PRINCETON, N.J. -- For the second-straight year, the College Squash Association (CSA) Ramsay Cup winner and women’s individual national champion hails from the Ivy League. Penn junior Reehem Sedky Salah earned the 2018 title after back-to-back runner-up finishes as a freshman and sophomore.
 
The Ivy League has won 33-of-37 Ramsay Cups since 1982 and 38-of-54 all-time. In this year’s final, Sedky Salah—the 2018 Ivy League Player of the Year—outlasted Harvard’s Gina Kennedy in four games (11-5, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8) to become the Quakers' first national champion since Jessica DiMauro in 1996.
 
Sedky Salah had fallen to Kennedy in the 2017 finals and Trinity’s Kanzy El Defrawy in the 2016 edition.
 
“I'm extremely proud of Reeham,” said Penn women’s squash head coach Jack Wyant. “She worked so hard to earn this title. I know she felt tremendous pressure to win this year—having finished second twice. I expect this achievement will give her the confidence to go on and win more titles.”
 
Sedky Salah posted an unblemished 13-0 regular-season mark and added three more wins at the CSA National Team Championships to move to 16-0 on the year. With her four wins at the CSA Individual Championships, Sedky Salah finishes her junior campaign 20-0. Dropping just two games all season, Sedky Salah earned her second-straight Ivy League Player of the Year nod, becoming the first player in Quaker history to win the award in back-to-back seasons.

Harvard’s Sue Ann Yong (Holleran Cup North) and Princeton’s Kira Keating (Holleran Cup West) finished as B Division victors, while the Ivy League also produced all four B Division runners-up in Columbia’s Madlen O’Connor, Cornell’s Michele Garceau, Harvard’s Eleonore Evans and Princeton’s Raneem El Torky.