2017-18 Men's Squash Roster
Roster
McClain Awalt
- Class:
- First Year
- Hometown:
- Greenwich, Conn.
- Previous School:
- Avon Old Farms School
- Major:
- Financial Economics
FIRST-YEAR (2017-18):ย Member of 2018 Ivy League Championship team.. went 5-9 in his first regular season playing primarily in the No. 9 position...picked up win over St. Lawrence's No. 9 Aran Thawani at CSA Team Championships on Feb. 25...helped Columbia secure outright Ivy title with win over Princeton's No. 9 Shehab Thabet on Feb. 9
HIGH SCHOOL
2017 graduate of Avon Old Farms School in Avon, CT... 4-year varsity letterer for the squash teamโฆ Team captain from 2016-2017โฆ Team was Founderโs League champions in 2016 and 2017โฆ Placed 3rd at the 2017 US High School Squash Nationalsโฆ 2nd place finish (both individual and team) at the 2017 New England Interscholastic Championshipsโฆ Connecticut Regional champion in the U-19 divisionโฆ Was a Top-20 ranked player in the BU-17 divisionโฆ 2014 MIAA Individual champion as a freshman (went undefeated)โฆ 2014 MIAA Team championsโฆ 2014 National Skills Level Menโs 4.5 championโฆ 2016 and 2017 Avon Old Farms Gordon Merit Scholarโฆ 2016 Avon Old Farms Latin Honors Award recipientโฆ Summa Cum Laude National Latin Exam gold medalistโฆ Deanโs List all four yearsโฆ 4-time US Squash Scholar Athlete Award recipient.
PERSONAL
Born May 11, 1998 in Baltimore, MD, but considers Greenwich, CT his hometownโฆ Goes by โMacโโฆ ย Plans to major in Financial Economics and work on Wall Street somedayโฆ Hopes to win an Ivy League and National title at Columbiaโฆ Johnathan Quick, all-star goalie for the NHLโs Los Angeles Kings went to his high schoolโฆ He created the non-profit organization Squash Surfaces for African Purposes.
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