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2025-26 Women's Squash Roster

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Sohaila Ismail

  • Height 5-2
  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Milton Academy
  • Hometown El sherouk city, Egypt

Biography

2024-25: Second Team CSA All-America ... All-Ivy ... Competed in 20 matches across individual and team competition (17-3 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) ... Competing in the Ramsay Cup (A Division) bracket during the individual championship, Ismail made it to the round of 16 before falling to Cornell's first team All-American Yee Xin Ying ... Defeated two other 2024-25 CSA All-Americans during the season: Trinity’s Noa Romero (1/11) and Stanford’s Madison Ho (1/25) ... Competed in three different positions in the lineup in team matches ... Thirteen of 17 wins came in three straight games ... Earned two wins the in Howe Cup team championship tournament over Dartmouth’s Eleanor Clifford (3/6) and Stanford’s Miriam Cheng (3/7) to help propel her team to a third-place finish.

2023-24: Second Team CSA All-America … All-Ivy … Finished team competition 9-6, adding three wins throughout Ivy League play, competed in the Ramsay Cup … Opened the season with victories over Basmala Sayed Ahmed of Chatham (11/11), Karina Tyma of Drexel (11/12), Stanford’s Madison Ho (11/17) and Jesse Brownell of Georgetown (11/18) … Began Conference play with a win over Second Team All-American Aishwarya Khubchandani of Cornell (1/19) and added wins over Columbia’s Erica McGillicuddy (1/21) and Maria Clara Ramirez Velasquez of Dartmouth (1/27) . Downed Trinity’s Malak Ashraf Kamal (2/4) … Rounded out the season with a victory over CSA All-American and All-Ivy honoree Wen Li Lai of Cornell in Howe Cup play (3/2).
 
High School: Team captain senior year ... Finished second at 2022 New Englands and 12th at nationals ... Two-time Independent School League All-Star (2021-22, 2022-23) ... Two-time All-America (2021-22, 2022-23) ... Finished fifth at US Open ... World Ranking of No. 130.
 
Personal: Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
 
Why Penn? “I knew a couple of people that went there, and it felt like home after meeting my coaches and teammates.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

    5'2"
  • 2024-25Sophomore

    5'2"
  • 2025-26Junior

    5'2"