Princeton alum and aunt Betsy is a Penn alum, as are both paternal grandparents.
Eliza Schuster
Baltimore, Md. • McDonogh School
Before Princeton
Six-time member of Team USA at the British Junior Open ... four-time champion or finalist at the US National Junior Championships ... winner of seven Junior Championship Tour events ... earned a top-three ranking in every junior age division ... played No. 1 on the McDonogh School varsity squash team and was a three-time high school All-American ... Dean's List all semesters at McDonogh and was a member of school's Cum Laude society/
Personal
Was a summer intern at John's Hopkins Applied Physics lab in the three summers prior to arriving at Princeton ... interested in majoring in engineering ... parents are David and Patricia Schuster ... sister Abby is in the Princeton squash Class of 2026 and sister Emily is in the Dartmouth squash Class of 2024.
Leila Yosry
Cairo, Egypt • British Columbia Canadian International School (Egypt)
Before Princeton
Finished second in U-19 at the 2025 Port Said Regional Tournament ... took third in U-23 at the 2025 Heliopolis Sporting Club Tournament ... had a fourth-place finish in U-23 at the 2025 Egyptian Cup ... earned Principal's Honor Student recognition all four years of high school and served as Deputy Vice President of the Student Council during the 2023-24 academic year.