Linda Robinson, who served on the US Squash Board of Directors for a decade, was honored with the President’s Cup, US Squash’s highest annual award, during the Tournament of Champions semifinals Wednesday, January 28, at Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
Robinson has been a leader and benefactor of the game with thirteen years of Board service for US Squash and StreetSquash. She served on the StreetSquash board for twelve years, from 2011 to 2023. During that time, she served as a team leader and captain of StreetSquash Cup teams raising funds each year. Robinson served on the US Squash Board for ten years, from 2014 to 2024, where she was the Chair of Nominating and Governance Committee and Board Vice-Chair from 2020 to 2023. Linda and her husband, Jim, contributed generously to the Specter Center project; and to the US Squash Annual Fund to advance growth initiatives nationally.
US Squash Board Chair Andrew Fink presented Robinson with the honor and reflected on their mutual board service at US Squash and StreetSquash.
“There is no one more deserving of this honor than Linda Robinson,” Fink said. “Linda has shown leadership and generosity to squash globally–and particularly to US Squash. Her leadership is evident in her twelve years of service on the board of StreetSquash, where she contributed mightily to the efforts and success of StreetSquash. Then she spent ten years on the board of US Squash where she was a major contributor to the Specter Center and to the growth of squash through the many US Squash initiatives. Her generosity and her spirit are unmatched. There is no person I would rather have on our side, who is tiredless and incredible in her ability to get things done, than Linda Robinson. No one is more disciplined, more thorough or more strategic, than Linda. She also has an enormous and generous heart, and an incredible wit.”
The President’s Cup is the highest individual annual award at US Squash. Treddy Ketcham, a former chair of the board of US Squash and a legendary leader of the game, inaugurated the award in 1966. In the past sixty years, it has been given by the president of US Squash to those who have made exceptionally substantial, significant and sustained contributions to American squash. Past honorees include Hashim Khan, the global squash star, squash club manager Nancy Cushman, Ned Bigelow, founder of the U.S. Open, Hazel White Jones, Squash News editor and tournament director, recently retired University Club of Chicago athletic director John Flanigan, Maria Toorpakai Wazir, Pakistani equal rights campaigner, and Tom Poor, a long-time champion and organizer of the game. Robinson is the forty-ninth recipient of the President’s Cup.
