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2022-23 Women's Squash Roster
Roster
Bushma, Alina
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Alina Bushma
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- Hometown:
- Kyiv, Ukraine
- High School:
- Lesia Ukrainka Gymnasium No. 117
Bio
2022-23 / Fifth Year
CSA First Team All-America…First Team MASC…Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Co-Performer of the Year...CSA Scholar-Athlete...MASC All-Academic...finalist for the Richey Award, the top honor in women's college squash...competed in 16 matches for the Dragons, all in the number one position…went 12-4 in team play and 1-1 at the CSA Individual Championships for a 13-5 mark overall…started the year 10-0 with sweeps in eight of those matches…won at the top spot against both No. 1 Trinity and No. 2 Harvard…12 wins at number one are the third most in a single season in program history.
2021-22 / Senior
CSA First Team All-American…MASC First Team…MASC All-Academic…appeared in 18 matches for the Dragons…went 15-3 in team play, all in the second position…posted a 16-4 record overall…recorded a dramatic reverse sweep as Drexel defeated No. 2 Trinity (2/26/22) in the Howe Cup semifinals to advance to the national championship match…posted an eight match winning streak from February 5 through February 26…opened the year winning her first six matches, five of them as sweeps.
2020-21 / Junior
Did not compete due to COVID-19 global pandemic.
2019-20 / Sophomore
Garnered second team All-American honors from the College Squash Association after competing in the top-flight Ramsay Cup at the individual championships…Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference Female Rookie of the Year…named to the Mid-Atlantic Squash All-Conference Team…went 15-4 overall: 2-0 at the No. 1 position, 13-2 at the No. 2 and 0-2 as an individual…led the team in victories and matched the second-most single-season wins in program history…received Drexel University School of Education honors on Nov. 18 and Feb. 10…won six-straight matches to open the season, dropping just three games in the process…helped propel Drexel to a No. 5 ranking in mid-December, the highest ranking in program history…swept her first three opponents, including Penn’s Jamila Tamer and Stanford’s Casey Wong…topped Columbia’s Erica McGillicuddy in four games on Nov. 23 as Drexel notched its first-ever win over the Lions…swept Princeton’s Andrea Toth on Nov. 24…rallied off a season-best seven-straight wins in February…went 3-0 at the MASC Championships to guide the Dragons to the Gaynor Cup…won all three of her Howe Cup matches, winning nine of 10 games…authored a clean sweep of second team all-American Raneem El Torky in Drexel’s Howe Cup opener…prevailed in the winner-take-all match with Penn’s Jamila Tamer in the Howe Cup seventh-place match, breaking a 4-4 tie as the Dragons finished seventh in the nation for the second-consecutive season.
Background
Attended high school at Lesia Ukrainka Gymnasium No. 117…spent the 2017-18 academic year at Kyiv National Economic University…member of the Ukrainian national team since 2014…reached the No. 1 spot in each age group of the European junior squash rankings… won the Nordic Junior U19 Open in Oct. 2018 after finishing as runner-up at the Dutch U19 Junior Open three months prior.
Personal
Daughter of Inna and Aleksandr…has one older sibling, Alisa…majoring in computing and security technology.
CSA First Team All-America…First Team MASC…Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Co-Performer of the Year...CSA Scholar-Athlete...MASC All-Academic...finalist for the Richey Award, the top honor in women's college squash...competed in 16 matches for the Dragons, all in the number one position…went 12-4 in team play and 1-1 at the CSA Individual Championships for a 13-5 mark overall…started the year 10-0 with sweeps in eight of those matches…won at the top spot against both No. 1 Trinity and No. 2 Harvard…12 wins at number one are the third most in a single season in program history.
2021-22 / Senior
CSA First Team All-American…MASC First Team…MASC All-Academic…appeared in 18 matches for the Dragons…went 15-3 in team play, all in the second position…posted a 16-4 record overall…recorded a dramatic reverse sweep as Drexel defeated No. 2 Trinity (2/26/22) in the Howe Cup semifinals to advance to the national championship match…posted an eight match winning streak from February 5 through February 26…opened the year winning her first six matches, five of them as sweeps.
2020-21 / Junior
Did not compete due to COVID-19 global pandemic.
2019-20 / Sophomore
Garnered second team All-American honors from the College Squash Association after competing in the top-flight Ramsay Cup at the individual championships…Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference Female Rookie of the Year…named to the Mid-Atlantic Squash All-Conference Team…went 15-4 overall: 2-0 at the No. 1 position, 13-2 at the No. 2 and 0-2 as an individual…led the team in victories and matched the second-most single-season wins in program history…received Drexel University School of Education honors on Nov. 18 and Feb. 10…won six-straight matches to open the season, dropping just three games in the process…helped propel Drexel to a No. 5 ranking in mid-December, the highest ranking in program history…swept her first three opponents, including Penn’s Jamila Tamer and Stanford’s Casey Wong…topped Columbia’s Erica McGillicuddy in four games on Nov. 23 as Drexel notched its first-ever win over the Lions…swept Princeton’s Andrea Toth on Nov. 24…rallied off a season-best seven-straight wins in February…went 3-0 at the MASC Championships to guide the Dragons to the Gaynor Cup…won all three of her Howe Cup matches, winning nine of 10 games…authored a clean sweep of second team all-American Raneem El Torky in Drexel’s Howe Cup opener…prevailed in the winner-take-all match with Penn’s Jamila Tamer in the Howe Cup seventh-place match, breaking a 4-4 tie as the Dragons finished seventh in the nation for the second-consecutive season.
Background
Attended high school at Lesia Ukrainka Gymnasium No. 117…spent the 2017-18 academic year at Kyiv National Economic University…member of the Ukrainian national team since 2014…reached the No. 1 spot in each age group of the European junior squash rankings… won the Nordic Junior U19 Open in Oct. 2018 after finishing as runner-up at the Dutch U19 Junior Open three months prior.
Personal
Daughter of Inna and Aleksandr…has one older sibling, Alisa…majoring in computing and security technology.
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