PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Head Coach - Men's Squash
Bob Callahan, a 1977 graduate of Princeton University, enters his 19th year as the Tigers' head
men's squash coach.
A four-year squash letterwinner while at Princeton, Callahan captained the Tigers' 1977 national championship squad and earned All-Ivy League and All-America honors following his junior and senior years. Princeton claimed three nine-man national titles in Callahan's four years, during which time he also played three years of varsity tennis.
After four years of working for IBM, Callahan retuned to his alma mater in 1981 and assumed the head coaching duties in squash. In his initial campaign he led the Tigers to an undefeated season, the Ivy League title and the national championship. Callahan's teams have compiled an Ivy League record of 70-20 and an overall mark of 162-30. Princeton, consistently ranked among the nation's top three teams, also won the 1993 national title.
Callahan is a former national squash champion and is director of the U.S. junior development for
squash. In the summer he directs the prestigious Princeton Junior Squash Training Center, which
annually attracts the top 300 junior squash players in America. He also served as the tournament
director for the World Junior Championships at Princeton in 1998, the first time the event had been held
in the United States.
Gail Ramsay
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.
Read about former women's assistant coach Richard Hankinson
Assistant Coach - Men's Squash
Neil Pomphrey
enters his eighth year as an assistant coach under Bob Callahan with the Princeton men's team.
A native of Scotland and a nationally ranked squash player in the United States, Pomphrey also works in the University's Plasma Physics Laboratory and coaches in the Princeton Township junior squash program.
Pomphrey is a graduate of Edinburgh University. He and his wife Ann have been married for 22 years.