NUSEA shares best practices, recruits great people, and provides resources for urban squash youth programs
Mission
The NUSEA mission is to promote squash and education among urban youth.
Overview
The National Urban Squash and Education Association (NUSEA) is an outgrowth of twelve years of success of community-based urban squash and education programs. The organization was founded in June 2005 by Greg Zaff, George Polsky, Steve Gregg and Tim Wyant, the Executive Directors of SquashBusters, StreetSquash, SquashSmarts and CitySquash, respectively. With more than 25 years of direct program work among them, Greg, George, Steve and Tim were unified in their belief that it was time for urban squash to ‘go national’. Urban squash was excelling. New cities were clamoring to launch programs but there was no organized blueprint for doing so. Established programs were missing out on the opportunity of learning from one another and discussing how they could share best practices in a systemic fashion.
NUSEA will be this catalyst, organizer and agent for improvement and growth. Four ways that NUSEA will add value are to author a Best Practices guidebook, provide challenge and membership grants, develop national measurement criteria, and host learning retreats for program staff and board members. Additionally, NUSEA will sponsor and coordinate its two national squash tournaments: the Urban Team and Urban Individual Championships.
NUSEA’s ultimate aim is to oversee the creation and longevity of many urban squash programs so that thousands of young people across America benefit every day from our athletic, educational and community enrichment activities.
