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Success at Urban Individual Nationals

This year’s Urban Individual Nationals tournament, hosted by SEA, brought together students from 17 programs across 19 cities in the US as well as one international affiliate from Columbia. The 459 students that participated were split between two colleges in Massachusetts, Williams and Amherst, depending on age. This year was our first year with students […]

Summer at SCS

Summer at SCS is filled with continued learning opportunities for our students inside and outside of our program. In June, seven of our students participated in Chatham University’s three-week long Music and Arts Day Camp. Chatham, a long time partner of SCS, awarded these students full scholarships to participate in the camp. Leading up to […]

Ms. Charelise Davis

Ms. Davis comes to Steel City Squash with a wealth of experience working with youth, a strong educational background that has helped to inform her work, and a passion for the growth and development of young people through sports. After graduating from Michigan State with a BA in Family Community Services and a concentration in […]

Summer Discovery

Math, reading, squash, rock climbing, basketball, swimming, kickball, Andy Warhol, carpet sliding, and Kennywood! Needless to say, Steel City Squash’s third annual Summer Discovery program was a blast. Summer Discovery was a great success in large part due to our continued partnership with the University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt’s Kids, which supplements our academic and squash […]

Summer Experience

Travel is an integral part of Steel City Squash and this summer was one of our most packed seasons yet. Steel City Squashers have been busy travelling the country this summer for both squash and academic programs. Jonae, a rising 8th grader, was awarded a scholarship from SEA to spend 5 weeks at Taft, a […]

Off to High School

Four years ago the first class of SCS students stepped into Trees Hall as 5th graders, now they are off to high school. Ripe with energy and enthusiasm and probably unsure of why the sport they were about to partake in was named after a root vegetable, those students became the inaugural class of Steel […]