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Princeton University Athletics
Friday, January 23
New York, N.Y.
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CSA Individual Championships
Zeina Zein is the CSA national champion for the second straight year.
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Back Z Back! Zein Wins Second Consecutive CSA National Championship
January 27, 2026 | Women's Squash
Princeton junior Zeina Zein keeps getting into more and more elite company.
A year ago, Zein became the sixth Tiger to win a CSA individual national title, and with Tuesday's win in Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal in New York, Zein joins Wendy Zaharko '74, Demer Holleran '89 and Julia Beaver '01, becoming just the fourth Tiger - and 13th player in event history - to win multiple CSA national titles. Harvard's Georgine Kennedy was the last to go back-to-back, winning in 2019 and 2020 after a title in 2017.
It's Princeton's 13th CSA individual title overall, and it comes a year after Zein became the first Tiger to win since Beaver won the last of her three titles in 2001.
It was another Harvard player, third-seeded Caroline Fouts, who got out to leads in both the first and second games against top-seeded Zein on Tuesday, 3-0 in the first and 6-0 in the second, in her bid to join Kennedy and others as Crimson players to win national titles, but Zein roared back each time, winning 11-8 and 12-10 before Fouts came back to get the third game 11-5. Zein fought off two game balls in game four to take the title, 14-12.
Zein grew her record in CSA championships to 12-1, making the semis as a freshman in 2024 before winning all five matches in sweeps last year and her first three matches this year. Teammate Alex Jaffe and then Fouts pushed Zein to a fourth game, and the lone loss, in the semis two years ago, saw Zein battle eventual champ Saran Nghiem of Harvard to five games.
Draws are available here.
Final
(1) Zeina Zein (Princeton) def. (3) Caroline Fouts (Harvard), 11-8, 12-10, 5-11, 14-12
A year ago, Zein became the sixth Tiger to win a CSA individual national title, and with Tuesday's win in Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal in New York, Zein joins Wendy Zaharko '74, Demer Holleran '89 and Julia Beaver '01, becoming just the fourth Tiger - and 13th player in event history - to win multiple CSA national titles. Harvard's Georgine Kennedy was the last to go back-to-back, winning in 2019 and 2020 after a title in 2017.
It's Princeton's 13th CSA individual title overall, and it comes a year after Zein became the first Tiger to win since Beaver won the last of her three titles in 2001.
It was another Harvard player, third-seeded Caroline Fouts, who got out to leads in both the first and second games against top-seeded Zein on Tuesday, 3-0 in the first and 6-0 in the second, in her bid to join Kennedy and others as Crimson players to win national titles, but Zein roared back each time, winning 11-8 and 12-10 before Fouts came back to get the third game 11-5. Zein fought off two game balls in game four to take the title, 14-12.
Zein grew her record in CSA championships to 12-1, making the semis as a freshman in 2024 before winning all five matches in sweeps last year and her first three matches this year. Teammate Alex Jaffe and then Fouts pushed Zein to a fourth game, and the lone loss, in the semis two years ago, saw Zein battle eventual champ Saran Nghiem of Harvard to five games.
Draws are available here.
Final
(1) Zeina Zein (Princeton) def. (3) Caroline Fouts (Harvard), 11-8, 12-10, 5-11, 14-12
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