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2017-18 Men's Squash

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Anders Larson

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Highschool Saint Ann's School

Biography

2017-18:  Team Captain ... Competed in one varsity match, losing 0-3 to top ranked Trinity ... Played in two exhibition matches against Williams and Brown winning both. 

2016-17:
(Quakers finished seventh in the Potter Cup): Tallied a 6-10 record (2-5, Ivy League) in the middle of Penn’s lineup (positions 4-7) … Put together Ivy wins over Columbia and Dartmouth … Registered three-straight wins to begin the season.

2015-16: Helped Penn to the CSA Potter Cup, finishing fifth in the country, the team’s highest finish since 2006-07 … Went 5-10 overall, including 2-3 in Ivy League matches … Competed in the No. 1-4 positions … Went 3-5 in the top spot … Ivy wins came over Harvard and Princeton … Went 1-2 at the CSA Potter Cup, defeating Harvard in the fifth-place match … Went 0-1 at the CSA Individuals in the Molloy Division … Finished the season ranked No. 65 in the CSA Rankings.

2014-15: Helped lead Penn to the CSA Potter Cup, finishing seventh in the country, the team’s highest finish since 2008-09 … Went 11-10 overall, including a 2-4 Ivy League record … Competed at the No. 4-5 positions … Ivy wins were against Cornell and Harvard … Went 3-2 in the CSA Individual Molloy Cup, falling to Rochester’s Michelangelo Bertocchi in the consolation finals … Finished the season ranked at No. 50 in the CSA Individual Rankings.

High School: In 2012, won the U-17 Boys National Championship … That same year, finished as a semi-finalist in the U-17 United State Open … Was the 2014 West Coast JCT champion … Former nationally ranked chess player, who finished in third place in the U.S. Chess National Championships … Served as concertmaster for the Saint Ann’s Orchestra. 

Personal: Son of Beatrix and Joseph Larson ... Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business. 

Anders Larson Career
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ex Over. Ivy
2014-15      5-6  3-2         11-10 2-4 
2015-16  3-5    1-4  1-1           5-10  2-3 
2016-17        0-5 2-4  1-0  3-1        6-10  2-5 
2017-18              0-1        0-1  
Career 3-5     1-4  6-12  5-6 1-0  3-12       22-31 6-12

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

  • 2015-16Sophomore

  • 2016-17Junior

  • 2017-18Senior