David G. Proctor
They call squash a “Game For Life,” and David Proctor is certainly proof of that. One of the all-time great players in Penn’s history, he continued to be a star at the national level in the years beyond his graduation. Proctor arrived at Penn in the fall of 1983 and immediately made a name for himself, playing at the top of the Quakers’ ladder and earning the inaugural Ivy League Rookie of the Year award from the Ancient Eight coaches. (Since then, only two other Penn athletes have been so honored.) He continued to play at No. 1 as a sophomore, going 8-2 overall to receive first-team All-America and All-Ivy honors that year. He repeated those awards as a junior, and as a senior captain in 1986-87 he completed a four-year run of All-Ivy and All-America honors. Proctor was just the fourth player in program history to receive All-Ivy each of his four years on campus -- following in the footsteps of Joe Swain (1972-75), Gil Mateer (1974-77) and Ned Edwards (1977-80) -- and only two players were so honored in the 27 years between his graduation and his Hall of Fame induction. Following his graduation, Proctor became one of the great doubles players in the country, winning the U.S. National Doubles championship on four separate occasions (with four different players, no less) from 1989-96.
