NEW YORK CITY JANUARY 16–18, 2015 YOU ARE INVITED to celebrate 20 years of urban . The 20th Anniversary Weekend will bring together the country’s urban squash community for three days of learning, relationship building, and celebrating.

1,500 STUDENTS ENROLLED NATIONWIDE Friends, In 1995, a former squash professional named Greg Zaff set out to create an unusual after-school program $70 in Boston. The vision was that it would be an intensive, MILLION year-round program that combined academics, squash, DONATED TO mentoring and community service for kids from urban URBAN SQUASH public schools. SquashBusters launched the next year SINCE 1995 with 28 sixth graders from Boston and Cambridge public schools. The rest is history. 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 will take place alongside the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions in , and the Urban Team Nationals, which will be hosted by Harlem’s StreetSquash 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 mark your calendars and be a part of this important and exciting event.

Sincerely,

Bill Simon Tim Wyant Chairman Executive Director NUSEA NUSEA 20TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS AND PROGRAMS 4

Urban Squash Leadership Conference JP Morgan Tournament of Champions Friday Saturday & Sunday A full day of presentations, panel discussions and meetings for the The longest running professional squash tournament in the debuted in 1930 and leaders of urban squash. Executive directors, staff, board members has been played in Grand Central Terminal since 1995. The event has lived up to its name, with and special guests will meet and participate in panel discussions and past winners including such legends as , , , and Ramy deliver presentations on program impact, lessons learned, and future Ashour. StreetSquash and CitySquash are official charities of the Tournament of Champions and challenges and opportunities in urban squash. The day will also feature their students are given the opportunity to meet the pros and play on the all-glass court. 20th presentations by national leaders in the education, foundation and Anniversary patrons will be provided tickets to the TOC matches on Saturday and Sunday. nonprofit communities.

Urban Squash Champions Challenge 10th Annual Urban Squash Team Nationals Friday, Saturday & Sunday Saturday & Sunday The Urban Squash Champions Challenge will give supporters of the country’s urban squash 300 urban squash student-athletes from across the country will programs the chance to represent their local urban squash program in an adult team compete in the Urban Squash Team Nationals, hosted by StreetSquash in competition on the singles and doubles squash courts. The tournament will pit cities against Harlem and CitySquash in the Bronx. Elementary, middle and high school one another and culminate with a final on Sunday. students from 15 cities will compete on 5-person teams for the national championships in U13 through U19 age divisions. 20th 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner Anniversary attendees are invited to watch matches on Saturday Saturday and Sunday and cheer on the team from their city. The 20th Anniversary Gala dinner will honor the achievements of urban squash and the individuals and organizations that have led the movement over the past two decades. The dinner will end at 9:30pm, at which time an after-party with music and dancing will begin.

1995 Two years after writing a graduate school term paper entitled ‘Bringing Squash Down from the Ivory Tower, the Creation of an Urban Squash and Education Program’, former professional squash player Greg Zaff incorporates SquashBusters in Boston. The after-school program, which launches in the fall of 1996 with 28 students from two public URBANURBAN middle schools, is the first of its kind to combine the sport of squash with academic 1999 SQUASH tutoring, mentoring and community service SQUASH activities. With a $75,000 budget and an George Polsky, a teacher and social worker and former Harvard ‘office’ in Greg’s apartment, SquashBusters squash player, launches StreetSquash in Harlem. The program ISIS BORN!BORN! runs practices and tutoring sessions at the runs practices out of the Harvard Club of New York and Columbia Boston YMCA, the , University. Two SquashBusters students win scholarships to private and . high schools, the first of many urban squash players to do so. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 5 CO-CHAIRS Ford Family SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sue & Steve Mandel The University Club will be the base of operations for the 20th Anniversary Weekend, and activities and meetings Cynthia and Bill Simon there will include meals.

