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GALA DINNER Saturday, January 17 6:30pm Cocktail Attire NEW VENUE! Waldorf Astoria Grand Ballroom 301 Park Ave

NEW YORK CITY

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YOU ARE INVITED Friends, In 1995, a former squash professional to celebrate 20 years named Greg Zaff set out to create an unusual after-school program in Boston. The vision was that it would be an intensive, year-round program of urban squash. that combined academics, squash, mentoring and community service for kids from urban public The 20th Anniversary Weekend schools. SquashBusters launched the next year will bring together the country’s with 28 sixth graders from Boston and Cambridge urban squash community for public schools. The rest is history. three days of learning, relationship building, and celebrating. To celebrate all that has been accomplished over the past 20 years, NUSEA would like to invite you to a special weekend in City. The three-day event will bring together the entire urban squash family — board members, staff, supporters, students, graduates, and partners. It 1,500 will take place alongside the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions in , and the Urban Team STUDENTS ENROLLED Nationals, which will be hosted by Harlem’s StreetSquash NATIONWIDE and the Bronx’s CitySquash. The weekend will include meetings, panels, presentations, opportunities to play squash, a gala dinner on Saturday, and the chance to cheer on urban squash players and spend time with other supporters of urban squash from around the country. We hope you will be a part of this important and exciting event.

Sincerely,

Bill Simon Tim Wyant Chairman Executive Director NUSEA NUSEA

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20TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS & PROGRAMS 1995 URBANURBAN Two years after writing a graduate school term paper entitled ‘Bringing Squash Down from Urban Squash Leadership Conference SQUASHSQUASH the Ivory Tower, the Creation of an Urban Squash Friday, January 16 IS BORN! and Education Program’, former professional IS BORN! squash player Greg Zaff incorporates The Leadership Conference will feature a full day of presentations, panel SquashBusters in Boston. The after-school discussions and meetings at the University Club for the staff, board members program, which launches in the fall and supporters of urban squash as well as leaders in the education, of 1996 with 28 students from two foundation and nonprofit communities. public middle schools, is the first of its kind to combine the sport of squash with academic tutoring, 10th Annual Urban Team Nationals mentoring and community service Saturday & Sunday, January 17–18 activities. With a $75,000 budget and an ‘office’ in Greg’s apartment, The Urban Team Nationals will draw 300 student-athletes from across the SquashBusters runs practices and country to compete at the squash facilities of StreetSquash in Harlem and tutoring sessions at the Boston CitySquash in the Bronx. YMCA, the Harvard Club of Boston, and Harvard University. J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions Friday, Saturday & Sunday, January 16–18 The J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions is the longest running professional 1999 squash tournament in the United States and has been played in Grand George Polsky, a teacher and social Central Terminal since 1995. 20th Anniversary patrons will have access to worker and former Harvard squash first round tickets at the TOC. player, launches StreetSquash in Harlem. The program runs practices out of the Harvard Club of New Urban Squash Champions Challenge York and Columbia University... Saturday, January 17 Two SquashBusters students win scholarships to private high schools, The Urban Squash Champions Challenge will take place at the University Club the first of many urban squash and will give supporters of the country’s urban squash programs the chance players to do so. to represent their local urban squash program in an adult team competition on the singles and doubles squash courts.

20th Anniversary Gala Dinner SQUASHSMARTSSQUASHSMARTS Saturday, January 17 LAUNCHESLAUNCHES The 20th Anniversary Gala dinner, which will take place at the University Club, will honor the achievements of urban squash and the individuals and 2000 organizations that have led the movement over the past two decades. The A group of Philadelphia squash dinner will end at 9:30pm, at which time an after-party will begin. enthusiasts — Matt Stern, Lisa Stokes, Andy Nehrbas, Pam Ende, Ben Desombre, Fred Guyott, and Steve Gregg — launch SquashSmarts in partnership with Drexel University in West Philadelphia.

