NEW YORK CITY JANUARY 16–18, 2015 YOU ARE INVITED to celebrate 20 years of urban squash. 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 New York 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 Grand Central Terminal, 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 United States 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 Jonathon Power, Peter Nicol, Nick Matthew, 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 Harvard Club of Boston, University. Two SquashBusters students win scholarships to private and Harvard University. 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 ME 15 SC 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: 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.