College squash teams

[Anonymous]

I was surprised to find out my DS’s college has a squash team. We’re from the Midwest, he attended private high school with rowing, and I don’t know anyone under 50 who plays squash. Is it a sport just for people at boarding schools who come from money?

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not! Lots of kids from all socioeconomic levels play squash. In Baltimore there is a squash program geared towards lower socioeconomic kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not! Lots of kids from all socioeconomic levels play squash. In Baltimore there is a squash program geared towards lower socioeconomic kids.

I live in Baltimore and knew a few kids in this program. They also have a similar program for rowing. Squash is pretty big in the private schools here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not! Lots of kids from all socioeconomic levels play squash. In Baltimore there is a squash program geared towards lower socioeconomic kids.

Um. This is an exception that proves the rule situation.

It's a niche sport that people make their kids specialize in to get into elite colleges.

[Anonymous]

Article about niche sports for the UMC, and describes the squash scene in CT.
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/files/20201101_nichesports.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Article about niche sports for the UMC, and describes the squash scene in CT.
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/files/20201101_nichesports.pdf

On that note, there's an episode of Little America on Apple TV that features a Latina girl from an urban setting succeeding in squash and it being a rare occurrence: https://ussquash.org/2020/01/the-rocky-of-squash-little-america/

[Anonymous]

I can do you one better. I was flipping through the Vassar catalogue and they have a club polo team that competes against other schools. And yes, I polo with horses, not water polo.

[Anonymous]

Polo? What colleges compete in polo? Is that a recruitment sport? That is nuts.

[Anonymous]

Polo with horses?! I'd be very interested to know which colleges have this.

[Anonymous]

There are only 2 colleges where Polo is a Varsity sport: Cornell and Roger Williams. The rest are club sports or student organizations. Source: US Polo Assoc.

[Anonymous]

The field hockey and lacrosse teams are no different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The field hockey and lacrosse teams are no different.

A lot of public schools nationally have lacrosse and regionally a lot of publics have field hockey

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The field hockey and lacrosse teams are no different.

Incredibly different. Where I live, there have been field hockey and lacrosse teams, for generations, in school districts at all income levels.

This is not even close to the same thing as an individual, niche sport, often played outside of school and favored by well to do families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The field hockey and lacrosse teams are no different.

Incredibly different. Where I live, there have been field hockey and lacrosse teams, for generations, in school districts at all income levels.

This is not even close to the same thing as an individual, niche sport, often played outside of school and favored by well to do families.

I was talking about at the college level, and where I live they’re rich kid sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The field hockey and lacrosse teams are no different.

Incredibly different. Where I live, there have been field hockey and lacrosse teams, for generations, in school districts at all income levels.

This is not even close to the same thing as an individual, niche sport, often played outside of school and favored by well to do families.

I was talking about at the college level, and where I live they’re rich kid sports.

This is true of most non-revenue sports, gymnastics, swim, volleyball, even baseball. Basically any sport that is pay to play at the level where recruitment occurs is going to be a rich kid sport