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2024-25 Men's Squash Roster

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Nick Spizzirri

  • Height 6-3
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Greenwich, Conn.
  • Highschool Brunswick School

Biography

2024-25: First-team CSA All-America ... All-Ivy ... CSA Scholar Athlete ... Potter Cup Champion ... Competed in 16 matches across team and individual competition this season (14-2 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) ... One of three Quakers to make it into the top eight athletes in the Pool Trophy at the CSA Individual Championships ... Defeated five other CSA 2024-25 All-Americans across individual and team competition: Yale’s Arav Bhagwati (1/12, 3/9), Cornell’s Aaron Liang (1/25), Harvard’s Denis Gilevskiy (2/1), Princeton’s Avi Agarwal (2/9), and Trinity’s Benedek Takacs (3/8) ... Graduates with the third-most wins in program history (58).

2023-24: First Team CSA All-America … All-Ivy  … Academic All-Ivy … Potter Cup Champion ... Served as team captain ... Finished team competition 11-2, adding a pair of victories during CSA individuals (Pool Trophy) … Went a perfect 6-0 in Ivy League play … Rattled off eight straight 3-0 victories including defeating Second Team CSA All-American of Trinity Joachim Chuah (2/4) … Posted a 3-1 victory over First Team CSA All-American and All-Ivy honoree Thomas Rosini of Princeton (2/10) … Played all three Potter Cup matches at No. 1 earning a 3-1 win over First Team CSA All-American Karim Elbarbary of Princeton in the Potter Cup semifinal (3/2) … Added victories over Princeton’s Rosini in the Round of 16 (3/8) and Harvard’s First Team CSA All-American and All-Ivy honoree David Costales during the Pool Trophy semifinal (3/8).

2022-23: First Team CSA All-America … First Team All-Ivy … Finished team competition a perfect 15-0, adding another victory during CSA Individuals … Opened season with a rally from 0-2 down for five-game win over Drexel’s Haris Qasim (11/13) … Posted 3-0 win over first-team All-Ivy selection Maxwell Orr of Yale (1/28) … Rallied from 0-2 down for five-game win over Trinity’s Abdelrahman Nassar at Potter Cup semifinal (2/25) … Posted second 3-0 win over Yale’s Orr in Potter Cup third place match (2/26) … Defeated first-team All-Ivy Daelum Mawji of Princeton in Pool Trophy Round of 16 match (3/3).

2021-22: Competed in 17 of 19 varsity matches across the No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 spots in the lineup, finishing team competition with 12-5 record … Added three wins during CSA Individual Championships during run to Molloy Cup Final … Rallied from 0-1 deficit for Ivy League win over Dartmouth’s Christian Shah (1/16) … Rallied from another 0-1 deficit for win over Trinity’s Aly Eltokhy (1/22) … Avenged regular season loss with 3-2 win over Harvard’s George Crowne in Potter Cup final (2/20) … Rallied from 0-2 deficit for Molloy Cup win over Princeton’s Thomas Rosini (3/4) … Rallied from 0-1 and 1-2 deficits for Molloy Cup win over teammate Roger Baddour (3/5).

2020-21: All 2020-21 Ivy League winter sports were canceled on November 12 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.
 
High School: Four-year letter winner and captain in 2020 … Helped lead Brunswick to back-to-back national championships in 2018 and 2019 … Helped lead Brunswick to New England championships in 2017, 2018 and 2019 … Reached a high of #2 in the country in Under-19 rankings … Won the 2019 Under-19 Connecticut Junior Championship … Finished second in the 2019 Under-19 West Coast Junior Championship and third in the Under-19 Midwest Junior Championship …  Finished fourth in the 2019 Under-19 U.S. Junior Open Championship and fifth in the 2019 Under-19 U.S. Junior Squash Championship … A three-time High School Squash All-American (2018, 2019, 2020) and 2019 High School Squash All-New England … Finished 11th at the World Junior Squash Championships in 2019 and 14th at the British Squash Junior Open in 2020 … Earned academic high honors in 2019, honors in 2018, and made the Headmasters List in 2017.

Personal: Brother, Eliot, played tennis at the University of Texas … High school teammates with fellow Class of 2024 recruit Dana Santry … Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business.
 
Nick Spizzirri Career
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ex Over. Ivy
2021-22 2-0 6-3 4-2 15-6 3-3
2022-23 3-0 12-0 16-1 6-0
Career 3-0 14-0 6-3 4-2 31-7 9-3

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

    6'3"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    6'3"
  • 2022-23Junior

    6'3"
  • 2023-24Senior

    6'3"
  • 2024-25Senior

    6'3"