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2022-23 Women's Squash Roster
Roster
Richards, Ciara
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
/ Women's Squash
Ciara Richards
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Pontypridd, Wales
- High School:
- Pontypridd
Bio
2022-23 / Senior
Competed in 10 matches for the Dragons…went 7-3 in team play, competing seven times at number nine…went 2-0 at the Howe Cup, helping Drexel to a fifth place finish…also posted a 2-0 mark at the MASC Championships as DU won the Gaynor Cup.
2021-22 / Junior
MASC All-Academic…appeared in 18 matches for the Dragons…went 11-7 in team play, including a 5-1 mark at the number six position…won seven matches in a row from January 22 through February 12…advanced to the consolation final of the Holleran South Draw of the CSA Individual Championships (3/4-6/22)… won all four of her matches at the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference championships as the Dragons won the Gaynor Cup.
2020-21 / Sophomore
Did not compete due to COVID-19 global pandemic.
2019-20 / Freshman
Posted an 11-9 overall record: going 3-0 at the No. 3, 1-1 at the No. 4, 4-2 at the No. 5, 2-5 at the No. 6 position and 1-1 as an individual…opened her collegiate career with sweeps of Franklin & Marshall’s Emily Knapp and Penn’s Lindsay Stanley in the first weekend of the season…won a hard-fought five-gamer over Columbia’s Bunny Fox on Nov. 23 as Drexel topped the Lions for the first time in program history…swept Starnisha Ramsey of St. Lawrence on Dec. 6…helped propel Drexel to a No. 5 ranking in mid-December, the highest ranking in program history…was a perfect 3-0 with three sweeps at the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference Championships as the Dragons lifted the Gaynor Cup…featured in all three of Drexel’s Howe Cup matches as the Dragons finished seventh in the nation for the second-consecutive season…bested Stanford’s Amita Gondi in a five-game comeback in the Howe Cup consolation semifinals…competed in the Holleran East bracket at the College Squash Association Individual Championships, reaching the quarterfinals.
Background
Welsh junior champion at each age group…reached the semifinals of the European Team U19 Championships with the Welsh Wizards in 2015 and 2016.
Personal
Daughter of Louise and Lee Richards…has one older sibling, Liam…majoring in English.
Competed in 10 matches for the Dragons…went 7-3 in team play, competing seven times at number nine…went 2-0 at the Howe Cup, helping Drexel to a fifth place finish…also posted a 2-0 mark at the MASC Championships as DU won the Gaynor Cup.
2021-22 / Junior
MASC All-Academic…appeared in 18 matches for the Dragons…went 11-7 in team play, including a 5-1 mark at the number six position…won seven matches in a row from January 22 through February 12…advanced to the consolation final of the Holleran South Draw of the CSA Individual Championships (3/4-6/22)… won all four of her matches at the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference championships as the Dragons won the Gaynor Cup.
2020-21 / Sophomore
Did not compete due to COVID-19 global pandemic.
2019-20 / Freshman
Posted an 11-9 overall record: going 3-0 at the No. 3, 1-1 at the No. 4, 4-2 at the No. 5, 2-5 at the No. 6 position and 1-1 as an individual…opened her collegiate career with sweeps of Franklin & Marshall’s Emily Knapp and Penn’s Lindsay Stanley in the first weekend of the season…won a hard-fought five-gamer over Columbia’s Bunny Fox on Nov. 23 as Drexel topped the Lions for the first time in program history…swept Starnisha Ramsey of St. Lawrence on Dec. 6…helped propel Drexel to a No. 5 ranking in mid-December, the highest ranking in program history…was a perfect 3-0 with three sweeps at the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference Championships as the Dragons lifted the Gaynor Cup…featured in all three of Drexel’s Howe Cup matches as the Dragons finished seventh in the nation for the second-consecutive season…bested Stanford’s Amita Gondi in a five-game comeback in the Howe Cup consolation semifinals…competed in the Holleran East bracket at the College Squash Association Individual Championships, reaching the quarterfinals.
Background
Welsh junior champion at each age group…reached the semifinals of the European Team U19 Championships with the Welsh Wizards in 2015 and 2016.
Personal
Daughter of Louise and Lee Richards…has one older sibling, Liam…majoring in English.
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