{"id":129548,"date":"2026-03-04T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:45:08","slug":"womens-squash-begins-2026-howe-cup-campaign-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129548\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Squash Begins 2026 Howe Cup Campaign Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 PHILADELPHIA \u2013 The University of Pennsylvania women&#8217;s squash team will look to win its first Howe Cup championship since the 1999-2000 season, this weekend at the CSA National Team Championships.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe No. 2 seeded Quakers have been granted a first round bye on Thursday and will take on the winner of No. 7 Cornell and No. 10 Amherst.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe match will begin at 3 p.m. on Friday, March 6th at the Arlen Specter Squash Center in Philadelphia.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n2026 Howe Cup \u2013 Quarterfinals<br \/>\n#2 Penn (14-2) vs. #7 Cornell (7-7)\/ #10 Amherst (15-3)<br \/>\nFriday, March 6, 2026 | 3 p.m.<br \/>\nArlen Specter Squash Center | Philadelphia, Pa.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/clublocker.com\/tournaments\/18569\/draws?divisionId=304&amp;sectionId=38&amp;viewMode=detailed&amp;offset=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Scoring<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nQuaker Notemeal<br \/>\nThe Quakers enter the tournament after an Ivy League Tournament finals appearance. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-squash\/roster\/sohaila-ismail\/24914\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24914\" target=\"_blank\">Sohaila Ismail<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-squash\/roster\/allie-stoddard\/24918\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24918\" target=\"_blank\">Allie Stoddard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-squash\/roster\/hailey-wong\/24923\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24923\" target=\"_blank\">Hailey Wong<\/a> were named to the All-Tournament team. Penn holds a 14-2 record and are currently ranked as the No. 2 team in the CSA team rankings.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPreviewing the Big Red <br \/>\nThe Big Red enter the weekend after a semifinals loss to No. 1 Princeton in the Ivy League Tournament. The Quakers swept the Big Red, 9-0, in the last matchup on January 31st in Ithaca. Some of Cornell&#8217;s most impressive wins this season include a 9-0 sweep over No. 10 Tufts, a 5-4 win over No. 9 Drexel and a 6-3 victory over No. 8 Yale.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPreviewing the Mammoths<br \/>\nThe Mammoths were swept by Drexel in their last match on February 21st and fell to Tufts, 5-4, on February 15th. Before that, the Mammoths began the season with a 15-1 record as they were ranked as the No. 2 seed in the NESAC Women&#8217;s Squash Championships, the highest in program history. The last time the Quakers and Mammoths squared off was during the 2009-10 season, where Penn won, 9-0.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nInformation about the 2025 CSA National Team Championship, including the tournament bracket, can be found on the tournament website linked <a href=\"https:\/\/csasquash.com\/2026-national-team-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the latest on Penn Squash, follow @PennSquash on X and Instagram, and on the web at PennAthletics.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; PHILADELPHIA \u2013 The University of Pennsylvania women&#8217;s squash team will look to win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-129548","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\/129548","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=129548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}