After a week off from team competition, the 14th-ranked Navy squash team (17-3) is set to return to action on Thursday when it travels to #30 Haverford (2-7). The match is slated for a 6:00 pm start at the GIAC Squash Courts. Following a day of rest, the Mids will return to the Prager Family Squash Facility on Saturday and play host to #19 Western (1-7) at 1:00 pm.

Navy team captain Alexander Orr (Sr / Haverford, Pa.) will be honored at Saturday's match as the program will celebrate Senior Day. Orr, who garnered Second-Team All-Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference honors a year ago, has amassed a 67-38 record over four seasons and is tied with Scott Hackman (2002-06) and Bill Kacergis (2012-16) for 15th on the Mids' all-time wins list. Additionally, he is just three wins from becoming only the 13th player in school history to reach the 70-win milestone. Orr teamed up with Ramsay Killinger (Jr / Wyndmoor, Pa.) last year to win the U.S. Intercollegiate Doubles National Championship, his first and the program's seventh title.

Admission is free to all home Navy squash matches. A reminder to fans planning on attending matches, vehicular access to the Naval Academy is limited to those with a Department of Defense identification card. It is suggested that fans park downtown and walk through the main gate. Parking on the grounds is allowed for those with a valid handicap placard and it must be presented at the time of arrival. Please note that a government issued identification card must be carried and presented at the gate by all visitors to the Naval Academy.

How to Follow
• A live scoring link will be available on the Navy Athletics website (squash schedule page) and via Club Locker for both matches.
• The Navy-Haverford match will also be streamed live with a link available on the Navy Athletics website (squash schedule page).
• As of Wednesday, the Navy-Western match will not be streamed due to ongoing technical issues. Check back on the Navy Athletics website (squash schedule page) for any changes.

Navy's Projected Lineup
Player (Yr / Hometown / 2025-26 record / career record)
1 |  Wenqing Tang (So / Villanova, Pa. / 17-2 / 41-6)
2 |  Christian Graziano (Fr / Greenwich, Conn. / 10-4 / 10-4) 
3 |  Alexander Orr (Sr / Haverford, Pa. / 13-3 / 67-38)
4 | Johan Hodgson (Fr / Riverside, Conn. / 6-1 / 6-1)
5 |  Matthew Kang (Jr / Malvern, Pa. / 13-3 / 34-30)
6 |  Avinash Uppuluri (So / Short Hills, N.J. / 13-4 / 16-8)
7 |  Andrew Ko (Fr / Sykesville, Md. / 10-5 / 10-5)
8 |  Michael Tierney Jr. (So / Berwyn, Pa. / 12-3 / 28-13)
9 |  Ramsay Killinger (Jr / Wyndmoor, Pa. / 15-2 / 47-24)
-- | Turner Wolf (Fr / Bronxville, N.Y. / 9-2 / 9-2)
-- |  Tighe Mullarkey (Jr / Locust Valley, N.Y. / 1-0 / 46-23)
-- |  Eli Levy (So / Williamstown, Mass. / 7-0 / 16-4)
-- |  Sean Wu (Jr / Princeton, N.J. / 8-0 / 28-15)
-- |  Holden Woodward (Jr / Richmond, Va. / 6-0 / 14-26)
Inj |  Hudson Poirier (So / Wellesley, Mass. / 9-0 / 19-2)

Looking Back
• Wenqing Tang represented Navy at the CSA National Individual Championship last weekend in New York City where he dropped a pair of hard-fought matches.
• Tang, who came into the match having won 22-consecutive matches in team play, came up short against Drexel senior Nico Serna in the opener, 8-11, 11-8, 11-8, 9-11, 11-7. Serna, meanwhile, would lose his next match to eventual National Champion Omar Hafez of Penn.
• The following day, Tang lost an 11-6, 15-13, 12-10 match against Colby's Seif Ashraf in the consolation bracket.
• This was Tang's first appearance at the CSA National Individual Championship.

