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National Urban Squash and Education Association Indeed, good things have been happening to Jose and his hardworking CitySquash teammates. The five graduates are expected to receive over half a million dollars financial aid in over the course of their college careers. Determined to direct all of its students toward college, CitySquash has continued to make its high school academic program more rigorous, including the launch of its College Prep Summer Session. The goal of this curriculum is to ensure that all students are academically prepared for the college application process and college itself. The inaugural summer program, which began in June 2009, consisted of an intensive six-week academic program for all rising seniors, which included SAT preparation sessions, college essay workshops, financial aid seminars, and general college application support. It also involved a four-week academic program for CitySquash’s high school underclassmen, including literacy development classes, SAT preparation sessions, and college awareness activities. CitySquashers also got a first-hand look at higher education when they hit the road with High School Academic Director, Dora Lubin. On Thursday, June 2nd, team members piled into the CitySquash van for the first college trip of the summer: a visit to nearby Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, NY. Over the course of the summer, the students visited a wide range of colleges and universities, including Drexel, Haverford, George Washington, Georgetown, Wesleyan, Connecticut College, Boston University, and Tufts. These trips gave students a chance to determine which traits they hope to find, and which they would rather avoid, in their future college. COLLEGE! A Publication of CitySquash BY TOM THUMB In a year marked by especially competitive applicant pools and reduced financial aid programs, five more CitySquashers were accepted to boarding schools last spring. After months of studying for the SSAT, weeks of working on applications and hours of interviews, the CitySquash gang was jubilant when acceptance letters were mailed out in March. Kingsley Amoako joined his older sister Doris at the Canterbury School in New Milford, CT, where CitySquash teammates Chris Fernandez and Freddy Hernandez lead him on the squash court. Not far down the road, Andrew Cadienhead now attends the Taft School in Watertown, CT. The first CitySquasher to enroll at Taft, Andrew got a head start on his first year by spending the summer at Taft Summer School, taking classes, playing squash and meeting future classmates. Fernando Flores joined his older teammate Seetreeon Torres at the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, NY. When asked about leaving home for the first time, Squashing the Competition BY HATTIE CARROLL Showing their prowess on the squash court, CitySquashers brought home more titles than ever in the 2008-2009 squash season. At the Urban Team Championships, held at the newly- opened S.L. Green StreetSquash Center in Harlem, CitySquash competed against eight other urban programs from around the country and won three of the event’s six draws. At the Urban Individual Nationals, hosted by Williams College, CitySquash won seven of the eight divisions. In all, CitySquashers have won 39 of the 63 Urban National events in which they have competed since 2003. CitySquashers have also been competitive outside of the urban ranks. After winning a total of five non-urban tournaments in its first six years of operation, last season CitySquashers won four Gold An Urban Youth Enrichment Program Winter 2009/2010 Fernando, said “I’m looking forward to everything, but I’m really excited to play new sports, meet new people, get close to my teachers and be independent.” Also in Upstate New York is Felipe Pantle, CitySquash’s first student at the Millbrook School in Millbrook, NY. And Darrius Campbell crossed the Hudson to join CitySquash sophomore Manuela Perez at Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ. In all, CitySquash has placed 29 students