Weymullers in the D&C

September 29th, 2008 Mithun Mukherjee Posted in General, Press

In a few days, Carol and Fred Weymuller will be inducted into the US Squash Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan. This past weekend, the D&C ran a great piece by Leo Roth on the couple’s many contributions to our sport:

“…A list of the championship players they’ve coached and past honors they’ve won could stuff a 21-by-32 squash court to the ceiling….”
“…Fred was the head pro at Heights Casino Club and hired Carol, one of the top tennis players in New England, in 1970 after they worked together at a camp in New Hampshire.
Carol starred on the men’s team at Bethany College, once appeared in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” section, and played in the first U.S. Open at Forest Hills. She eagerly welcomed the chance to learn from Fred, a former writer for The Wall Street Journal who had authored the tennis bible Ed Faulkner’s Tennis: How to Play It, How to Teach It….”
“…What they shared was a love for each other, a love for tennis and squash, and a passion for teaching it…”
“…And in the early 1990s, they were among the first in the United States to urge adoption of a softer ball and a larger court so squash in this country would conform to the rest of the world….”
“…As a player, Carol captained two U.S. teams that competed in the squash world championships and she won 11 consecutive Rochester pro titles at one point….”

Read the entire article here.