CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Six members of the Virginia men’s squash team will compete at the 2025 National Collegiate Individual Championships, which will be held Jan. 25-28 in New York, N.Y.

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NOTES ON THE TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE

  • The Pool Trophy is comprised of 32 players. The other brackets have 8 players
  • Players who lose in the opening round will fall into a consolation bracket
  • Semifinal matches of the Pool Trophy will be played on Monday with the final on Tuesday
  • Semifinals and finals of the other brackets will be played on Sunday

POOL TROPHY

  • Graduate student Karim Elbarbary, junior JP Tew, and freshman Juan Jose Torres Lara will be competing in the Pool Trophy bracket, the top draw of the tournament
  • Elbarbary is the 8-seed and will open play on Saturday at 10:40 a.m., facing Neel Joshi of Harvard
  • JP Tew will face Arav Bhagwati of Yale on Saturday at 10:40 a.m.
  • Juan Jose Torres Lara squares off on Saturday against Benedek Takacs of Trinity at 10:40 a.m.
  • This is Elbarbary’s third time competing in the top draw of the national championship. He advanced to the quarterfinals at Princeton in 2024
  • This is Tew’s first time competing in the top draw of the national championship. He has competed in the Molloy Cup twice
  • This is Torres Lara’s first time competing at the national championship

MOLLOY CUP

  • Junior Maxwell Velazquez, sophomore Dylan Moran, and freshman Nathan Rosenzweig will be competing in the B-Division Molloy Cup brackets
  • Velazquez will play in the east bracket, facing Antonio Mendes of Western Ontario on Saturday at 2:50 p.m.
  • This is his second straight appearance at the Molloy Cup. He won the consolation final of the Molloy Cup South bracket last year
  • Moran will play in the south bracket and face Imad Athar of Columbia on Saturday at 1:10 p.m.
  • This is his first time competing at the national championship
  • Rosenzweig will compete in the east bracket, taking on Sharan Punjabi of Franklin & on Saturday at 1:10 p.m.
  • This is Rosenzweig’s first time competing at the national championship