into Catholic, private day and boarding schools since its first class of students graduated from middle school in 2005. Taken together, these students will receive $3.8 million in financial aid from their respective schools over the course of their high school careers. Other high schools where CitySquashers have matriculated include Avon Old Farms, LaSalle, Loomis Chaffee, Salisbury, St. George’s, St. Paul’s, St. Pius V, Westover, and Williston Northampton. More CitySquashers Off to Prep School! tournaments, five Silver, four Bronze, and three New England Interscholas- tic Championships. Playing for St. George’s School, Jesse Pacheco won the final of the #2 draw of the A Flight, besting her Greenwich Academy opponent 12-10 in the fifth game. Chris Fernandez and Myriam Kelly, playing for Canterbury and Westover respectively, won the same draw in the B Flights. One team member, Jocelyn McKenzie, broke a CitySquash record by earning a national ranking of #9. Ana Kelly, who plays #1 at Mercersburg Academy, won the GU17 Urban Nationals at Williams College in June. Sophomore Cris Margaret Frias (left) and seniors Katrina Intal, Jesse Pacheco, and Jennifer Arboleda are among the CitySquashers who have paved the way for their younger teammates at boarding schools. Edgardo Gonzalez graduated from the Salisbury School in June and is now a freshman on the varsity squash team at Hobart Williams and Smith. Inaugural Class Heads to College BY RUBIN CARTER Seven years after Jose Alvarez, Bogar Avila, Edgardo Gonzalez, Rochell Hudson, and Tanesha Jackson attended the first-ever CitySquash tryout as wide-eyed M.S. 45 sixth graders, they became CitySquash’s first class of high school graduates and all five enrolled in college in the fall. Tanesha, a graduate of The Hill School in Pottstown, PA, matriculated at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Edgardo and Jose, graduates of the Connecticut’s Canterbury and Salisbury Schools respectively, make up a CitySquash-duo at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. Bogar and Rochell attend the City University of New York. Before heading off to Hobart, Jose reflected, I’m excited about meeting new people and using my boarding school skills and experience to aim for perfection at college. I’m nervous about starting all over again, but I’m also excited about learning, and I know that good things happen to you when you work hard.” Thank You, Hosts! Well over 100 families opened their homes to CitySquash over the past year, to host team members for tournaments, summer getaways, winter and spring regional tours, and more. While students went as far north as White Oaks, Canada and as far south as Washington, D.C., they mostly stayed with families in and around New York City, in squash hotbeds like Brooklyn, Chatham, Bronxville, Greenwich, New Canaan, and Rye. Special thanks go to three families that hosted annual functions for CitySquash. Icy and Scott Frantz had the Back-to-School BBQ, Cayre and Alexis Michas had the Boarding School Send-Off, and Karen and Roland Morris had the Year-End BBQ. A big thanks to all of our hosts! Giving Back to the Bronx, and Beyond Last year, as part of CitySquash’s community service program, the team’s Bronx-based students took to their own neighborhood, educating each other on the benefits of recycling, picking up street trash and volunteering at the local library. CitySquashers also participated with great enthusiasm in the AIDS Walk and Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research, both in Central Park. Congratulations to CitySquashers Karina Lazaro and Cristina Ortiz for raising over $200 each to support cancer research. Special thanks to all our mentors and supporters who joined us for our community service events last year! At the Terry Fox Run in October, mentors ran with their mentees. From left to right, Amirah Hollinshed, Rashna Patnaik, Assistant Program Director Supriya Balsekar, (back row) Lauren-Coape Arnold, Joe McGeehin and Harrison Sebring. In the front, from left to right, Karina Lazaro, Jairo Gomez, Omar Castelan, and Bryson Grant.

