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University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2018-19 Men's Squash

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Jonathan Zeitels

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Warren, N.J.
  • Highschool The Pingry School

Biography

2018-19: Team captain ... CSA Scholar-Athlete ... Named to Philadelphia Inquirer Acadmeic All-Aream At-Large Team ... Led Penn to its first ever No. 1 CSA ranking ... Led Penn to a third-place finish at the Potter Cup - its best finish in program history ... Won first seven matches of the season ... Eight of 12 victories were 3-0 triumphs ... Posted a 12-3 record ... Went 5-1 in Ivy League matches ... Went 1-1 in the Potter Cup.  

2017-18: Competed in five matches going 3-2 ... Started season with three match win streak losing just one game ... Two losses came to Navy and top ranked Trinity. 

2016-17 (Quakers finished seventh in the Potter Cup): Went a perfect 11-0 in Penn’s lineup and 14-2 overall (3-2 in the No. 10 slot) … Recorded and 8-0 mark at No. 9 and a 3-0 record at No. 8 … Ended the season on an 11-match win streak … Tallied a win at No. 9 in Penn’s first win at Princeton since 1973 … Won three-straight 3-1 decisions in the Potter Cup over Trinity, Rochester and Yale … Began the year with four-straight wins.

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 13-2 overall, including 6-1 in Ivy League matches … Competed in the No. 6-10 positions … Ivy wins came over Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Brown, Yale, and Columbia … Went 1-0 at the CSA Potter Cup, defeating Columbia.

High School: Lettered four years in squash … Served as team captain in his senior season … Helped lead Pingry to two New Jersey state championship titles in 2013 and 2015 … Awarded the New Jersey Junior Achievement in 2014 … Earned the U.S. Squash Scholar Athlete Award all four years of high school.

 
Jonathan Zeitels Career
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ex Over. Ivy
2015-16           1-0  3-0 3-1  4-0  2-1  13-2 6-1
2016-17               3-0  8-0  3-2  11-0 6-1
2017-18            2-0 1-1      3-2 0-0
2018-19               2-0 10-3  12-3 5-1 
Career         1-0   5-0 9-2  22-3  5-3  37-7 17-3

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Freshman

  • 2016-17Sophomore

  • 2017-18Junior

  • 2018-19Senior