Friday, January 16 Sunday, January 18 COMMITTEE 9AM–5PM Leadership Conference 9AM–11AM Champions Challenge Bailey & Lawson DeVries 5PM–7PM Champions Challenge 11AM–3PM Tournament of Champions Sven Karlen and Urban Team Nationals 7PM–10PM Tournament of Champions George Kellner Kevin Klipstein Saturday, January 17 Andrew Mathias Nick Matthew 8AM–9:30AM Leadership Conference Dave Miller 75 10AM–12:30PM Champions Challenge Peter Nicol URBAN SQUASHERS 12PM–2PM Lunch John Nimick STARTING COLLEGE Palmer Page 1:30PM–5PM Tournament of Champions IN THE FALL OF 2014 Charles Parkhurst 2PM–4PM Urban Team Championships George Polsky 6:30PM–11:30PM 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner & Dance Aileen & Brian Roberts Marshall Sebring Stephen Seelbach Jill & Jeff Stanley Greg Zaff SQUASHSMARTSSQUASHSMARTS LAUNCHESLAUNCHES 2000 A group of Philadelphia squash enthusiasts — CITYSQUASH Matt Stern, Lisa Stokes, Andy Nehrbas, Pam LAUNCHES Ende, Ben Desombre and Fred Guyott — 2002 launch SquashSmarts Sanford Schwartz, a squash player and squash in partnership with parent, starts CitySquash on the Bronx campus of Drexel University in Fordham University, giving the Big Apple a second West Philadelphia. urban squash program. 6

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.

Greg Zaff Founder and CEO, SquashBusters LEADERSHIP PATRON LEVELS TABLES AND TICKETS 7

Founder • $200,000 Boast Table • $25,000 Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 10 people + 2 premier tables at Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 5 people + 1 table at the the Saturday dinner + 5 tickets to Tournament of Champions weekend matches Saturday dinner + 5 tickets to Tournament of Champions weekend matches + 2 special edition 20th anniversary racquets + special edition 20th anniversary racquet Benefactor • $100,000 Drive Table • $15,000 Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 5 people + 2 premier tables at Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 4 people + 1 table at the the Saturday dinner + 5 tickets to Tournament of Champions weekend matches Saturday dinner + 4 tickets to Tournament of Champions weekend matches + 2 special edition 20th anniversary racquets + special edition 20th anniversary racquet Champion • $50,000 Volley Table • $10,000 Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 5 people + 1 premier table at Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 3 people + 1 table at the the Saturday dinner + 5 tickets to Tournament of Champions weekend matches Saturday dinner + 3 tickets to Tournament of Champions weekend matches + 2 special edition 20th anniversary racquets + special edition 20th anniversary racquet Weekend Patron • $1,000 Includes entry to all of the weekend’s meals for 1 person + 1 ticket to Tournament of Champions weekend matches Individual ticket • $500 Includes entry to all of the weekend’s activities and meals

SQUASHBUSTERS OPENS THE 2004 $6 MILLION The inaugural Urban Team BADGER-ROSEN Nationals is held in Boston at YOUTH SquashBusters, drawing students CENTER from Boston, Harlem, the Bronx and Philadelphia.

2003 THE FIRST SquashBusters opens the $6 million Badger-Rosen Youth Center, with eight squash courts and URBAN TEAM three classrooms, on the campus of Northeastern NATIONALS University… Groton School, a boarding school in Groton, MA, hosts the inaugural Urban Individual Nationals. The event draws more than 100 players from the country’s four urban squash programs. 8 NUSEA

NUSEA’s mission is to support the creation, development and improvement of urban squash and education programs across the United States and around the world. NUSEA has 15 member programs in 15 U.S. cities that enroll year-round more than 1,500 elementary, middle, high school and college students. 100+ COMBINED STAFF

