US Squash Hall of Famers: Fred and Carol Weymuller

August 29th, 2008 Mithun Mukherjee Posted in Awards, General | Comments »

On Saturday, October 4, 2008, the national squash association, U.S. Squash will hold its first annual Hall of Fame Gala Dinner at The Pierre Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Rochester’s own Fred and Carol Weymuller, founders of the GVC junior program, are two of the four inductees in to the Hall of Fame. The Rochester-Weymuller connection has been written about in an earlier post.. This is a fitting tribute to the Weymullers who have contributed so much to the sport, both locally and nationally. Read more about the US Hall of Fame Gala Dinner.

Excerpt about the Weymullers from the book Squash: A History of the Game By James Zug:

“…In 1965, The Heights Casino started its junior program when Fred Weyuller resigned his membership to become a tennis professional at the club. Weymuller, a Heights native who had worked at the Wall Street Journal, soon shuttled kids to squash courts because his junior tennis program was oversubscribed. In 1970 he brought his soon-to-be wife Carol into the club, and the young couple started a Sunday afternoon squash league and, in 1974, a morning junior program. In just six years, they produced an amazing generation: Bobby Ankerson, the Boyums, the Claytons, the Deans, the Franks, the MacKays, the McCarthys, the McConnells, Eric Vlcek and Erik Wohlgemuth. In 1977 Heights became the first club to send a group program to the nationals. At the same time, the Weymullers, Geff Fisher and Barbara Stewart persuaded Warren Smith, the president of the USSRA to create a standing junior committee. In 1978 the Weymullers started the first summer junior squash camp….”