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It seems to be about squash; it’s really about life.

This collection of essays culled from over twenty years of Squash Magazine columns ranges fluidly from the personal to the practical with humor, emotion, and wisdom throughout.

Essays about coaches, teammates, legends, and losses are intertwined with stories about fishing, jumping from a plane without a parachute, and invisible gorillas to explore questions big and small. Who played in squash’s miracle match? How do you recognize class? What ‘mistake’ is actually subtle excellence?

In One More Point, acclaimed MC and backpage columnist Will Carlin assembles, updates, and adds commentary to previously published pieces in this valuable and revealing anthology. If you love squash, sports in general, or stories with larger truths, then you’ll love this collection that combines them all in fast-paced, entertaining essays.

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Coming this spring, One More Point will make you laugh, make you emotional, and make you appreciate life and our game all over again.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Will Carlin, though best known these days as the back-page columnist for Squash Magazine and the host of the NetSuite Open in San Francisco, the Windy City Open in Chicago and the Tournament of Champions in New York, has had a long squash career.

As a senior at Deerfield Academy, Will was the one of the first boys in prep school history to go undefeated in team matches at #1. Will went to Yale, where he played number one, was Captain his senior year, and was first team All America and All Ivy for three consecutive years.

In 1989, Will won the US National Softball title three hours after playing the longest semifinal in nationals history (2 hours 13 minutes). Will was the US #1 player for three years between 1990 and 1995. During this time, Will became one of the first US men to play the PSA tour full-time, which he did for three years, achieving one of the highest-ever PSA rankings by a US man (51).

Will served for 14 years as Vice President of New York Squash and for 12 years on the US Squash Executive Committee, where he won the Stewart Brauns Award for service to US Squash.

Will was elected as squash’s first athlete representative to the US Olympic Committee, where he served on the Board and the Executive Committee. He is the only non-Olympian ever to serve as one of two athlete representatives on its Executive Committee, and one of only two squash players worldwide ever to serve on its country’s Olympic EC.

He has been the backpage columnist of Squash Magazine for 21 years.