2005 The leaders of the country’s four urban squash programs — Steve Gregg, George Polsky, Tim Wyant, and Greg Zaff — co-found the National Urban Squash and Education TEMPEST BOWDEN METROSquash Association in partnership QUALIFIES FOR with US Squash, and William E. LAUNCHES Simon Jr. steps forward U.S. NATIONALS! to be the board chair... Conor O’Malley, a teaching pro in Chicago, founds 2006 METROsquash. Based at the SquashSmarts’s Tempest Bowden University of Chicago, the becomes the first urban squash player to program is the first outside qualify for the U.S. Junior Nationals, an of the East Coast. event open to the country’s top 32 players. MEMBER PROGRAMS 9

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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: 111 Team Members: 155 Team Members: 101 Team Members: 60 Team Members: 90 Team Members: 46

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: 70 Team Members: 80 Team Members: 30 Team Members: 36 Team Members: 37 Team Members: 35 Team Members: 28 10

SQUASH TAUGHT ME RESPECT, COMMITMENT, DEDICATION, AND HARD WORK.

Reyna Pacheco Access Youth Academy graduate and junior WHAT DOES NUSEA DO? 11

STARTUPS BEST PRACTICES NUSEA launches urban squash NUSEA will launch four NUSEA IDENTIFIES AND PROMOTES THE and education programs. urban squash and education ADOPTION OF ‘BEST PRACTICES’ BY: programs in the 2014–2015 Once a partnership is formed with • Conducting annual, metric-based school year: evaluations of member programs a squash facility, we partner with local public schools, build a board of Capitol Squash • Providing forums for the directors, secure funding, and hire an Hartford, CT sharing of information and ideas executive director. After the program between programs launches, we continue to advise the Cincinnati Squash Academy • Making targeted challenge grants program’s leadership and support Cincinnati, OH to members programs the organization. Steel City Squash Pittsburgh, PA

Squash Urbano Colombia Cartagena, Colombia $500K NUSEA ANNUAL BUDGET

SQUASH HAVEN 2008 AND ACCESS YOUTH MileHigh Squash, ACADEMY LAUNCH! founded by Greg Courter, 2007 launches at the Denver Annick Winokur, Pug Winokur and a group of Athletic Club. Assisted by a Yale University-affiliated squash supporters launch NUSEA challenge grant, a Squash Haven at Yale in New Haven, CT… Led by group of squash players in WITH SENATOR Greg Scherman and Chris Walker, a group of San Diego Baltimore, including Charlie HILLARY CLINTON squash enthusiasts start Surf City Squash, now Access Wise, Nancy Cushman, IN ATTENDANCE, Youth Academy, giving the West Coast its first urban Peter Heffernan, and Abby THE $9 MILLION squash program… SquashSmarts’s $12 million Lenfest Markoe, launch SquashWise S.L. GREEN STREETSQUASH Center, with eight squash courts and three classrooms, at the Meadow Mill YOUTH CENTER OPENS! opens in North Philadelphia. Athletic Club. WHAT DOES NUSEA DO? 12

EVENTS ACADEMIC SQUADS & CAMPS TOURNAMENTS SCHOLARSHIPS Throughout the year, NUSEA organizes and funds events for the Deerfield Summer Squad Midwest Urban Championships 1,500 students who are enrolled Deerfield Academy Kenyon College in our 15 member programs. Our Eaglebrook School 100 students tournaments provide urban squash 40 students students from around the country the opportunity to compete Stanford Summer Squad Urban Squash Exeter Summer School Stanford University URBAN SQUASH Alumni Championships Phillips Exeter Academy with each other, to develop lasting ALUMNI friendships, and spend time on 35 students CHAMPIONSHIPS SquashBusters • StreetSquash 10 students college campuses. The training 75 students squads and summer camps give our players the opportunity SUMMER Summer Discovery Camps Urban Individual Nationals to travel and train together under DISCOVERY SquashSmarts • StreetSquash Amherst & Williams College CAMPS the direction of toptier coaches. 70 students 390 students NUSEA also provides more than $100,000 in academic scholarships and non-squash experiences. U.S. OPEN U.S. Open Training Squad Urban Team Nationals Urban Squash Citizenship Tour TRAINING SquashSmarts • U.S. Squash SquashSmarts Boston to Washington DC SQUAD 30 students University of Pennsylvania, Drexel 22 students 375 students