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National Urban Squash andEducation Association

Indeed, good things have been happening to Jose and his hardworking CitySquash teammates. The five graduates are expected to receive over half a million dollars financial aid in over the course of their college careers. Determined to direct all of its students toward college, CitySquash has continued to make its high school academic program more rigorous, including the launch of its College Prep Summer Session. The goal of this curriculum is to ensure that all students are academically prepared for the college application process and college itself. The inaugural summer program, which began in June 2009, consisted of an intensive six-week academic program for all rising seniors, which included SAT preparation sessions, college essay workshops, financial aid seminars, and general college application support. It also involved a four-week academic program for CitySquash’s high school underclassmen, including literacy development classes, SAT preparation sessions, and college awareness activities.

CitySquashers also got a first-hand look at higher education when they hit the road with High School Academic Director, Dora Lubin. On Thursday, June 2nd, team members piled into the CitySquash van for the first college trip of the summer: a visit to nearby Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, NY. Over the course of the summer, the students visited a wide range of colleges and universities, including Drexel, Haverford, George Washington, Georgetown, Wesleyan, Connecticut College, Boston University, and Tufts. These trips gave students a chance to determine which traits they hope to find, and which they would rather avoid, in their future college.

COLLEGE!A Publication of CitySquash

By TOm ThumB

In a year marked by especially competitive applicant pools and reduced financial aid programs, five more CitySquashers were accepted to boarding schools last spring. After months of studying for the SSAT, weeks of working on applications and hours of interviews, the CitySquash gang was jubilant when acceptance letters were mailed out in March.

Kingsley Amoako joined his older sister Doris at the Canterbury School in New Milford, CT, where CitySquash teammates Chris Fernandez and Freddy Hernandez lead him on the squash court. Not far down the road, Andrew Cadienhead now attends the Taft School in Watertown, CT. The first CitySquasher to enroll at Taft, Andrew got a head start on his first year by spending the summer at Taft Summer School, taking classes, playing squash and meeting future classmates.

Fernando Flores joined his older teammate Seetreeon Torres at the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, NY. When asked about leaving home for the first time,

Squashing the CompetitionBy haTTiE CarrOLL

Showing their prowess on the squash court, CitySquashers brought home more titles than ever in the 2008-2009 squash season. At the Urban Team Championships, held at the newly-opened S.L. Green StreetSquash Center in Harlem, CitySquash competed against eight other urban programs from around the country and won three of the event’s six draws. At the Urban Individual Nationals, hosted by Williams College, CitySquash won seven of the eight divisions. In all, CitySquashers have won 39 of the 63 Urban National events in which they have competed since 2003.

CitySquashers have also been competitive outside of the urban ranks. After winning a total of five non-urban tournaments in its first six years of operation, last season CitySquashers won four Gold

An Urban Youth Enrichment Program Winter 2009/2010

Fernando, said

“I’m looking forward to everything, but I’m really excited to play new sports, meet new people, get close to my teachers and be independent.”Also in Upstate New York is Felipe Pantle, CitySquash’s first student at the Millbrook School in Millbrook, NY. And Darrius Campbell crossed the Hudson to join CitySquash sophomore Manuela Perez at Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ.

In all, CitySquash has placed 29 students into Catholic, private day and boarding schools since its first class of students graduated from middle school in 2005. Taken together, these students will receive $3.8 million in financial aid from their respective schools over the course of their high school careers. Other high schools where CitySquashers have matriculated include Avon Old Farms, LaSalle, Loomis Chaffee, Salisbury, St. George’s, St. Paul’s, St. Pius V, Westover, and Williston Northampton.

more CitySquashers Off to Prep School!

tournaments, five Silver, four Bronze, and three New England Interscholas-tic Championships. Playing for St. George’s School, Jesse Pacheco won the final of the #2 draw of the A Flight, besting her Greenwich Academy opponent 12-10 in the fifth game. Chris Fernandez and Myriam Kelly, playing for Canterbury and Westover respectively, won the same draw in the B Flights. One team member, Jocelyn McKenzie, broke a CitySquash record by earning a national ranking of #9.

Ana Kelly, who plays #1 at Mercersburg Academy, won the GU17 Urban Nationals at Williams College in June.

Sophomore Cris Margaret Frias (left) and seniors Katrina Intal, Jesse Pacheco, and Jennifer Arboleda are among the CitySquashers who have paved the way for their younger teammates at boarding schools.

Edgardo Gonzalez graduated from the Salisbury School in June and is now a freshman on the varsity squash team at Hobart Williams and Smith.

inaugural Class heads to College By ruBin CarTEr

Seven years after Jose Alvarez, Bogar Avila, Edgardo Gonzalez, Rochell Hudson, and Tanesha Jackson attended the first-ever CitySquash tryout as wide-eyed M.S. 45 sixth graders, they became CitySquash’s first class of high school graduates and all five enrolled in college in the fall.

