2025-26 Women's Squash Roster
Sonya Sasson
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Stuyvesant
- Hometown:
- New York, N.Y.
At Princeton
2024-25
Had a 6-5 record in dual matches, going 3-0 at sixth position and 3-5 at seventh.
2023-24
Finished with a 12-2 record in dual matches, going 6-1 at seventh position and 6-1 at eighth.
Before Princeton
Earned 2023 US Squash All-American honors and was a four-time recipient of the organization’s Scholar Athlete Award (2020-23) … held a No. 2 national ranking in U-17 girls and No. 5 in U-19 girls … top-seeded member of the US Junior National Team in 2023, earning a top-five finish, and the Northeast Regional Team … competed for Team USA at the 2022 and 2023 World Junior Championships and the 2022 British Open, and on Team USA’s junior squad against Canada to win the 2019 Battle of the Border Championships … had nine top-eight Junior Championships finishes in her final two seasons of junior squash … won the East Coast Junior Open in 2021 … earned the College Board’s Hispanic Recognition Award … recipient of the Gustave Wiedeman Memorial Scholarship … co-authored a children’s book titled “Ready, Set, Squash!” … interned with Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital and the New York Stem Cell Foundation … was a science editor for the Stuyvesant student newspaper.
Personal
Parents are Lata and Arley Sasson … both parents are Penn alums and mother Lata is an alumna of the squash program … has a brother, Milan … majoring in neuroscience.
2024-25
Had a 6-5 record in dual matches, going 3-0 at sixth position and 3-5 at seventh.
2023-24
Finished with a 12-2 record in dual matches, going 6-1 at seventh position and 6-1 at eighth.
Before Princeton
Earned 2023 US Squash All-American honors and was a four-time recipient of the organization’s Scholar Athlete Award (2020-23) … held a No. 2 national ranking in U-17 girls and No. 5 in U-19 girls … top-seeded member of the US Junior National Team in 2023, earning a top-five finish, and the Northeast Regional Team … competed for Team USA at the 2022 and 2023 World Junior Championships and the 2022 British Open, and on Team USA’s junior squad against Canada to win the 2019 Battle of the Border Championships … had nine top-eight Junior Championships finishes in her final two seasons of junior squash … won the East Coast Junior Open in 2021 … earned the College Board’s Hispanic Recognition Award … recipient of the Gustave Wiedeman Memorial Scholarship … co-authored a children’s book titled “Ready, Set, Squash!” … interned with Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital and the New York Stem Cell Foundation … was a science editor for the Stuyvesant student newspaper.
Personal
Parents are Lata and Arley Sasson … both parents are Penn alums and mother Lata is an alumna of the squash program … has a brother, Milan … majoring in neuroscience.
Princeton Athletics 2023-24 Highlights
Tuesday, June 04
Highlights from 2022 Gary Walters ’67 PVC Awards Banquet
Wednesday, June 22
Princeton Athletics 2021-22 Highlights
Monday, June 06
PVC Winter Coaches Luncheon (2022)
Tuesday, March 01
