22 Top Squash Players Working In Finance

This week, the prestigious J.P.Morgan Tournament of Champions squash event took place in Grand Central Station's Vanderbilt Hall.  

Squash happens to be one of the more popular sports played by finance professionals.  They play it after work and on weekends. 

Forbes magazine once called the racquet sport the "preferred sport on Wall Street" because it doesn't take long to complete a match.

Those who played in the JPMorgan tournament in NYC are full-time professional squash players.

There are also bunch of talented squash players on Wall Street. We've decided to highlight them here.

Many of these folks were national champions, All-Americans and internationally ranked.  Some of them are playing professionally still, while others are remembered as legends from their squash days.   

Hedge funder Victor Niederhoffer has been called 'one of the best American players of the late 20th century.'

Finance Job: Hedge fund manager 

School: Harvard (c/o 1964)

Squash Highlights:Vanity Fair called Niederhoffer "one of the best American players of the late 20th century." He came to Harvard a tennis player and ended up a squash super-star.  He won the intercollegiate championship his senior year.

He was a U.S. champion without losing for ten years winning five of them.  He was a world champion, too. 

Broker Yasser El Halaby was ranked No. 40 in the world. He's also the most decorated collegiate squash player.

Finance Job: He currently works at Marco Polo Securities, FINRA records show. He previously worked for Beltone Private Equity in Egypt. 

School: Princeton (c/o 2006)

Squash Highlights: He's the most decorated collegiate squash player in history winning the College Squash Association individual championships four years in a row. He played internationally for Egypt from 2006 until 2009. He was ranked No. 40 in the world. 

Allen & Co. director Jeff Stanley captured a handful of national championships.

Finance Job: He's a director at Allen & Co. 

School: Princeton (c/o 1989)

Squash Highlights: He was a U.S. Junior National Champion in 1985.  He represented the U.S. team in the 1984 World Junior Championships in Calgary. He was an Intercollegiate National Champion in 1987 and 1988 (finalist in 1989). He was the U.S. Men's National Champion in 1987.

Stanley played professionally from 1989 to 1994.  His highest ranking was No. 7. He represented the U.S. Team at the World Championships in Finland (1991) and Pakistan (1993). 

He was also a North American Open Doubles Champion in 1995 with Peter Briggs and a U.S. National Century Doubles Champion in 2010 with Gordon Anderson.