100+ COMBINED STAFF

2009 Days after being admitted to Cornell University, CitySquash’s Jesse Pacheco finishes 5th in the Under 19 division of 2010 the U.S. Open, one of the world’s most NUSEA launches Racquet Up, its 10th member program, at the ALL-AMERICAN competitive junior squash tournaments. Northwest Activities Center in Detroit… The $1 million renovation of Jesse goes on to become a 2-time the Fordham University-CitySquash Squash Center is completed. All-American at Cornell. COLLEGE PLACEMENT 13

Below are colleges and universities where urban squash players have enrolled. + Denotes a school at which an urban squash player has been a member of the college squash team.

Alfred State College Clarkson University Johnson and Wales Pomona College UC San Diego of Technology + Colby College University (Miami) Providence College UC Santa Cruz Alfred University Colgate College Johnson and Wales Quincy College UMass Amherst University (Providence) Amherst College College of the Holy Cross Quinnipiac University UMass Boston Katharine Gibbs College Art Institute of + Columbia University Rochester Institute UMass Dartmouth Lafayette College + Connecticut College of Technology UMass Lowell Assumption College LaGuardia Community College + Cornell University Roxbury Community College University of Hartford Atlantic Union College Lasell College CUNY Borough of Rutgers College University of Illinois, Springfield Babson College Lincoln University Community College Salem State University University of Iowa MassBay Community College Baldwin Wallace University CUNY Bronx San Diego Christian College University of Maine, Orono Community College Massachusetts College of Barnard College San Diego State University University of Maryland Art and Design Barry University CUNY City College Simmons College Eastern Shore Massachusetts College of + Bates College CUNY Hostos Sistema Universitario University of Missouri Community College Liberal Arts Ana G. Mendez University of Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin Institute CUNY LaGuardia Massachusetts College of + Smith College University of Rhode Island of Technology Community College Pharmacy and Health Sciences Springfield College University of Rochester Bentley University CUNY Lehman College Massasoit Community College St. Joseph’s College University of South Florida Berklee School of Music CUNY New Community College Medgar Evers College + St. Lawrence University University of Vermont Bloomsburg University Curry College Merrimack College Suffolk University University of Wilmington + Boston College + Dartmouth College Mohawk Valley SUNY Albany Ursinus College DePaul University Community College + Boston University SUNY Binghamton Valencia College + Denison University Monmouth College Borough of Manhattan Mt. Aloysius College SUNY Buffalo Washington Community College Dickinson College + Mt. Holyoke College SUNY Adventist University Bowie State University Eastern Nazarene College Mt. Ida College SUNY Genesee Wentworth Institute + Bowdoin Elon University Community College of Technology Newbury College Bridgewater State University Emmanuel College SUNY Monroe + Wesleyan University New Community College Brooks College Everest Institute Community College Wheelock College Fisher College New School SUNY Morrisville Brown Mackie College of Photography Worcester Polytechnic Institute Framingham State University SUNY New Paltz Bryn Mawr College New York City College + Bucknell University + Franklin & Marshall College of Technology SUNY Old Westbury Bunker Hill Community College Gordon College + New York University SUNY Plattsburg Buffalo State University Goucher College + Northeastern University Temple University California State + Hamilton College Northern Essex The Art Institute of Boston at University, Chico Hampshire College Community College Lesley University 175 Cambridge College + Harvard University North Shore The College of New Rochelle GRADUATES Catholic University + Haverford College Community College + Trinity College ENROLLED IN of Pernambuco High Point University Northwestern University + Tufts University COLLEGE Cazenovia College Hostos Community College Oberlin College UC Berkeley Central Connecticut + Hobart & William Pace University UC Davis State University Smith Colleges Penn State Abbington UC Irvine Centro Universitario de Lavras + Ithaca College Pine Manor College UCLA 14

STUDENTS BEGIN TO REALIZE THAT THROUGH HARD WORK THEY CAN ACCESS ANYTHING. IT IS A VERY POWERFUL MESSAGE.