4 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS CO-CHAIRS 2002 Ford Family Sanford Schwartz, a squash Sue & Steve Mandel Friday player and squash parent, starts Cynthia & Bill Simon CitySquash on the Bronx campus 9AM–5PM Leadership Conference of Fordham University, giving University Club the Big Apple a second urban COMMITTEE 6PM–10PM Tournament of Champions squash program. Ashley & Jason Bernhard Grand Central Terminal Mary Jane & Jim Berrien Courtney & Nick Burgin Saturday CITYSQUASH Guy Cipriano LAUNCHES Morris Clothier 9:30AM–12PM Urban Team Nationals Brooke & Abbott Cooper CitySquash, StreetSquash, Jane & George Corrigan University Club Kathryn & J.D. Cregan Bailey & Lawson DeVries 1PM–4PM Champions Challenge Ingrid & David Ellen New York Athletic Club, Jean Ervasti Racquet & Tennis Club, SQUASHBUSTERS Teri Galluccio Union Club, University Club OPENS THE Todd Herlihy $6 MILLION 6:30PM–9:30PM 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner Sven Karlen BADGER-ROSEN Waldorf Astoria, Grand Ballroom 2003 YOUTH George Kellner 301 Kevin Klipstein SquashBusters CENTER Abby Markoe 9:30PM–11:30PM After-Party opens the $6 million Badger-Rosen Youth Center, Andrew Mathias Waldorf Astoria, Grand Ballroom 301 Park Avenue with eight squash courts and three classrooms, Nick Matthew on the campus of Northeastern University… Groton Dave Miller Sunday School, a boarding school in Groton, MA, hosts the Anil Nayar inaugural Urban Individual Nationals. The event Peter Nicol 9AM–5PM Urban Team Nationals draws more than 100 players from the country’s John Nimick CitySquash, StreetSquash, four urban squash programs. Sarah & John Overbay University Club Palmer Page Charles Parkhurst 12PM–4PM Tournament of Champions Grand Central Terminal Sage Platt 2004 George Polsky The inaugural Urban Team Sascha & Chris Proudlove If you have questions about the Nationals is held in Boston at Aileen & Brian Roberts weekend's activities, please contact SquashBusters, drawing students Francesca & Javier Rodriguez Alana Lerner at 201-805-2288 or from Boston, Harlem, the Bronx Blair Sadler [email protected] and Philadelphia. Marshall Sebring Stephen Seelbach Jill & Jeff Stanley THE FIRST Mark Talbott Kit Tatum URBAN TEAM Tracy & Bill Ullman NATIONALS Barkley & Andrew Walter Greg Zaff zv

LEADERSHIP PATRON LEVELS 2005 The leaders of the country’s four urban squash Founder • $200,000 programs — Steve Gregg, George Polsky, Tim Wyant, and Greg Zaff — co-found the National Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 10 people + 2 premier tables at Urban Squash and Education Association in the Saturday dinner + 5 tickets to Tournament of Champions Friday evening matches partnership with US Squash, and William E. + 2 special edition 20th anniversary racquets Simon Jr. steps forward to be the board chair... Conor O’Malley, a teaching pro in Chicago, Champion • $100,000 founds METROsquash and David Kay becomes Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 5 people + 2 premier tables at the Executive Director. Based at the University of Chicago, the program is the first outside the Saturday dinner + 5 tickets to Tournament of Champions Friday evening matches of the East Coast. + 2 special edition 20th anniversary racquets METROSquash Benefactor • $50,000 LAUNCHES Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 5 people + 1 premier table at the Saturday dinner + 5 tickets to Tournament of Champions Friday evening matches + 2 special edition 20th anniversary racquets