Tanesha, a graduate of The Hill School in Pottstown, PA, matriculated at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Edgardo and Jose, graduates of the Connecticut’s Canterbury and Salisbury Schools respectively, make up a CitySquash-duo at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. Bogar and Rochell attend the City University of New York. Before heading off to Hobart,

Jose reflected, “I’m excited about meeting new people and using my boarding school skills and experience to aim for perfection at college. I’m nervous about starting all over again, but I’m also excited about learning, and I know that good things happen to you when you work hard.”

Thank you, hosts!Well over 100 families opened their homes to CitySquash over the past year, to host team members for tournaments, summer getaways, winter and spring regional tours, and more. While students went as far north as White Oaks, Canada and as far south as Washington, D.C., they mostly stayed with families in and around New York City, in squash hotbeds like Brooklyn, Chatham, Bronxville, Greenwich, New Canaan, and Rye.

Special thanks go to three families that hosted annual functions for CitySquash. Icy and Scott Frantz had the Back-to-School BBQ, Cayre and Alexis Michas had the Boarding School Send-Off, and Karen and Roland Morris had the Year-End BBQ.

a big thanks to all of our hosts!

Giving Back to the Bronx, and BeyondLast year, as part of CitySquash’s community service program, the team’s Bronx-based students took to their own neighborhood, educating each other on the benefits of recycling, picking up street trash and volunteering at the local library. CitySquashers also participated with great enthusiasm in the AIDS Walk and Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research, both in Central Park. Congratulations to CitySquashers Karina Lazaro and Cristina Ortiz for raising over $200 each to support cancer research. Special thanks to all our mentors and supporters who joined us for our community service events last year!

At the Terry Fox Run in October, mentors ran with their mentees. From left to right, Amirah Hollinshed, Rashna Patnaik, Assistant Program Director Supriya Balsekar, (back row) Lauren-Coape Arnold, JoeMcGeehin and Harrison Sebring. In the front, from left to right, Karina Lazaro, Jairo Gomez, Omar Castelan, and Bryson Grant.

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The Bronx Boast Winter 2009/2010

CiTySquaSh mOmEnTS

The Bash a record Success!CitySquash’s annual fundraiser, The Bash, netted $400,000 for CitySquash. Many thanks to the University Club, the event committee members and all of the evening’s supporters!

CiTySquaShAn Urban Youth Enrichment Programwww.citysquash.org

Office Address602 East 187th StreetSuites 204 & 205Bronx, NY 10458718-220-7400 (t)718-220-7639 (f)

Mailing AddressP.O. Box 619Fordham StationBronx, NY 10458

BOard Of dirECTOrSSanford M. Schwartz, FounderTori DauphinotWilliam DouglassIcy FrantzTeri GalluccioMichael LuskinRobert C. Osborne Jr.Palmer PagePeer T. Pedersen Jr.Gillian SteelJeffrey P. WiegandTim Wyant

BOard Of adviSOrSAyaan Hirsi AliDiana Siebert BetteridgeJoseph M. McShaneRichard MillmanJonathon PowerJoseph SolantoCornel West

JuniOr BOardNick BarquinKelly Campelli Lauren Coape-ArnoldCourtney KnowltonTrey KuppinFranny McKayJustin MuzinichCourtney QuickJavier RodriguezJoshua SchwartzJeff Steiner

STaffTim Wyant Executive DirectorSupriya Balsekar Assistant Program DirectorDomenica Beauford Director of Elementary School AcademicsEsteban Espinal Assistant Director of SquashShandar Edwards Office ManagerKatie Greenbaum Director of Middle School AcademicsDora Lubin Director of High School Academics & College PrepBryan Patterson Director of SquashMaggie Roth Director of Placement

CiTySquaSh nEEdS yOu!TuTOr COaCh mEnTOr drivE hOST dOnaTETo learn about how you can help our team members thrive and our program grow, please contact CitySquash at 718-220-7400 or [email protected].

