PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Head Coach - Women's Squash
Gail Ramsay enters her sixth year as the head coach of women's squash at Princeton University with an outstanding 41-6 career record. She has also guided the Tigers to back-to-back national championships at the Howe Cup and has coached two of the last three individual national champions in Katherine Johnson and Julia Beaver.
When Ramsay, whose teams have never finished lower than second at the Howe Cup, took her team to the 1998 national title, it ended Harvard's five-year run at the event. She also led Princeton to the 1998 Ivy League title, its first since 1991.
Ramsay is a 1980 graduate of Penn State, where she was a four-time national intercollegiate squash champion. Prior to her appointment at Princeton, she had been the head squash and tennis coach at Williams College for six years.
Ramsay was a top-ranked player throughout her playing career, ranking as high as number 2 in the United States on sever occasions. A four-time intercollegiate singles champion, she has also captured two doubles and seven mixed doubles titles.
A two-time member of the U.S. national team, Ramsay captained the 1985 team on its trip through Ireland and also was included on the 1983 team's trip to Australia for the World Championships.
Ramsay has coached at the Heights Casino Club, Uptown Squash Club and NYU, while also playing on the professional circut.
Ramsay is a past president of the U.S. Intercollegiate Women's Squash Racquets Association, and she and Bob Callahan are co-directors of the Princeton Squash Training Center. She was inducted into the USWISRA Hall of Fame as a player in 1995.