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2025-26 Men's Squash Roster

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Omar Hafez

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Alexandria, Egypt
  • Highschool Future American School

Biography

Finishes his junior year sixth on the men's program's all-time wins list (51) 

2024-25: First-team CSA All-America ... Pool Trophy Finalist (CSA Individuals) ... All-Ivy ... Potter Cup Champion ... Competed in 22 matches in individual and team competition this season (20-2 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) ... Became the seventh player in program history to reach the 50-win milestone, during the semifinals of the Potter Cup against Trinity ... Finished second at the CSA Individual Championships, battling teammate Salman Khalil for the Pool Trophy in the first all-Penn final since 1979 and the third time two Quakers met in the final ... 14 of his 20 victories came in three straight games, including his wins over Trinity’s Low Wa-Sern in the Potter Cup semifinal (3/8) and Yale’s Lachlan Sutton in the final (3/9) ... Played three different positions in the lineup in team competition throughout the season ... Defeated five other 2024-25 CSA All-Americans in individual and team competition: Yale’s Lachlan Sutton (1/12, 1/26, 3/9), Harvard’s Denis Gilevskiy (1/25), Trinity’s Joachim Chuah (1/27), Harvard’s Neel Joshi (2/1), and Trinity’s Low Wa-Sern (3/8).  

2023-24: First Team CSA All-America … All-IvyPotter Cup Champion ... Finished team competition 14-1, adding a victory during CSA individuals (Pool Trophy) … Went a perfect 6-0 in Ivy League play … Began the season with a ten-match winning streak, including defeating Harvard’s All-Ivy honoree Omar Azzam 3-1 (1/28) … Added wins over Yale’s Second Team CSA All-American Arav Bhagwati (2/3) and came back down 1-2 to defeat First Team CSA All-American and All-Ivy honoree Hollis Robertson of Princeton (2/10) … Went 3-0 throughout Potter Cup play, defeating Columbia’s Shaurya Bawa in the quarterfinal (3/1), First Team CSA All-American and All-Ivy honoree Thomas Rosini of Princeton in the semifinal (3/2) and clinched the Potter Cup title with a victory over Trinity’s Second Team CSA All-American Joachim Chuah (3/3) … Added a win over Trinity’s Second Team CSA All-American Aly Eltokhy during the Pool Trophy Round of 16 (3/8).

2022-23: Ivy League Rookie of the Year … Went 16-1 during the year including 5-1 in Ivy play … Posted five-game win after 1-2 deficit over Cornell’s Veer Chotrani (1/13) … Rallied from 0-1 deficit for four-game win over Columbia’s Franklyn Smith (1/15) … Posted five-game win after 0-2 deficit over Trinity’s Marawan ElBorolossy (1/29) … Rallied from 0-2 deficit for five-game win over Virginia’s Cullen Little (2/16) … Picked up 3-0 wins in Potter Cup quarterfinal over Drexel’s Jose Andres Lopez (2/24) and Potter Cup third-place match over Yale’s Max Forster (2/26).

Personal: Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences

Why He Chose Penn: “I chose Penn because I loved the team and Coach Lane."
 
Omar Hafez Career
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ex Over. Ivy
2022-23 2-0 6-0 8-1 16-1 5-1
Career 2-0 6-0 8-1 16-1 5-1

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Freshman

    5'7"
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    5'7"
  • 2024-25Junior

    5'7"
  • 2025-26Senior

    5'7"