Milestone Watch
• Alexander Orr owns a 67-38 record over four seasons and is tied with Scott Hackman (2002-06) and Bill Kacergis (2012-16) for 15th on the Mids' all-time wins list. Additionally, he is just three wins from becoming only the 13th player in school history to reach the 70-win milestone.
• Ramsay Killinger, meanwhile, continues to push towards the 50-win mark for his career, as he stands 47-24. He needs three wins to become the 40th player in program history to reach 50 wins. That milestone marker also holds true for Tighe Mullarkey who has posted a 46-23 mark.

Osborne Reaches 100
• Eighth-year Navy head coach Tyler Osborne earned his 100th collegiate victory on Dec. 7 with the 7-2 win over Rochester.
• Osborne, who became the seventh head coach in program history in the summer of 2018, is fourth Navy squash coach to reach the century mark in the wins column, joining Craig Dawson (365-154 / 2001-18), Dave Brown (267-117 / 1982-96) and Art Potter (267-62 / 1951-77).
• Osborne owns a 102-84 (.548) record heading into this week's matches

About the Opponents
#30 Haverford (2-7)
• Navy and Haverford will meet for 26th time in series history with Navy winning all 25 previously-played matches
• The inaugural meeting between the two programs was held Feb. 26, 1949 with Navy earning a 5-1 win
• Thursday's match marks the eighth time the two have met at Haverford, including the fourth year in a row - 9-0 on Jan. 29, 2006 / 9-0 on Dec. 5, 2008 / 9-0 on Jan. 31, 2015 / 9-0 on Feb. 4, 2017 / 7-2 on Jan. 19, 2023 / 6-3 on Jan. 25, 2024 / 9-0 on Jan. 23, 2025
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• The Fords enter the match against the Mids with a 2-7 record, picking up victories against St. Lawrence (5-4) and Vassar (7-2). Since the turn of the calendar year, Haverford has lost three in a row, dropping matches to Denison (6-2), Wesleyan (5-4) and Connecticut College (6-3)
• Dean Ibrahim (Fr / Quincy, Mass.) has found to most success for the Fords this season playing the lower half of the ladder and posting a 7-2 record, while Francis Betkowski (Jr / Mercersburg, Pa.) stands 6-3

#19 Western (1-7)
• After opening the season with a 5-4 victory over #20 Rochester, Western has lost seven in a row to #13 MIT (8-1), #2 Harvard (9-0), #8 Princeton (8-1), #10 Cornell (9-0), #11 Tufts (7-2), #12 Williams (8-1) and #3 Penn (9-0)
• Western is scheduled to play #5 Virginia in a neutral site match played at the Naval Academy on Friday at 4:30 pm
• No player has won more than two matches for Western this season - Josh Kay (2-6), Rio Schafer (2-6), Eesa Huq (2-6), Michael Knapp (2-2)
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• Western has won 14 of the 19 matches against Navy in what is a relatively new series. 
• Western won the inaugural meeting against the Mids 8-1 on Feb. 23, 1992, meeting in the ISA Championship in New Haven, Conn.
• 14 of the 19 matches have been played at a neutral site (H: 2-1 / A: 0-2 / N: 3-11)
• Saturday's match will mark just the fourth time the two programs have met at in Annapolis - W 5-4 on Jan. 9, 2013 / W 5-4 on Nov. 10, 2018 / L 8-1 on Feb. 3, 2025
• Navy's last win in the series was a 5-4 decision in Annapolis on Nov. 10, 2018.
• Western has won each of the last seven meetings.

What's Ahead
• Navy will play its final two regular-season matches of the 2025-26 season next week before entering postseason action (Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference Championship / CSA Team Divisional Championship)
• The Midshipmen will play host to Franklin & Marshall on Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 6:00 pm and will travel to Pittsburgh, Pa. on Saturday, Feb. 7 to play Chatham at 12-Noon.

### Go Navy ###