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2019-20 Women's Squash

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Jessica Davis

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Loretto Sixth Form College
  • Hometown Manchester, England

Biography

2019-20: First-Team CSA All-AmericaFirst-Team All-IvyCSA Scholar-Athlete ... Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area ... Won the H Hunter Lott Jr. Trophy (Team MVP) ... Appeared in all 16 varsity matches, going 7-13 overall … Went 5-11 in team play and 2-2 in individuals … Helped Penn earn a Howe Cup appearance … Spent the entire season playing No. 1 in the lineup, routinely facing the nation’s best … Went 3-4 in Ivy League play … Defeated first-team All-Ivy Elle Ruggiero of Princeton (1/29) … Competed in the CSA Individual Championships in the Ramsay Cup (A Division) … Fell in the Round of 16 to eventual runner-up Hana Moataz (Harvard) but defeated Hannah Jinks (Virginia) in the consolation quarterfinals (3/6) … Defeated Ruggiero (Princeton) for a second time in the consolation semifinal (3/7) … Fell in the consolation final to Luz Sarahi Lopez Dominguez (Trinity), securing a 10th-place final finish in the final individual rankings.

2018-19: First-team All-Ivy ... CSA Scholar-Athlete ... Academic All-Ivy ... Helped lead the Quakers to an appearance in the Howe Cup ... Matched her career-high 11 wins ... Posted 5-2 record during Ivy League play ... Was a staple at Penn's No. 2 slot ... Began season with seven-match win streak ... Won 10 of her matches by the score of 3-0 ... Posted wins against No. 4 Stanford (11/16), No. 6 Yale (1/12), and No. 7 Columbia (2/10). 

2017-18: Competed in four varsity matches going 3-1 at the No. 2 and No. 3 slots. 

2016-17: Helped Penn to a second-place finish in both the Howe Cup (13-2) and the Ivy League (6-1) … Put together an 11-3 record at No. 4 and No. 5 … Finished 6-1 in the Ivy League … Posted seven 3-0 sweeps … Piled up nine-straight triumphs from 1/17 – 2/25 … Defeated Trinity’s Lakeesha Rarere in Penn’s 5-4 win in the CSA semifinals.

High School: Member of England’s U19 National Squash Team (2014) … Represented England at the European Championships in Helsinki, France and the World Championships in Windhoek, Namibia … Member of the first-place Cheshire Ladies County Squash Team (2016) … Winner of the “Contribution to English Study”, as well as “Contribution to Physical Education Study” Awards at Loretto Sixth Form.

Personal: Daughter of Julie and Paul Davis … Sister, Amanda, is a member of the England National Tap Dancing Team (2015 World Champions) … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Jessica Davis Career
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ex Over. Ivy
2016-17       4-0  7-3         11-3 6-1
2017-18   1-0  2-1               3-1 0-0
2018-19 11-6                 11-6 5-2
2019-20 7-13                 7-13 3-4
Career 7-13 12-6 2-1 4-0 7-3           32-23 14-7

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

  • 2017-18Sophomore

  • 2018-19Junior

  • 2019-20Senior