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2021-22 Men's Squash Roster

Michael Nance
Hunter Martin
Hunter Martin

Aly Abou Eleinen

  • Height 5-9
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Alexandria, Egypt
  • Highschool Brooks School

Biography

2021-22: First Team CSA All-America… Unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection ... Became second three-time All-America in program history and ninth three-time first-team All-Ivy … Became second men’s player to win 50 matches at Penn and first to do it in three seasons … Competed in 18 of 19 varsity matches … Helped lead Penn to its second straight Potter Cup final … Went 17-1 in team competition, including 6-0 in Ivy League play, and 7-0 playing out of the No. 1 spot … Won 10 matches by 3-0 score, including three in Ivy League play … Won four straight matches by 3-0 score between 11/14 and 11/20, dropping an average of 11 points in each match … Clinched team win over Harvard with 3-1 win over Marwan Tarek (1/15) … Rallied from 0-1 and 1-2 deficits for five-game win over Drexel’s Matias Knudsen in Potter Cup quarterfinal (2/18) … Rallied from 0-1 deficit for five-game win over Yale’s Nadav Raziel in Potter Cup semifinal (2/19) … Advanced to CSA Individual Championships A Division semifinals before falling to Ivy League Player of the Year Youssef Ibrahim of Princeton (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.
 
2019-20: First-team CSA All-AmericaUnanimous first-team All-Ivy selectionAcademic All-Ivy ... The H Hunter Lott Jr. Trophy Winner (Team MVP) ... National runner-up at the CSA Individual Championships (Pool Trophy – A Division) … First Penn men’s player to reach the national final since Stewart Ballard in 1986 … Became the fourth multiple first-team All-America and 15th multiple first-team All-Ivy recipient in program history … Competed in all 17 team matches, one of only two Quakers to do so … Went 17-4 overall, going 14-3 in team play and 3-1 in individuals … Helped lead Penn to its first Potter Cup final and second-place finish … Went 6-1 in Ivy League play … Won 12 of 17 matches by a 3-0 score … Won nine straight matches from 1/12 to 2/29 … Went 2-1 in the Potter Cup, opening the quarterfinals with a win over Yale’s Nadav Raziel (2/28) … Defeated Trinity’s Kush Kumar for his 30th career win and helped the Quakers advance to the Potter Cup final and defeat the Bantams for the first time since 1996 (2/29) … Competed in the CSA Individual Championships A Division (Pool Trophy) … Defeated first-team All-Ivy Samuel Scherl of Harvard in the Round of 16 and defeated teammate James Flynn in the quarterfinals (3/6) … Overcame first-team All-Ivy Saadeldin Abouaish of Harvard in the semifinals before falling to first-team All-Ivy Marwan Tarek (Harvard) in a thrilling, five-game finale.

2018-19: First Team CSA All-America ... First-Team All-Ivy ... Helped Penn to its first ever No. 1 CSA ranking ... Helped Penn to a third-place finish in the Potter Cup - its best finish in program history ... Finished the season ranked No. 10 in the CSA individual rankings ... Went 6-1 during Ivy League matches ... Played majority of freshman season at the team's No. 2 slot where he went 15-3 during team events ... Won in five games to clinch the Quakers' 5-4 victory at No. 8 Princeton (1/30) ... Won first 12 matches of his collegiate career ... First career win came against Franklin & Marshall (11/10) ... Won first Ivy match against No. 7 Yale (1/12) ... Advanced to the consolation finals of the Pool Division.

High School: Two-time captain and varsity squash player ... Two-time All-American ... US Open Champion ... Three-time all-league ... New England Co-Player of the Year (2017-18) ... Independent School League (ISL) MVP (2016-17) ... Boston Globe Player of the Year (2016-17) ... Three-time All-New England ... ISL Individual Sportsmanship Award recipient ... Recognized as the best squash player in Brooks' history. 

Personal: Son of Omneya and Hassan Abou Eleinen ... Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business. 
 
Aly Abou Eleinen Career
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ex Over. Ivy
2018-19 1-0 10-3  4-0             17-5 6-1
2019-20 1-0 13-3                  17-4 6-1
2021-22 7-0  10-1                  19-2  6-0 
Career 9-0 33-7  4-0                53-11 18-2

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

    5'9"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    5'9"
  • 2020-21Junior

    5'9"
  • 2021-22Senior

    5'9"