The University of Rochester is a school that welcomes students from all over the globe. Likewise, the University's squash team welcomes its members from various locations across the country and further diversifies a rich campus community.
 

Rochester squash has consistently performed among the country's best programs, with an international roster. There is one member of the team from America, Leonard Mohr. The rest of the team is made up of: Warm Ayanaputra of Thailand, Ashley Davies of England, Siddhant Iyer of India, Lawrence Kuhn of South Africa, Ricardo Lopez of Mexico, Sergio Martin of Mexico, Rodrigo Porras of El Salvador, Alex Riedelsheimer of Canada, Cesar Segundo of Mexico, Marcus Sim of Malaysia, Matthew Toth of Canada, and Thijs Van Der Pluijm of the Netherlands.
 
Like in soccer, basketball, or any number of sports, the styles of play from country to country vary in squash. These styles show themselves in the choices the players make during a match.
 
Rochester head coach Martin Heath described it as saying that "each hit a player has is a choice". One of them is an attack, the other is a safer, more defensive choice. The combination of all of a player's choices throughout a match starts to show style the of player they typically become.
 
There are a few 'main styles' of squash that players usually fit somewhere in between:
 
The first is a style most prevalent in Latin America. The idea is to be as physical as possible, run all over the court and keep a rally going for the longest amount of time you can. Players who favor this style seem to increase their chances of winning a point the longer the rally goes.
 
Players of this style will get nicknames like 'Cannonball' for their willingness to dive around the court and be as physical as possible. At Rochester, Lopez, Segundo and Kuhn tend to play a style similar to this Latin American prototype.
 
The English style of play is another alternative. This style is tactical and precise. It's about how smart you can be during a rally through your use of placement, technique, and tactics. Phrases like 'squash is chess on legs' come from watching talented English styled players compete and outwit opponents.
 
From Rochester's current roster, Davies, Riedelsheimer, Toth and Porras play a style of squash that resembles an English style of play.
 
One last style of squash is an Egyptian style. Players who fit this style are always looking to land kill shots, adding flair when they see an opportunity. For them, it's about offense: ending a match quickly, hitting the ball as hard as they possibly can, or a rapid-fire attack. These types of players have some of the best highlight plays, because they often try to make them, whereas others may focus more on other aspects of their game.

 
No player relies on only the strengths of their style, though. Englishmen work on their endurance and physicality, Latin American players still can place a shot into an area of their choosing on command, and Egyptian players don't swing with all their power on every shot.
 
Most players fall somewhere in between the Latin American and English style or somewhere between the Egyptian and English style. On Rochester's team, Sim falls between the English and Egyptian styles while van der Plujim, Iyer, and Mohr fall between the English and Latin American styles.
 
When watching a match of squash, you can notice the player's differences through their variations of "speed, style and temperament," said Heath. He added that it "definitely benefits [the team]" to have so many differing play styles, especially during challenge matches against one another.
 
Year in and year out, the team faces a tough schedule of opponents. Having teammates that can replicate the styles of most opponents helps prepare them for the physicality, technique, and speed of play that they will face.
 
Those styles will be on display this weekend when Rochester closes out its home schedule. The Yellowjackets will host Dartmouth College at 12 pm on Saturday and face Harvard at 12 pm on Sunday. In the mid-January rankings of the College Squash Association, Rochester is ranked No. 2, Harvard is No. 3, and Dartmouth is No. 6. The matches will be played at the Peter Lyman Squash Center in the Goergen Athletic Center.