ESmEraLda mEJia CitySquash 6th grader

One of my most memorable moments with CitySquash was the Back to School Barbeque in Connecticut last September. My mom, sister, brother, and I went together.

When we arrived, I felt a little bit scared. This was my first big event with CitySquash, and I was nervous to meet all the other team members and staff. But as soon as I saw the pool, I forgot all about being nervous, and I rushed to get my bathing suit and change.

After swimming in the pool, I went for a walk with Amirah, one of my friends in CitySquash, and Coco Siebert, one of the wonderful CitySquash volunteers I met that summer – she is the coolest person in the universe! We walked over to the beach—I couldn’t believe there was a beach right next to the house – and we started collecting sea shells. While I was looking for sea shells, I started to stare at the beach. The waves looked so beautiful, gentle, and relaxing. I felt so lucky that I made the CitySquash team!

JOCELyn mCKEnziE CitySquash 8th grader

One of my favorite moments in CitySquash was going to Lucia’s apartment in Manhattan a few months ago with Melissa and Andreina to make cookies. Melissa and Andreina are two of my teammates. Lucia was our assistant squash coach for two years, and she was preparing to leave CitySquash to go to cooking school. So, Lucia and I made the cookies, and while we were preparing the dough, we were joking around a lot. Instead of feeling like a coach, she felt like a friend. When we put the cookies in the oven, Lucia and I went to check on Melissa and Andreina. When the cookies were done, we all ate the yummy treats and had a great time talking and laughing.

We were the first CitySquashers to be in Lucia’s house, and it was nice to spend time with her outside of the squash courts. It was also nice because we got a break from CitySquash’s strict nutrition policy. This experience reminded me that CitySquash is very much my family and I am grateful for that.

KinGSLEy amOaKO CitySquash 9th grader

One of the most memorable moments from my three years in CitySquash occurred at the Frantz’s house two Septembers ago. I was playing baseball with my peers. I was at bat. The pitch came right to me and I didn’t swing. I turned around to see where the ball was only to be greeted by a baseball in my teeth. My teeth started to bleed. I ran to my mom to tell her what happened. She brought me to Tim, our executive director, and Mrs. Galluccio, a CitySquash board member. Mrs. Galluccio said she would take me to the Emergency Room.

I was sad to leave the BBQ. But as we were heading out to the Emergency Room, Sophie, our academic director, decided that she wanted to come with me too. Seeing this, and seeing how many people were concerned about me, made me feel a lot better. I will never forget the kindness that Mrs.Galluccio, Sophie and everyone showed that day. I am glad to be in a program that cares so much about its students.

BrySOn GranT CitySquash 6th grader

One of the first sleep-away trips that I went on with CitySquash was at Sleepy Hollow. We went there to play squash with some kids from that club. All ages of CitySquashers went on the trip, from high schoolers to middle schoolers to elementary schoolers like me.

On the day of the match, I was a little nervous. As I watched the kid I was going to play against warm up, I was worried that he was a much better player than I was. I felt like I wouldn’t have a chance. I didn’t want to be embarrassed in front of everyone, especially the older CitySquash kids on my team.

I guess other people noticed that I was nervous. That’s probably why Anneudy, one of my high school teammates, talked to me after my first game. He pulled me to the side and told me that I should relax and not be so nervous. He said that all I needed to do was to try my best. After talking to him, I suddenly wasn’t so scared anymore. I still lost the match, but it was good to know that even the bigger kids on the team were there to support me.