TABLES AND TICKETS TEMPEST BOWDEN Boast Table • $25,000 QUALIFIES FOR U.S. NATIONALS! Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 5 people + 1 table at the 2006 Saturday dinner + 5 tickets to Tournament of Champions Friday evening matches SquashSmarts’s Tempest + special edition 20th anniversary racquet Bowden becomes the first urban squash player to qualify for Drive Table • $15,000 the U.S. Junior Nationals, an event Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 4 people + 1 table at the open to the country’s top 32 players. Saturday dinner + 4 tickets to Tournament of Champions Friday evening matches + special edition 20th anniversary racquet SQUASH HAVEN Volley Table • $10,000 2007 AND ACCESS Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 3 people + 1 table at the Annick Winokur, Pug Winokur and a group of Yale University- Saturday dinner + 3 tickets to Tournament of Champions Friday evening matches YOUTH ACADEMY affiliated squash supporters + special edition 20th anniversary racquet LAUNCH! launch Squash Haven at Yale Weekend Patron $1,000 in New Haven, CT… Led by • Greg Scherman and Chris Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 1 person + 1 ticket to Tournament Walker, a group of San Diego of Champions Friday evening matches squash enthusiasts start Surf City Squash, now Access Individual Ticket • $500 Youth Academy, giving the Includes entry to all of the weekend’s activities and meals West Coast its first urban squash program… SquashSmarts’s $12 million Lenfest Center, with eight squash courts and three classrooms, opens in North Philadelphia. 8 zv

THE GOAL IS NOT TO DIVERSIFY THE SPORT OF SQUASH. IT IS TO USE THE GAME TO HELP KIDS FOCUS ON SCHOOL AND PREPARE FOR COLLEGE. IT’S ABOUT TEACHING LIFE LESSONS AND CHANGING LIVES.

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2008 NUSEA Mile High Squash, founded by Greg Courter, launches at the Denver Athletic Club. Assisted NUSEA’s mission is to support the by a NUSEA challenge grant, a group of squash players in creation, development and improvement Baltimore, including Charlie Wise, Nancy Cushman, Peter Heffernan, WITH SENATOR of urban squash and education programs and Abby Markoe, launch HILLARY CLINTON IN ATTENDANCE, across the United States and around SquashWise at the Meadow THE $9 MILLION Mill Athletic Club. S.L. GREEN STREETSQUASH the world. YOUTH CENTER OPENS! NUSEA achieves its mission in three ways: ALL-AMERICANALL-AMERICAN STARTUPS Helping to launch new urban squash and 2009 education programs Days after being admitted to Cornell University, CitySquash’s Jesse Pacheco finishes 5th in the Under 19 division of the U.S. BEST PRACTICES Open, one of the world’s most Supporting urban squash programs by identifying competitive junior squash best practices, creating forums to share ideas, tournaments. Jesse goes on to become a 2-time All-American collecting data, evaluating programs and providing at Cornell. challenge grants and other financial support

STUDENT EVENTS Organizing urban squash tournaments, camps and educational experiences that promote learning, health, integrity, and the pursuit of excellence

$500K NUSEA ANNUAL BUDGET 2010 NUSEA launches Racquet Up, its 10th member program, at the Northwest Activities Center in Detroit… The $1 million renovation of the Fordham University-CitySquash Squash Center is completed.

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WHAT DOES NUSEA DO? 2011 NUSEA launches Beyond Walls STARTUPS Twin Cities in Minneapolis — St. Paul... SquashBuster Yuleissy NUSEA will launch four urban squash and education programs in the Ramirez begins her freshman year 2014–2015 school year: at Harvard University, becoming the first urban squash player to Capitol Squash Cincinnati Squash Academy attend the country’s oldest college. Hartford, CT Cincinnati, OH MINNESOTAMINNESOTA Steel City Squash Squash Urbano Colombia Pittsburgh, PA Cartagena, Colombia LAUNCHESLAUNCHES

STUDENT EVENTS 2012 First Lady Michelle Obama promotes Let’s Move!, her nutrition and health initiative, Throughout the year, NUSEA organizes and funds events for the 1,500 at SquashSmarts’s Lenfest Center… Access Youth Academy’s Reyna Pacheco is students who are enrolled in our 15 member programs. admitted to Columbia University on a Gates Millennium Scholarship... The Santa Barbara School of Squash becomes NUSEA’s 12th member program and the West Coast’s 2nd… StreetSquash launches a satellite program in Newark, NJ, and SQUADS & CAMPS TOURNAMENTS SquashBusters launches a program in Lawrence, MA, partnering with the Brooks School and Phillips Academy... The Urban Squads program is launched to provide Deerfield Summer Squad Midwest Urban Championships more intensive training opportunities for urban squash’s hardest working and Deerfield Academy Kenyon College most accomplished players... The combined enrollment of year-round students Eaglebrook School at NUSEA’s 12 member programs tops 1,000 students.

