Squash

“You don’t play squash to get fit, you get fit to play squash”
My squash club has this quote on the wall, I agree!

I am passionate about squash, I enjoy it a lot, gives me a great workout and at the same time it has a great mentality aspect to it. I love how quick it is, and how much energy you need to put into the shots because of its small rubber ball. Above all, it also gives me this really nice connection to my heritage country. I am a very proud Egyptian-American. And any squash courts I go to anywhere in the world, I meet Egyptians!

I wish it had more exposure in the US, and I think it should be an olympic sport… Along with my friends, I am trying to make it a varsity sport at my High School. We actually formed a team last year and we competed in a league during the winter season, and then we went on to the National Interscholastic Championship at the Arlen Specter Center in Philadelphia!!