Women's Squash All-Time Coaches
Updated following 2024-25 season
The history of women's squash coaches at Princeton University.
Name | Years | W | L | Pct. | Titles |
Betty Constable | 1971-91 | 117 | 16 | .880 | 2 Ivy, 12 National |
Emily Goodfellow | 1991-94 | 20 | 5 | .800 | |
Gail Ramsay | 1995-present | 311 | 90 | .776 | 4 Ivy, 5 National |
TOTALS | 448 | 111 | .801 | 6 Ivy, 17 National |
Betty Constable, a 2000 inductee into the United States Squash Hall of Fame, was the program's original coach and a legend in the sport. Women's squash was one of the six original women's sports at Princeton, and she guided the Tigers to 12 Howe Cup Championships. The Howe Cup, awarded to the team champion each season, is named for her family (Howe was her maiden name; she married Pepper Constable '36, captain of Princeton's 1935 national champion football team).
Constable, a five-time individual national champion in the 1950s, went 117-16 at Princeton. She passed away in 2008; you can read her New York Times obituary here.
Emily Goodfellow made history as an undergraduate student-athlete at Princeton. She is the only woman to ever win 12 varsity letters at Princeton (squash, field hockey and lacrosse), and she was named Princeton's seventh greatest athlete ever in this 2006 Daily Princetonian countdown. Goodfellow helped transition the program after the retirement of Constable, and she remains a constant presence in the Jadwin Squash Courts.
Gail Ramsay has been a champion as both a player and coach in collegiate squash. She was the first player — female or male — to win four individual collegiate championships, a feat she achieved between 1977-80 at Penn State. The A flight of the CSA national individual championships was renamed the Gail Ramsay Draw in 2002. Ramsay has led Princeton to five Howe Cup Championships and four Ivy League titles, including her most recent one in 2013.