Stanford Summer Squad Urban Squash URBAN SQUASH Stanford University ALUMNI Alumni Championships CHAMPIONSHIPS SquashBusters • StreetSquash MICHELLE OBAMA

SUMMER Summer Discovery Camps Urban Individual Nationals VISITS SQUASHSMARTS DISCOVERY SquashSmarts Amherst College CAMPS StreetSquash Williams College

U.S. OPEN U.S. Open Training Squad Urban Team Nationals TRAINING SquashSmarts SquashSmarts • Drexel University SQUAD U.S. Squash University of Pennsylvania

ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS

Exeter Summer School Urban Squash Citizenship Tour Phillips Exeter Academy Boston to Washington DC

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MEMBER PROGRAMS

Location: Boston Location: Harlem Location: Philadelphia Location: Bronx Location: Chicago Location: San Diego Location: New Haven Location: Denver Est. 1995 Est. 1999 Est. 2000 Est. 2002 Est. 2005 Est. 2006 Est. 2006 Est. 2007 Team Members: 225 Team Members: 260 Team Members: 125 Team Members: 180 Team Members: 115 Team Members: 70 Team Members: 100 Team Members: 45

Location: Baltimore Location: Detroit Location: Minneapolis Location: Santa Barbara Location: Oakland Location: Cleveland Location: Newark Est. 2007 Est. 2010 Est. 2011 Est. 2006 Est. 2010 Est. 2012 Est. 2012 Team Members: 65 Team Members: 80 Team Members: 30 Team Members: 35 Team Members: 40 Team Members: 35 Team Members: 55

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Lasell College SUNY Albany COLLEGE PLACEMENT Lincoln University SUNY Binghamton 178 MassBay Community College SUNY Buffalo Below are colleges and universities where Massachusetts College of SUNY Delhi GRADUATES Art and Design urban squash players have enrolled. SUNY Genesee Community College ENROLLED IN Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts SUNY Monroe Community College + Denotes a school at which an urban squash player COLLEGE Massachusetts College of SUNY Morrisville has been a member of the college squash team. Pharmacy and Health Sciences SUNY New Paltz Massasoit Community College SUNY Old Westbury Medgar Evers College Alfred State College of Technology + Columbia University SUNY Plattsburg Merrimack College Alfred University + Connecticut College Temple University Middlebury College Amherst College + Cornell University The Art Institute of Boston at Mohawk Valley Community College Lesley University Art Institute of CUNY Borough of Monmouth College The Assumption College Community College Mt. Aloysius College Trinity College Atlantic Union College CUNY Bronx Community College + + Mt. Holyoke College Tufts University Babson College CUNY City College + Mt. Ida College UC Berkeley Baldwin Wallace University CUNY Hostos Community College + Newbury College UC Davis Barnard College CUNY LaGuardia Community College New Community College UC Irvine Barry University CUNY Lehman College New England School of Photography UCLA + Bates College CUNY New Community College New York City College of Technology UC San Diego Benjamin Franklin Institute Curry College + of Technology + Dartmouth College UC Santa Cruz Northeastern University Bentley University DePaul University + UMass Amherst Northern Essex Community College Berklee School of Music + Denison University UMass Boston North Shore Community College Bloomsburg University Dickinson College UMass Dartmouth + Northwestern University + Boston College Eastern Nazarene College UMass Lowell Oberlin College + Boston University Elon University University of Hartford Pace University Borough of Manhattan Community College Emmanuel College University of Illinois, Springfield Penn State Abbington Bowie State University Everest Institute University of Iowa Pine Manor College + Bowdoin Fisher College University of Maine, Orono Pomona College Bridgewater State University Framingham State University University of Maryland Eastern Shore Providence College Brooks College + Franklin & Marshall College University of Missouri Quincy College Brown Mackie College Gordon College + University of Pennsylvania Quinnipiac University Bryn Mawr College Goucher College University of Rhode Island Rochester Institute of Technology + Bucknell University + Hamilton College University of Rochester Roxbury Community College Bunker Hill Community College Hampshire College University of South Florida Rutgers College Buffalo State University + Harvard University University of Vermont Salem State University California State University, Chico + Haverford College University of Wilmington San Diego Christian College Cambridge College High Point University Ursinus College San Diego State University Catholic University of Pernambuco + Hobart & William Smith Colleges Valencia College Simmons College Cazenovia College + Ithaca College Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez Washington Adventist University Central Connecticut State University Johnson and Wales University (Miami) Smith College Wentworth Institute of Technology Centro Universitario de Lavras Johnson and + Springfield College + Wesleyan University Clarkson University Wales University (Providence) St. Joseph’s College Wheelock College + Colby College Katharine Gibbs College St. Lawrence University Colgate College Lafayette College + Worcester Polytechnic Institute Suffolk University College of the Holy Cross LaGuardia Community College

