‘URBAN SQUASH’ – AN ESTABLISHED AMERICAN MODEL Originating in Boston in 2006, the innovation of connecting squash with education as ‘Urban Squash’ has now produced 17 programmes operating across America, currently supporting 1500 disadvantaged children from 8yr olds through to high school. The results are impressive, with 97% of them then graduating from high school and going on to college. NOW THIS SUCCESS IS WORKING IN LONDON Since 2015 Sacred Heart Primary School in Battersea, have been piloting the UK’s first version of the American Urban Squash model – a Squash & Maths programme – initiating a partnership with South London’s prestigious Wimbledon Club and its squash director Stacey Ross. The programme involved a group of up to 25 pupils being escorted to the Club twice a week after school. They were then split into two simultaneously operating sessions: one group learning/playing squash, while the others did maths. After an hour they would swap over.
