Second-year Salman Khalil and third-year Omar Hafez went to battle in an all-Penn men’s squash tilt on Tuesday in the men’s final at the 2025 CSA Individual Championship, with Khalil taking his teammate in straight games to claim the individual title.
Khalil is the first Quaker to win the Pool Trophy since Ned Edwards in 1979, ending a 46-year title drought for the program, and the second-year became only the fifth in program history to raise the trophy joining Edwards, Palmer Page (1971), Howard Coonley (1966), and Leroy Lewis (1938).
Tuesday’s match was the first time in five years that Penn was represented in the final, and the matchup between Khalil and Hafez marked just the third time that Penn teammates faced each other in the CSA Individual Championships final (the others coming in 1971, when Page beat Eliot Berry, and 1979 when Edwards defeated Jonathan Foster).
Tuesday’s final was a meeting between the two most recent Ivy League Rookies of the Year, with Hafez earning the honor from the Ancient Eight coaches in 2022-23 and Khalil gaining the award last season.
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