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U.S. Squash is the national governing body for the sport of squash in the United States. U.S. Squash was previously known as The United States Squash Racquets Association (USSRA). The organization is headquartered in New York City and is a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee. U.S. Squash owns and licenses the U.S. Open, the North American Open, and all other US Championships.〔(About US Squash )〕〔(Tournament list )〕 Last year, the organization held 30 championship events for juniors, adults, hardball, and doubles. The U.S. National High School Championships, held at Yale, is the largest squash tournament in the world in terms of the overall number of participants. In 2008, over 90 teams and 700 players participated in the tournament.〔(About US Squash )〕 The Men's National Championship (the SL Green) and the Women's National Championship are held every year at the Master's Championships. U.S. Squash supports five national teams (Men's, Women's, Junior Men's, Junior Women's, and U23) that compete abroad in World Squash Federation team tournaments. The current top American male player is Christopher Gordon and the top American female player is Amanda Sobhy. The organization currently has 12,000 current members.〔(History of the Organization )〕 ==History== In 1904, US Squash was founded in Philadelphia to satiate the desires of a growing and demanding population of squash players to organize. Subsequently with its creation, US Squash—which at the time was called the "United States Squash Racquets Association"—was the first squash organization in the world. The organization took up the mantle for being the arbiter in all dealings of the sport when concerning rules and regulations by being the first association to define and regulate the sport: this not only included rules about play, but also ball and court specifics/regulations. By 1923, US Squash had grown in popularity throughout the country. This caused the organization to start to annually gather with an executive board meeting. The board members were to address the ever growing and evolving issues that manifest from such a human enterprise and conceive the new policies, by-laws and goals of the organization(or "mission"). As the 1950s had approached, the US Squash's Board's goal to nationally organize the sport had seemingly been realized; to boot the popularity of the sport had notably exploded. With the ever growing number of players the organization decided to expand the board positions and hired full-time executives to help run it. Along with the expansion within the sport, the organization opened two new subdivisions to fairly separate the players by starting both the Junior Nationals and the Senior Nationals. In 1957, US Squash officially incorporated as a "not-for-profit" organization in the state of New York.〔http://www.ussquash.com/about/history/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「U.S. Squash」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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