Officers

Treasurer: Stephen Weber – Steve started playing squash at the Nielsen Tennis and Squash facility (only 25 cents per court!) of the University of Wisconsin (Madison) while working for his Ph.D. in economics in the late Sixties. It was an easy transition from playing other wall games like handball and racquetball, and he has never looked back. Upon moving to the DC area in 1975 he joined the Regency Sport & Health Club where he played hardball, but was eventually persuaded by the late Jeff Fisher to switch to the international softball game. In the early Nineties he joined the Potomac Squash Club nearer his job as economist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Since retiring he has had time to improve his game under his mentor, Shahid Khan, and to serve as Treasurer of NCSRA. Steve can be reached here

VP Tournaments: Hunt Richardson – In addition to his role as our Vice President for Tournaments, Hunt is a US Squash National Referee, a Certified Referee Instructor and US Squash’s Director of Officiating for our District. A member of the NCS Board since 1991, Hunt has been active in player and program development since he moved to Washington from New York in 1984.  Hunt is a founding member of the Board of SquashEmpower.  He is also the Squash Expert on AllExperts.com.

Hunt’s full-time occupation is Head Squash Professional at the Sports Club/LA.   A “swing technician,” Hunt remains a student of the game.  He has learned from Hashim Khan, Geoff Hunt, Rodney Martin, Chris Walker, Natalie Grainger and Marty Clark.  He loves to share what he has learned about squash with people of all ages.

Hunt competed for 21 years decades at the Number 1 position on various teams in NCSRA Division 1. He won the NCS Fisher Cup Premier Division Championship in 2001 and he has won or been a finalist in virtually every regional tournament at one time or another.  Hunt was also active in intercollegiate and national competition. He lettered for four years on the Men’s Varsity Squash Team at Princeton University and achieved a ranking of #12 in the United States Men’s “A” in 1987.  He was consistently ranked in the top five in several national age group categories before he retired from competition in 2006.

In his spare time Hunt likes (in no particular order) to travel, speak French and Spanish, swim, hike, play golf, sing, play the guitar, cook and do funny voices.  If you need to know anything about squash in Washington, DC, Hunt will be happy to tell you about it!

VP Women, Interim President: AJ Copeland – AJ started playing squash (hardball) at boarding school in 1975, and played through college on the Brown varsity women’s team. She played sporadically and then finally not at all while in medical school and residency, and picked up the game again in 1996 (now softball, of course). She was a member at Potomac Squash Club since moving back to the DC area in 2002 and at Results since 2010. She has played in the NCSRA Leagues intermittently, frequently in the Ladies’ League, and has played Howe Cup every year since moving back to DC. She joined the NCSRA Board in August 2007.

AJ can be reached here

 VP League: Malcolm Jensen – Having played tennis for the University of Maryland, Malcolm continued as an avid tennis player to the age of 38 (1976) when he gave it up for squash.  He had been introduced to squash ten years earlier, but by 1976 was no longer willing to relegate squash to winter and give summers to tennis.  By 1978, he was playing squash every day, averaging about four hundred matches a year, a pace that continued for nineteen years until a knee injury resulted in a reduced schedule of three or four times weekly – his current pace.  During that nineteen-year period, he maintained a national age group ranking (first in American hard ball squash, then in both American and International squash, and finally in International squash alone) in the top ten in the US, including two years at # 1, two years at # 2, and always in the top 5 with the soft ball, and rankings always in the top 10 (highest at #3) with the hard ball.

In 1975 or 1976, Fred Guyotte, Jeff Fisher and Malcolm set up and started a squash league in the DC area.  It was, essentially, an “A” league, with teams from each club made up of their best players.  In 1979, the three of them together with Don Williams created the National Capital Squash Racquets Association as a member organization of the USSRA.  Malcolm was the organizing president of the association.  He has been a member of the board of directors of NCS in nearly every year since, and for many years was a member of the board of the USSRA.  He was captain of the Potomac Squash Club team for the three years prior to the setting up the NCSRA, and have continued since to captain one or two teams (recently, usually at RIO Sport & Health) in nearly every season, winter or summer.

Malcolm has been one of very few Master Referees in the US for American hard ball squash, singles and doubles, for many years.  With the softball, he’s a Regional Referee and Certified Referee Instructor.  Fortunately, the abilities necessary to refereeing at a high level seem to be less affected by the aging process than are the abilities necessary to playing at a high level.  Malcolm’s pleasure in playing our great game is undiminished by age.

Malcolm can be reached here