Urban Youth Squash on the Today Show

February 27th, 2009 Mithun Mukherjee Posted in Education, General, Press, Video

Former Rochesterian and GVC player, Jim Moore is the squash coach at the prestigious Blair Academy boarding school in New Jersey. His student, Manuela Peres, a graduate of CitySquash was featured in this wonderful clip that aired on the Today Show this morning. The segment focused on CitySquash, a free youth enrichment/mentorship based urban squash program in Bronx, N.Y. Incidentally, Tim Wyant, Executive Director of CitySquash, also played in the first ever Rochester ProAm seven years ago in 2002 when it was a challenger event with six entrants! (Thanks for the info, Jim!)

More information on the national urban squash movement at www.nationalurbansquash.org.
More inspiring videos on just two of the many growing urban squash programs across the country: