California Squash | 2024-2025 Campaign

Founded 54 years ago in 1969, the California Squash team has built a legacy of excellence, capturing numerous national titles, including the Serues Cup just two seasons ago. Last year, we placed 4th in the nation, securing our position among the Top 10 club teams in the United States. While this was a remarkable accomplishment, we are setting our sights even higher this season, aiming to bring home the prestigious Chaffee Cup—the top trophy for any club team. Achieving this goal will require us to compete against the nation’s strongest teams, demanding more intensive training and greater preparation.

This year marks a major milestone for Cal Squash as we welcome our first full-time coach, who will be present at every practice and travel with us to all matches. This level of support is a significant step toward elevating our program, and it has only been made possible by the incredible generosity of donors like you. However, to reach our ambitious goals, we need continued support to fund additional resources and training.

Our success is directly tied to the contributions of our community, and every donation brings us closer to victory. Thank you for helping us push the boundaries of what’s possible. Go Bears!

Team talk before National Finals

This year, we plan to spend about $45,000 across the season. We plan to travel to more in order to compete against better opponentsand to keep our players sharp as we approach Nationals. We have a thirteen-player roster this year and in order to cover flights, hotels, court reservations, league fees, and other fees, we need increased funding to ensure that we can go on all of these trips. Our budget for the year is shown below

Estimates are rough only, and actual expenditures may vary.

Throughout the past few years, we have severely lacked funding, which is the reason we have not been able to take the next step to competing in the First Division of club teams in the United States. However, we are optimistic about this season with three freshman recruits coming in as well as keeping all but two of our players from last year. We feel it that this is going to be a good season. Our success this year is completely dependent on where we finish in the rankings at the end of the year, the bare minimum is an improvement from 4th position last year, and the goal, of course, is to be the best club team in the nation.

Coach Eric Katerman with the Serues Cup

One of the things that we as a team aspire to do is be able to provide a place for new players to come in and learn the sport of Squash whether that be at Berkeley or anywhere else. We have started a campaign along with some local Squash clubs, in which we as a team head out to local gyms and play with younger kids, so that they get interested in the sport of Squash. We want to grow Squash as a whole and will inspire more kids to play. All in all, your donation would help not only our traveling team, but also the growing Squash community around UC Berkeley.

With all being said, we would greatly appreciate any donation as it would go a long way towards helping us improve not only this year, but in the coming years as well. Help us become the Best Squash Club Team in the Nation! Go bears!