Students at New York City’s Thurgood Marshall Academy are donning white shoes, shorts and clear protective goggles and hitting the squash courts. An intensive program called StreetSquash combines athletics and academics, and students in this program are pumped full of excitement with every hit of the ball against the wall. The students in the StreetSquash program are heading off to college. The group has been borrowing courts in Manhattan for the last ten years, but this year will graduate its first class from their new home in Harlem.
There are no entrance requirements to get into the StreetSquash program, but every student is evaluated during a 30 day trial and they are expected to attend every single day. If the students miss more than one or two sessions without having an excuse, they may not be allowed to stay in the program. The committment to the program is a four day a week committment which consists of two days of homework and squash and one day of preparation for the SAT tests or literacy education for the junior high level participants.
The National Urban Squash and Education Association sponsors the program and using squash as a means to help students achieve academically is a growing niche. There are currently nine programs as members with several programs in the works across the country.
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