{"id":112178,"date":"2026-02-12T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112178\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:52:07","slug":"mens-and-womens-squash-host-harvard-dartmouth-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112178\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Squash Host Harvard, Dartmouth This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 PHILADELPHIA \u2013 The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s squash teams will host Harvard on Saturday and Dartmouth on Sunday at the Penn Squash Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe men&#8217;s team is coming off a win against No. 8 Princeton on Saturday, upping their season record to 10-2. The women&#8217;s team enters the weekend following their first loss of the year, against Princeton, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n#3 Penn vs. #2 Harvard<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSaturday, Feb. 14, 2026 | 12:00 p.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPenn Squash Center <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/clublocker.com\/leagues\/match\/228617\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Stats<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n#3 Penn vs. #9 Dartmouth<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSunday, Feb. 15, 2026 | 12:00 p.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPenn Squash Center<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/clublocker.com\/leagues\/match\/228796\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Stats<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n#2 Penn vs. #1 Harvard<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSaturday, Feb. 14, 2026 | 12:00 p.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPenn Squash Center<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/clublocker.com\/leagues\/match\/228558\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Stats<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n#2 Penn vs. #11 Dartmouth<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSunday, Feb. 14, 2026 | 12:00 p.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPenn Squash Center<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/clublocker.com\/leagues\/match\/228559\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Stats<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quaker Notemeal<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe men&#8217;s team reached double digit wins in the last match against Princeton, becoming the first team in the CSA to do so. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/omar-hafez\/25282\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25282\" target=\"_blank\">Omar Hafez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-squash\/roster\/salman-khalil\/25283\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25283\" target=\"_blank\">Salman Khalil<\/a> added wins in the first and second positions against the Tigers, Hafez leads the team with 15 total wins this season. Penn is tied with Yale for second place in the Ivy League standings, looking to knock off top seeded Harvard on Saturday.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe women&#8217;s team suffered its first loss of the season to the Tigers on Saturday, dropping to 11-1 on the season. However, the team did still clinch an Ivy League Tournament berth with the results of Saturday&#8217;s matches. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-squash\/roster\/malak-khafagy\/24915\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24915\" target=\"_blank\">Malak Khafagy<\/a> had perhaps the most impressive win for the Quakers, defeating CSA Individual champion Zeina Zein in the one spot.<\/p>\n<p>Previewing the Crimson<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Harvard men&#8217;s team is ranked No. 2 in the CSA team rankings with a 7-1 record. Omar Azzam leads the Crimson with an 8-0 individual record, ranking seventh in the CSA player standings. The Crimson&#8217;s only loss this season came from No. 1 Trinity. Harvard leads the Ivy League standings with a 4-0 conference record.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Harvard women&#8217;s team is the No. 1 ranked team in the CSA with a 7-0 undefeated record. Six players have an undefeated record for the Crimson including CSA Individual Championships finalist Caroline Fouts. Fouts is the ninth ranked player in the CSA with an 7-0 record. The Crimson have swept four out of seven opponents this season, including Yale last time out. Harvard sits atop the Ivy League standings with a 4-0 conference record, tied with Princeton.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPreviewing the Big Green<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Dartmouth men&#8217;s team is ranked ninth in the CSA with a 7-5 record. Callan Venkatesan leads the team with 9-2 record, ranking as No. 72 in the CSA player standings. The Big Green is fifth place in the Ivy League standings with a 1-3 conference record. Dartmouth defeated Tufts in their last match, 7-2.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Dartmouth women&#8217;s team is ranked No. 11 in the CSA team standings with a 6-6 record. Callie Worth and Ziyi Liu lead the team with six wins each. The Big Green are tied with Yale for fourth place in the Ivy League standings with a 1-3 conference record. Dartmouth defeated Tufts in their last match, 5-4.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; PHILADELPHIA \u2013 The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s squash teams will host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-112178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}