CiTySquaSh faCTSmission: To enable at-risk youth from the Bronx to fulfill their academic, athletic and personal potential

Programs: Academics, squash, mentoring, community service, culture, travel, nutrition, employment training, high school placement and college prep

founder: Sanford M. Schwartz

founded: 2002

home Base: Fordham University

School facility Partners: Fordham University, Brunswick School, Concordia College, Greenwich Academy, Hackley School, Rye Country Day

Student Enrollment: 120 Elementary School: 50 Middle School: 35 High School: 30 College: 5

full-time Staff: 8

2009-2010 Program Budget: $920,000

Nine high schoolers and three staff members drove to Washington for the Presidential Inauguration in January. Back row, from left to right: Rochell Hudson, Willie Gonzalez, Prince Mensah, Frank Garcia, Josue Tiburcio, Executive Director Tim Wyant, Director of High School Academics Dora Lubin, Director of Placement Mag-gie Roth, and Anneudy Saldana. Kneeling are Benjamin Uwadinobi and Bogar Avila. Special thanks to Michael Newman for chaperoning and Jenny and Will Gaynor for hosting the entire group!

1. Freddy Hernandez shakes Mark Broach’s hand after an exhibition at The Bash. 2. CitySquash veterans Anneudy Saldana (left) and Prince Mensah after a hit. 3. Executive Director Tim Wyant with KatrinaIntal and Jesse Pacheco at Choate Rosemary-Hall after Jesse won the New England Interscholastics.4. Andreina Benedith (left) in a nail-biter against her Surf CitySquash (San Diego) opponent at the Urban Individual Nationals in June.

LETTERS

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accepted with a full scholarship to The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

I’ll admit that my first year was difficult – really difficult actually – but I found my footing, improved my grades and began to feel at home at Hill. My mom kept pushing me to get my grades up, and CitySquash supported me throughout, visiting me, checking in with my advisor and teachers, tutoring and coaching me in the summer, and helping me with the SAT and the college application process. I had to work really hard, but it paid off. As a senior, I was captain of the squash team and a prefect in my dorm. I graduated with a 3.3 GPA, and in August I started my freshman year at Wesleyan University.

Yeah, a lot has changed for me over the years. My mother used to be worried that I wouldn’t graduate from high school, let alone college. Now she talks about how much I’ve grown up and brags about me to others. I am grateful to her for all she’s done, and I’m grateful to CitySquash.

Tanesha joined CitySquash in sixth grade and is a freshman at Wesleyan University.

my CiTySquaSh STOryBy TanESha JaCKSOn

This might surprise you, but my story starts with chess. I began playing chess in kindergarten and soon after started to play competitively. After elemen-tary school, my mother started calling schools all around the Bronx searching for a middle school that had a competitive chess team. The school she found was M.S. 45. It was almost an hour away from my apartment by

CITYSQUASHCitySquasher of the year award Andrew Cadienhead

middle School academic Excellence award Laura Polanco

high School academic Excellence award Cristina Ortiz

most improved Student award Miguel Betances

Community Service award Anneudy Saldana

most valuable Player award Andreina Benedith

most improved Player award Sami Ogbit & Omar Castelan

Sportsmanship award Jeremy Carrasquillo

marty Silverman award for diligence Kingsley Amoako

rookie of the year William Pantle & Maria Serrano

mentors of the year Brannon Cook & Andres Mejia

volunteers of the year Rob Burton & Adam Milavec

The Bronx Boast OP-ED Winter 2009/2010

And our family had a wonderful weekend as well. We look forward to many more visits from our friends at CitySquash!

What made it so enjoyable for all of us on both sides of the Match? That’s the magic of it – it is all quite simple to achieve. We play squash, of course – our common interest. Queen of the Court works well for everybody. Then some tennis. Our visitors have never played tennis, but racquet skills transfer, and they learn new games: President, Skeleton, and more Queen of the Court. Lots of laughter, an easy way to mix age groups and friends.

Lunch is outdoors at the snack bar, and everybody gets to order what they want. There’s ice cream for dessert, of course.

