Why does squash have trouble retaining women in the game? The answer is simple: people. People=leagues=retention.

I recently got an email from someone I haven’t met. I mentioned I couldn’t attend a dinner because of a squash committment and this is the verbatim, unsolicited response:

(I still have an old squash racquet sitting in my basement. I used to play at the downtown Y when I lived in Trolley Square. I took up squash as the courts were less crowded then the racquetball courts. Then I started doing a lot of travel for work and it got too hard to schedule my weekly league match so I dropped out and once I no longer did a league I slowly stopped playing as the league was where I met the people to play with. Then I had kids…..)