Millions of squash enthusiasts around the world, but far too few websites to cover this great game.

Introducing www.SquashZAG.com   We're like a website, blog, magazine and Facebook rolled into one.  READ articles, WATCH videos, CONNECT with friends new & old, SHARE ideas, blogs, videos and pictures.

We hope to deepen and broaden your enjoyment of squash with fresh ideas, coverage, content and use of web technologies.  Squash is more than scores and quotes.  Squash can benefit by choice and healthy competition.

With your support and participation we hope to create a destination that will enable the squash community to be informed, engaged and motivated to share and interact with eachother.  

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By Maureen R. Weiss, Ph.D
Originally Published January 2008

Coaches occupy multiple roles in children’s lives as sport participants. Coaches must be excellent instructors so that youth learn and improve skills, increase knowledge of strategies and tactics, and achieve their goals.

Coaches can also inspire children to maintain motivation for participating in sport and, in so doing, allow them opportunities to accrue such benefits as positive self-esteem, enjoyable experiences, long-lasting friendships, and a positive attitude toward the value of lifetime physical activity.

Many thanks as always
SB at www.squashblog.co.uk

The first World Squash Championships held in England for over twenty years were an opportunity for the sport to showcase its finest talent and provide a spectacle that would indisputably warrant Olympic inclusion.

But how did the event measure up ? ...

Official Release
By Howard Harding

The bid by Squash to get onto the Olympic Games programme for 2016 took a step forward today (Friday) when a World Squash Federation delegation offered the credentials of the sport to the Olympic Programme Commission in Lausanne.

Courtesy of Eric Williams
From Seattle Squash League

1. Protect your eye sight.
2. Required by US Squash to participate our sanctioned league

2008 Qatar Classic
Doha, Qatar
By Afzal Mehmood Shaikh
QOC - Sports Editor

Defending champion and WISPA world number one Nicol David of Malaysia convincingly retained her Qatar Classic title defeating Natalie Grinham in Friday's final at the Khalifa Tennis and Squash Complex.

The 25-year-old Malaysian ace, extended her unbeaten run of 53 matches with a flawless straight games win 11-6, 11-3, 11-9 in 29 minutes over the Dutch Grinham in $82,000 women's event.

By Tim Bacon, M.A., B.P.H.E.
Science of Coaching Squash
Smith College

Do you want to have a cohesive team with motivated athletes - and great coach evaluations from your athletes? The you cannot just “be yourself”, because that is a “hit and miss” strategy that we know rarely works.

By Kevin Kydd
Executive Director
Squash BC

What is this article is all about you may ask? I’m going to put down some basic do’s and don’ts for squash players, coaches, parents and spectators. There have been some situations come up in the past six months and I’m not sure all people know what they should and shouldn’t do in sport.

By Shawn Patton
Originally Published January 2008

What role has squash played in your life?   Better health ... lifelong friendships ... comraderie ... networking ...

Listed below are a couple ideas for strengthening your Squash Karma?   

Help us add to the list by sending an e-mail or by adding a Comment with your deas or suggestions on ways to "give back" to the sport. 

By Shawn Patton
Based on Commentary by Rod Love
From Globe and Mail

With apologies to Archimedes I had my own Eureka moment, not in the bath but rather at Starbucks the other day. 

While enjoying my cup of java and a respite from clients and the trials and tribulations in stock and credit markets, I was reading an Opinion article by Rod Love in the Globe & Mail when my epithany or eureka moment hit.  

By Passant Rabie
From Egypt Today

Quiet laughter, hushed chatter and the occasional ringing of a cell phone were the only sounds filling the VIP hall of Cairo International Airport on October 20, just after midnight. But just a few seconds later, Ramy Ashour stepped off his five-hour flight from the United Kingdom and turned the quiet terminal into a chaotic flurry of press, family and rowdy friends, all vying for a moment with the champion squash player.

By Shawn Patton
Originally Published June 2008

This past summer my wife and I took our 2 young children to an outdoor miniature railroad. 

Prior to our visit (and my poking my nose around the place and asking a few questions) I had no idea that the railroad is operated by a non-profit society and staffed almost entirely by volunteers. I am not just talking about a volunteer board either.  From the cashier, conductor, engineer, mechanics, gift shop to the groundkeepers .... everyone was a volunteer obviously passionate and committed to the trains.  The enthusiasm and energy these folks exuded was truly something.

What has this to do with squash you might ask?  

Views and News about Squash
By Ryan Barnett
From www.squashtalk.com

JEAN DELIERRE - A PASSION BECOMES A COMMITMENT TO HIS SPORT

Nov 25, 2003  Sometimes a person just has to take a step back and look at things from a different perspective. The problems facing professional squash are widely known and have been well documented. The interaction between players and referees, lack of financial resources, and failure to get squash included within the Olympic games have all been beaten to death by the media. Yet what are the results?

By Tim Bacon, M.A., B.P.H.E. 
Smith College 
From Science of Coaching Squash 

One of the most important things I learned during the the Periodization (Annual Planning) task of my Squash Canada Level 4 Course in 1987, was the importance of sequencing training activities within a practice according to the principle of “fatiguability of the Central Nervous System (CNS)” (Bompa, 1999). 

This principle states that activities that require a fresh well-rested athlete should be performed first, while those activities that can have a good training effect when performed in a fatigued state should be carried out later in the practice.