Swimming is the favorite activity. Hours are spent floating, jumping, splashing – the best way to cool off on a hot day. The girls take swimming lessons. Some cannot swim yet, but they are athletic, and they try really hard, and therefore make amazing progress.

A barbecue for dinner, eating outside. Another family hosting CitySquash girls joins us – so jolly! Cue the fireflies. And S’mores for dessert. Is it possible this is a first? Yes, so let’s definitely make them again tomorrow. Bedtime. A little reading. A slumber party where everybody actually sleeps – we are all the best kind of tired.

Another day brings more swimming. Swinging on a swing. Making pancakes. Picking berries. Really simple, really good.

People tell us: It’s so nice of you to do this. We answer: You can’t imagine how much fun this is for us. Our visitors are adorable, polite, such good company. Like big sisters to our daughter. Our daughter says: This is the best day of my life!

Our visitors ask: When can we come back? We reply: Soon, please. We’ll miss you. We love you.

Jean Ervasti is CitySquash’s volunteer photographer and serves on CitySquash’s Summer Match Committee. Through Summer Match, which is modeled after the Fresh Air Fund, CitySquashers are sent away for a weekend or longer to stay with host families outside of the city. Twenty-nine families hosted CitySquashers in 2009.

EvEryBOdy WinS in a SummEr maTCh By JEan ErvaSTi

The weekend begins with a CitySquash child saying: I think I’m in Paradise! And ends with a note:

“Thank you for the best weekend of my life. Usually my summer weekends are dull and boring but, because of you, it was colorful and fun … I had such a good time I wanted the weekend to start all over again.”

2009 awards & TitlesNATIONAL URBAN SQUASH AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

INDIVIDUAL & TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPSu13 Girls Team Andreina Benedith, Melissa Garcia, Jocelyn McKenzie, Helen Avila, Mellba Hassani, Amirah Hollinshed

u13 Boys Teams Angel Maldonado, Miguel Betances, Michael Kelly, Fation Misku, Gabriel Garcia

u15 Boys Teams Andrew Candienhead, Kingsley, Amoako, Darrius Campbell, Felipe Pantle, Sami Ogbit

u13 Girls individuals Jocelyn McKenzie

u13 Boys individuals Michael Kelly

u15 Boys individuals Andrew Cadienhead

u17 Girls individuals Nina Kelly

u17 Boys individuals Chris Fernandez

u19 Girls individuals Jesse Pacheco

u19 Boys individuals Freddy Hernandez

CiTySquaSh rEadS!By SOPhiE GOrLin

CitySquash achieved record-breaking participation at last spring’s CitySquash Reads, our third annual celebration of reading, with over 100 people attending. For the past three years, CitySquashers have been convening with their families, mentors, volunteers and the entire program staff every spring for an afternoon of book discussion, activities and celebration. The event represents the culmination of a month of students, parents, siblings and mentors all reading the same book together.

This year’s CitySquash Reads book was Coraline by Neil Gaiman, aptly timed to coincide with the release of the Pixar movie. The discussion and celebration took place on a weekend in early May, in the elegant Faculty Lounge of Fordham University. CitySquash Reads participants munched on bagels (plain) and “other bagels” (cinnamon raisin), muffins (corn) and “other muffins”

Thank you and WelcomeCitySquash gratefully acknowledges those employees who left CitySquash this past year.

For Assistant Squash Director Lucia Cantarini, CitySquash was family. She coached with hugs and smiles, and always with passion. Though sad to see her go, we are thrilled that she remains involved with CitySquash as a regular volunteer.

With her passion for literature and learning, Director of Middle School Academics Sophie Gorlin deftly guided Book Clubs, tutored for the SSAT and ran academic sessions. We miss Sophie’s thoughtful mind and generous spirit. Sophie is spend-ing the year in the Czech Republic on a Fulbright Grant.