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FRIENDS OF URBAN SQUASH OAKLAND, NEWARK Dikembe Mutombo – AND CLEVELAND! 8-time NBA All-Star 2013 Oakland’s SquashDrive, founded by executive director Lauren Patrizio, Urban Squash Cleveland, led by Max Laverty, and StreetSquash Newark, led by Leah Brown, become NUSEA’s 13th, 14th, and 15th members, Fred Krupp – CEO of respectively… The Environmental Defense Fund Midwestern Urban Cory Booker – U.S. Squash Championships, Senator from New Jersey the first major urban squash tournament held outside the northeastern United States, takes place at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio… NUSEA launches a partnership with Phillips Exeter Academy, giving 10 urban squash students the opportunity study at the prestigious school’s 5-week summer program each year.

Al Franken – U.S. Senator from Minnesota and former Saturday Night Live writer Ed Rendell – Pennsylvania Governor

Deval Patrick – Current John Lewis – Georgia Congressman Massachusetts Governor and civil rights activist Michael Dukakis – Former Massachusetts Governor NUSEA GOES INTERNATIONAL 2014 NUSEA helps launch four new programs: Cincinnati Squash Academy, Capitol Squash in Hartford, CT, Steel CitySquash in Pittsburgh, PA, and Squash Urbano David Segal – Pulitzer Colombia in Cartagena... NUSEA welcomes three programs to be International Kirsten Gillibrand – Prize Winner and New Affiliates:Urban Squash Toronto, Egoli Squash in Johannesburg, South Africa, U.S. Senator from New York York Times journalist and Khelshala in Chandigarh, India.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Drummond Bell • Rick Braddock • Marty Clark • Brooke Herlihy Cooper • J.D. Cregan David Ford, Jr. • William Gaynor • Sven Karlen • Kevin Klipstein • Abby Markoe David Miller • Charles Parkhurst • George Polsky • William E. Simon, Jr., Chair • Kit Tatum Oliver Weisberg • Greg Zaff

BOARD OF OVERSEERS

Gordon Anderson • Frank Baxter • Collin Bell • Guy Cipriano • Morris Clothier • Diana Dowling Ned Edwards • Victor Elmaleh • Alan Goldberg • Steve Mandel • Jim Piereson Brian Roberts • Andy Walter • Peg Wyant

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Paul Assaiante • Jeff Blumberg • Nick Burgin • James Hahn • David Kay • Eashwar Krishnan Justin Lungstrum • Ted Marmor • Howard McMorris • Clare Muñana • Justin Muzinich Richard Nesson • Renato Paiva • Javier Rodriguez • Stephen Seelbach Paul Shang • Oliver Weisberg