Tuesday, November 26, 2013

To Claim or Not to Claim a National Championship

Bates College and Bowdoin College are approximately half an hour from one another in southern Maine.

Both are members of the NESCAC (New England Small College Athletic Conference).

Both have competitive squash programs.

Both have won three Kurtz Cup Championships (which means they finished 9th in the final Women's College Squash Association standings).

Only one called it a national championship.


Women’s teams ranked ninth through sixteenth compete for the Kurtz Cup, a permanent trophy presented to the winners of the B division of the National Team Championships.
The Kurtz Cup is named for Aggie Bixler Kurtz. While working under Betty Richey at Vassar, Kurtz organized the first women’s national intercollegiate individual tournament, which was held at Wellesley in 1965. Kurtz went on to start a women’s squash team at Dartmouth in 1972 and was a long-time contributor to the development of the College Squash Association and one of its predecessors, the United States Women’s Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association. Kurtz was inducted into the College Squash Hall of Fame in 1996 and the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame in 2005. She received the College Squash Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
KURTZ CUP WINNER (COACH):
- See more at: http://collegesquashassociation.com/champions/womens-championships/kurtz-cup/#sthash.IUnyKlXT.dpuf

Women’s teams ranked ninth through sixteenth compete for the Kurtz Cup, a permanent trophy presented to the winners of the B division of the National Team Championships.
The Kurtz Cup is named for Aggie Bixler Kurtz. While working under Betty Richey at Vassar, Kurtz organized the first women’s national intercollegiate individual tournament, which was held at Wellesley in 1965. Kurtz went on to start a women’s squash team at Dartmouth in 1972 and was a long-time contributor to the development of the College Squash Association and one of its predecessors, the United States Women’s Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association. Kurtz was inducted into the College Squash Hall of Fame in 1996 and the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame in 2005. She received the College Squash Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
KURTZ CUP WINNER (COACH):
- See more at: http://collegesquashassociation.com/champions/womens-championships/kurtz-cup/#sthash.IUnyKlXT.dpuf
Women’s teams ranked ninth through sixteenth compete for the Kurtz Cup, a permanent trophy presented to the winners of the B division of the National Team Championships.
The Kurtz Cup is named for Aggie Bixler Kurtz. While working under Betty Richey at Vassar, Kurtz organized the first women’s national intercollegiate individual tournament, which was held at Wellesley in 1965. Kurtz went on to start a women’s squash team at Dartmouth in 1972 and was a long-time contributor to the development of the College Squash Association and one of its predecessors, the United States Women’s Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association. Kurtz was inducted into the College Squash Hall of Fame in 1996 and the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame in 2005. She received the College Squash Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
KURTZ CUP WINNER (COACH):
- See more at: http://collegesquashassociation.com/champions/womens-championships/kurtz-cup/#sthash.IUnyKlXT.dpuf
Women’s teams ranked ninth through sixteenth compete for the Kurtz Cup, a permanent trophy presented to the winners of the B division of the National Team Championships.
The Kurtz Cup is named for Aggie Bixler Kurtz. While working under Betty Richey at Vassar, Kurtz organized the first women’s national intercollegiate individual tournament, which was held at Wellesley in 1965. Kurtz went on to start a women’s squash team at Dartmouth in 1972 and was a long-time contributor to the development of the College Squash Association and one of its predecessors, the United States Women’s Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association. Kurtz was inducted into the College Squash Hall of Fame in 1996 and the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame in 2005. She received the College Squash Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
KURTZ CUP WINNER (COACH):
- See more at: http://collegesquashassociation.com/champions/womens-championships/kurtz-cup/#sthash.IUnyKlXT.dpuf
Women’s teams ranked ninth through sixteenth compete for the Kurtz Cup, a permanent trophy presented to the winners of the B division of the National Team Championships.
The Kurtz Cup is named for Aggie Bixler Kurtz. While working under Betty Richey at Vassar, Kurtz organized the first women’s national intercollegiate individual tournament, which was held at Wellesley in 1965. Kurtz went on to start a women’s squash team at Dartmouth in 1972 and was a long-time contributor to the development of the College Squash Association and one of its predecessors, the United States Women’s Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association. Kurtz was inducted into the College Squash Hall of Fame in 1996 and the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame in 2005. She received the College Squash Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
KURTZ CUP WINNER (COACH):
- See more at: http://collegesquashassociation.com/champions/womens-championships/kurtz-cup/#sthash.IUnyKlXT.dpuf
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 27, 2013 at 1:01 PM

    There can only be one national champion for the men and one national champion for the women. plain and simple.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 27, 2013 at 1:46 PM

    This is the second school reported to have falsely claimed a squash national championship in squash. Don't institutions of higher learning have an obligation to truth?

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    1. AnonymousNovember 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM

      I must be missing something...each of the divisions represents a group of 8 schools competing for the national championship in their DIVISION...thus Bowdoin is perfectly within their right to call the Kurtz Cup a national championship. The same scenario is true for the US Squash High School and Middle School National Championships- this is a ridiculous blog post that does not deserve one more ounce of anyone's attention.

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    2. AnonymousNovember 27, 2013 at 10:59 PM

      The blog post only highlighted that one school claimed a national championship for winning the same cup that another school didn't view as a national championship. Unless I read it wrong, it didn't make any judgement.

      But the first post was correct: "There can only be one national champion for the men and one national champion for the women. plain and simple." . . . and it was never Bowdoin

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2014 at 8:27 PM

    Don't say I didn't warn you Joe. Get ready:)

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