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2018-19 Men's Squash

Karim Hussein

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Cairo, Egypt
  • Highschool Avon Old Farms School

Biography

2018-19: CSA Scholar-Athlete ... Helped Penn to its first ever No. 1 CSA rankings ... Helped Penn to a third-place finish in the Potter Cup - its best in program history ... Finished with a career-best 12-5 record ... Went 4-3 during Ivy League matches ... Began season by winning first nine matches.

2017-18: Was a staple in the middle of the Quakers' line-up ... Posted 10-7 overall record and 5-2 in the Ivy League at the five slot ... Helped lead Penn to No. 7 in the national rankings and an appearance in the Potter Cup ... Clinched match against No. 9 Yale (1/13) to lead the Quakers to a win over the Bulldogs for the first time since 1995 ... Finished with career high 10 wins in a season.

2016-17: Recorded a 6-7 mark in Penn’s top four slots, including a 4-1 mark in the Ivy League … Tallied Penn’s lone win over Harvard (No. 2) on Jan. 14 … Other conference triumphs came over Columbia, Cornell and Yale (Potter Cup).

2015-16: Helped Penn to the College Squash Association (CSA) Potter Cup, finishing fifth in the country, the team’s highest finish since 2006-07 … Went 9-7 overall, including 5-2 in Ivy League matches … Competed in the No. 2-4 positions … Ivy wins came over Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Brown, and Cornell … Went 0-2 at the CSA Potter Cup … Went 2-1 at the CSA Individuals in the Molloy Division, falling in the semifinal round … Finished the season ranked No. 29 in the CSA individual Rankings.

High School: Lettered two years in squash … Served as a team captain … Helped lead Avon Old Farms School to the 2014 squash national championship … In 2015, helped lead his team to a third place finish in New England and at the national championships … Named team’s Most Valuable Player in 2015.

Karim Hussein Career
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ex Over. Ivy
2015-16    4-2 2-2 3-3              9-7 5-2
2016-17 1-0   2-5  1-1  2-1              6-7 3-1
2017-18    0-1    10-5  0-1         10-7 5-2
2018-19          4-0 8-5           12-5  4-3 
Career 1-0 6-7  3-4  5-4   14-5  8-6         37-26 17-8

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Freshman

  • 2016-17Sophomore

  • 2017-18Junior

  • 2018-19Senior