Six Cavaliers Competing at CSA Individual ChampionshipsSix Cavaliers Competing at CSA Individual Championships

Six Cavaliers Competing at CSA Individual Championships

Karim Elbarbary, JP Tew, and Juan Jose Torres Lara will compete in the top bracket. Max Velazquez, Dylan Moran, and Nathan Rosenzweig will play in the lower draws

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.

HOW TO FOLLOW

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