Allison LaFave spent the summer at CitySquash through the Harvard Center for Public Interest Careers’ internship program. Elizabeth Weintraub and Michael Shrubb, captains of the women’s and men’s squash teams at Dartmouth, interned at CitySquash as well. Special thanks to them, our volunteer intern Laura

Abrams, and all of our summer counselors and volunteers!

CitySquash warmly welcomes to the staff Katie Greenbaum, Domenica Beauford and Esteban Espinal. A 2006 graduate of the University of Washington at St. Louis, Katie spent a year teaching at the Citizens School in Boston and last summer earned an MA from Teachers College at Columbia University. A native of Long Island, Domenica graduated from Fordham University and is the Director of Elementary School Academics. Esteban came to CitySquash from Club @ 800, where the Colombian native taught squash for two years.

bus and train, and my mom had to work hard to get me in there, but she succeeded. I was all set to keep playing chess.

A week into the school year, however, my teacher announced that we would have a presentation about a new program called CitySquash. While I had never heard of squash before, the program sounded interesting and I wanted to try out.

When I told my mother I was thinking about quitting chess, she was not happy at all. She warned that I would be giving up a great opportunity and sacrificing all that I had learned about chess. It was not until someone from CitySquash called my house and gave my mother an overview of the program and its academic requirements that my mother gave her approval. Fortunately for me, I was one of sixteen sixth graders who made the team that fall. I was ecstatic!

For starters, I loved playing squash. But CitySquash also made me a better student. The afternoon academic sessions helped me concentrate on my assignments, and my grades improved from the 70’s in sixth grade to the 90’s in eighth grade. When it came time to think about high school, CitySquash invited me to apply to boarding schools. I was

(blueberry) and bananas and “other bananas” (apples) as they mingled before the discussion began. Once the room filled up, we broke off into discussion groups led by volunteers who generously (and some might add bravely) offered to play the teachers for the afternoon’s discussion. We explored “the grass is always greener” phenomenon in terms of homes and family life, first thinking about what we wished to change about our families and then remembering what we missed about our home when we were away. “I wish my mom didn’t work so much,” one of our fourth graders said. “I wish the same,” his mom echoed. “I wish we had a bigger apartment,” a sixth grader shared. “I wish my son would keep the apartment clean,” his mother responded.

Perhaps the most fun part of the afternoon was the final activity, in which we demonstrated our wishes and then our appreciation of home in the form of skits. The audience roared with laughter as the first group dramatized a day at CitySquash, with staff members yelling at students to get their grades up and

making them run court sprints. But CitySquash staff members smiled appreciatively when the group dramatized an “other CitySquash” in which students failed out of school and became so out of shape that they could no longer compete in squash matches.

The afternoon ended on a positive note: just as Coraline appreciates her family after her sojourn in the other world, members of the CitySquash family left with a greater appreciation of their families, their homes and, last but not least, reading.

Sophie Gorlin joined CitySquash in 2007 as the Director of Middle School Academics. She left CitySquash in September to study in the Czech Republic on a Fulbright grant. Below Sophie celebrates with Andrew Cadienhead (left) and Felipe Pantle after their middle school graduation.

Tanesha at her graduation from The Hill School in Pottstown, PA, with Director of College Prep Dora Lubin.

5th graders Katera White (left) and Maria Serrano (right) spent a lot of time with Lark Ervasti (center) and her family over the summer.

Top: Volunteer Kishore Vasnani and Director of Squash Bryan Patterson Bottom: Lucia Cantarini with then 5th grader Karina Lazaro at the Urban Team Nationals in January 2009.

1. Office Manager Shandar Edwards with 5th grader Maria Serrano 2. Mentor Chris O’Connell and Benjamin Uwadinobi, a 10th grader 3. Mentor and Junior Board member Courtney Quick with 8th grader Melissa Garcia 4. Mentor Preston Comey and 7th grader William Pantle

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We gratefully acknowledge the many individuals who donated to CitySquash in memory of Carl Stanford Forsythe III.

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