SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. – Following a third-place showing at the Liberty League Championships, the Vassar women's squash team is set to compete in the final Seven Sisters Championships on Saturday. Mount Holyoke serves as the host school and Smith and Wellesley will also be competing.
Vassar opens against Wellesley at 12 p.m. and then will face Smith or Mount Holyoke at 2:30 p.m. or 4 p.m. depending on the results. The Brewers finished as the Seven Sisters runner-ups in 2018.Â
Junior
Sydney Nemphos (Baltimore, MD) expected to play the No. 1 position and tallied a win against Bard last weekend. Freshman No. 2
Claire Coss (Penn Valley, PA) is second on the team with eight wins after playing the first spot in the fall semester. At the three,
Julia Pollak (San Francisco, CA) leads Vassar with 11 wins. She has found the most success at the third spot, taking six victories.
No.4
Amanda Watson (Falmouth, ME) has played the third, fourth and fifth spots, and amassed nine wins. Looking at the fifth position, sophomore
Alexa Elias (New York, NY) sits with eight wins this season. Senior
Allegra von Hirschberg (Mbabane, Swaziland) takes the sixth position.
Nicole Pihlstrom (Fort Collins, CO) mainly played the No. 7, but has bounced around to tally 10 victories.
The Vassar women travel to Hartford, CT next for the CSA Nationals on Feb. 23-24.
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