NEW YORK, N.Y. – It is officially tournament time for the Harvard men's and women's squash programs, who are set to compete at the CSA Individual National Championships this weekend. The Crimson will send 10 student-athletes into the tournaments to compete for the Pool Trophy and Ramsay Cup while representing the program. 54 women and men will compete in the overall bracket for the right to be named the CSA Individual National Champion.
 

Men's Matchups

Pool Trophy

[9-12] David Costales vs.  Gilberto Noe Aceves Moreno (ROCHESTER) – 2:30 PM, Court 1
[13-16] Denis Gilevskiy vs. Hamza Wessam (COLBY) – 3:20 PM, Court 7
[13-16] Omar Azzam vs. Yuri Pollak Pelbart (DREXEL) – 2:30 PM, Court 4
[17-20] Christian Capella vs.  Sharan Punjabi (F&M) – 3:20 PM, Court 3
Maddox Moxham vs. [29-32] Franklyn Smith (Columbia) – 3:20 PM, Court 4
 

Women's Matchups

Ramsay Cup

Round 1
[3] Caroline Fouts – BYE
[4] Lucie Stefanoni – BYE
[6] Saran Nghiem - BYE
[21-24] Ocean Ma vs. Meha Shah (YALE) – 1:40 PM, Court 2
[25-28] Ona Blasco Puig vs. Riya Shankaran (STANFORD) – 12:00 PM, Court 6
 
Round 2
[3] Caroline Fouts vs. N. Sim (Colby)/[29-32] A. Ali (Cornell) – 6:00 PM, Court 2
[4] Lucie Stefanoni vs. [29-32] M. Min (UVA)/ N. Khalifa (COLUMBIA) – 5:00 PM, Court 2
[6] Saran Nghiem vs. [25-28] E. Bartley (DREXEL)/ A. Stoddard (PENN) - 6:00 PM, Court 5
 

What to Know

• Harvard will have 10 student-athletes competing in the field, 5 men's and women's athletes in each draw.
• The winners of every first-round matchup will move on to compete in the main National Championship draw, while those who are defeated will move on to compete in four divisional brackets.
• Nghiem, the 2023 CSA Individual National Champion, received a first-round bye into the Ramsay Cup main draw. This is the senior captain's fourth time competing in the Ramsay Cup draw, having won the tournament in 2024 and advance to the quarterfinals in 2023 and 2025
• Fouts and Stefanoni – who both have Ramsay Cup Experience – also received first-round byes to the Ramsay Cup and will compete as the third and fourth seeded athletes, respectively.
• Stefanoni won a divisional championship in 2024 and made it to the Round of 16 of the Ramsay Cup draw in 2025. Fouts also competed in the Ramsay Cup last season, moving on to the quarterfinals.
• Ma and Blasco Puig will attempt to make their first appearance in the Ramsay Cup Main Draw. Ma captured a divisional championship at the 2025 Individual National Tournament.
• Costales and Gilevskiy each competed in the Pool Trophy Main draw last season, advancing to the round of 16. Costales advanced to the quarterfinals in his sophomore season.
• This will be the first Individual National tournament for Azzam, Capella and Moxham.

 

Follow Along

You can follow the Crimson's progress through the tournament on GoCrimson.com. The tournament will be live streamed on YouTube via the CSA's Channel (@CollegeSquash). Results will be updated on ClubLocker throughout the day and fans can alos follow on social media (@HarvardSquash).