David Kay Executive Director, METROsquash FRIENDS OF URBAN SQUASH 15

John Lewis – Georgia Congressman and civil rights activist

Deval Patrick – Current Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis – Former Fred Krupp – CEO of Massachusetts Governor Environmental Defense Fund Dikembe Mutombo – Corey Booker – U.S. 8-time NBA All-Star Senator of New Jersey

David Segal – Pulitzer Al Franken – U.S. Senator of Minnesota Ed Rendell – Kirsten Gillibrand – Prize Winner and New and former Saturday Night Live actor Pennsylvania Governor U.S. Senator of New York York Times journalist

2011 2012 MICHELLE NUSEA launches Beyond Walls Twin Cities First Lady Michelle Obama promotes Let’s Move!, OBAMA VISITS in Minneapolis — St. Paul... SquashBuster Yuleissy her nutrition and health initiative, at SquashSmarts’s SQUASHSMARTS Ramirez begins her freshman year at Harvard Lenfest Center… Access Youth Academy’s Reyna University, becoming the first urban squash Pacheco is admitted to Columbia University on a Gates player to attend the country’s oldest college. 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 SquashBusters launches a program in Lawrence, MA, partnering with the Brooks School and Phillips Academy... The Urban Squads program is launched to provide more intensive training opportunities for urban squash’s hardest working and most accomplished players... The combined enrollment of year-round students at NUSEA’s 12 member programs tops 1,000 students. 16 BOARD OF DIRECTORS BOARD OF OVERSEERS INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Drummond Bell Gordon Anderson Rick Braddock Frank Baxter Paul Assaiante Marty Clark Collin Bell Jeff Blumberg J.D. Cregan Guy Cipriano Nick Burgin David Ford, Jr. Morris Clothier James Hahn William Gaynor Stephen Columbia David Kay Julie Greenwood Diana Dowling Eashwar Krishnan Sven Karlen Ned Edwards Justin Lungstrum Kevin Klipstein Victor Elmaleh Ted Marmor David Miller Alan Goldberg Howard McMorris Charles Parkhurst Steve Mandel Clare Muñana George Polsky Jim Piereson Justin Muzinich William E. Simon, Jr., Chair Brian Roberts Renato Paiva 3 Kit Tatum Andy Walter Javier Rodriguez INTERNATIONAL Oliver Weisberg Peg Wyant Stephen Seelbach AFFILIATE Greg Zaff, Founder Paul Shang PROGRAMS Oliver Weisberg

2013 2014 Oakland’s SquashDrive, NUSEA helps launch four new NUSEA GOES founded by executive OAKLAND, NEWARK programs: Cincinnati Squash Academy, director Lauren Patrizio; Capitol Squash in Hartford, CT, Steel INTERNATIONAL Urban Squash Cleveland, AND CLEVELAND! City Squash in Pittsburgh, PA, and led by Max Laverty; and Squash Urbano Colombia StreetSquash Newark, led by in Cartagena... NUSEA Leah Brown, become NUSEA’s 13th, 14th, and 15th members, welcomes three programs respectively… The Midwestern Urban Squash Championships, the first major to be International urban squash tournament held outside the northeastern United States, takes Affiliates:Urban Squash place at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio… NUSEA launches a partnership with Toronto, Egoli Squash Exeter Academy, giving 10 urban squash students the opportunity study at in Johannesburg, South the prestigious school’s 5-week summer program each year. Africa, and Khelshala in Chandigarh, India NUSEA • 555 Eighth Avenue Suite 1102 • New York • NY • 10018 T 718.220.9340 • F 718.220.7639 • www.nationalurbansquash.org