The Hotchkiss boys won the school’s first D1 national title in a 4-3 final against 2024 champions St. Andrews, while the Greenwich Academy Gators earned a remarkable tenth consecutive girls D1 title against the Hotchkiss girls on finals day of the 2026 U.S. High School Team Squash Championships Sunday, February 22, at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center.
High School Nationals is the world’s largest squash tournament with more than 1,700 players competing on 210 teams across fourteen divisions on sixty eight courts at eight venues in the greater Philadelphia area. Matches took place at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center, Berwyn Squash & Fitness Club, K2 Squash, Philadelphia Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill Squash at SCH, SquashTigers–Exton and Elevate Squash.
View all results on the High School Nationals tournament page. View live stream replays on the US Squash Youtube Channel. Tournament photography will be available on the US Squash Smugmug in the coming days.
For the second year in a row, both the Hotchkiss boys and girls reached the Division 1 finals, and for the first time in school history, the Bearcats earned a D1 title in a dramatic boys final.
The Hotchkiss boys entered the division as the two seeds and progressed to the final with a 7-1 quarterfinal win over Mercersburg Academy and 5-2 semifinal win over Haverford to meet top-seeded St. Andrews School in the final. In the final Hotchkiss No. 3 Jude Cha, No. 4 Reed Morris and No. 6 Knox Vitrano earned three wins for the Bearcats as the match went down to the No. 7’s on the side courts. St. Andrew’s Matteo Del Prete had the Scots within one game of a second national title with a 2-0 lead, but Hotchkiss’ Simrith Gaddam pulled off an extraordinary comeback to clinch the Just Cup 3-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-5, 11-6 after fifty-five minutes.
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The Patterson Cup final saw the continuation of the Greenwich Academy dynasty with their remarkable tenth consecutive D1 national title. The Gators overcame a fierce challenge from the Bearcats, however, as the final opened up splitting the opening four matches 2-2. No. 4 Elle Graziano, No. 5 Lily Bragg and No. 6 Sara Anderson Rahimtula put GA within reach of the title, which was sealed on the glass court by No. 1 Chelsea Chen in four close games against Najwa Zara Mohd Fakhur Razi.
New York City’s Spence School earned the girls D2 title in a close 4-3 final against the Lower Merion School District. Greens Farms Academy won an all-Connecticut boys D2 final, defeating top-seeded Hopkins School 4-1.
Germantown Friends School upset the top two seeds on their way to the girls D3 title, defeating two seeds St. Catherine’s 4-3 in the semifinals and top-seeded St. Paul’s 4-3 in the final. The Berkshire School earned the boys D3 title with 4-3 wins in both the semifinals against the Taft School and final against top-seeded Milton Academy.
Milton Academy would win a divisional title in the girls D4 division where they defeated National Cathedral 7-0 in the final. Crystal Spring became the first west coast program to win any High School Nationals title in the boys D4 division, defeating Penn Charter in the final 5-2.
Girls D5 top seeds Potomac fulfilled their seeding and captured the title with a 5-2 victory over the Millbrook School. Delbarton and Concord Academy share the boys D5 title after the final was not contested due to weather.
Nardin Academy and the Nichols School faced off in an all-Buffalo girls D6 final with the Nardin Gators taking the final 5-2. Maryland’s Landon School took the boys D6 title with upsets over two seeds BCC squash in the semifinals and top seeds SCH Academy in a 4-3 final.
Nichols would go on to win a title in the boys D7 division, where they defeated Lancaster Country Day 4-3 in the final. Connecticut’s Canterbury School claimed the boys D8 title with a 5-2 final win against Chicago Boys Latin.
