HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, Va. -- Hampden-Sydney College is proud to announce that it will add Club Squash to its athletic offerings beginning in the 2026-27 academic year.
 
The addition of Club Squash is made possible by a generous gift from John E. Corey '80, CEO and principal shareholder of CSC Leasing in Richmond and a member of the Hampden-Sydney College Board of Trustees. John, his sons and son-in-law all attended HSC. This gift has funded the construction of a state-of-the-art squash facility in Kirby Field House.
 
The new John Corey Squash Center, a 7,500-square-foot facility, will feature five courts, spectator seating for 120 people, and new locker rooms to support both the squash program and visiting basketball teams.
 
"We are incredibly grateful for John Corey's vision and generosity in helping us establish a squash program at Hampden-Sydney," says Athletics Director Chad Eisele. "His commitment to our student-athletes and the College is truly remarkable, and we look forward to the positive impact this program will have."
 
In addition to his gift for the squash program and facility, the family previously made a generous donation to establish the Josiah Bunting III and Diana Bunting Endowed Professorship at Hampden-Sydney College.
 
The College also named Grant White as the program's inaugural head coach.
 
White, who has served as an assistant coach at the University of Virginia since 2013, will begin recruiting and building the team during the 2025-26 academic year. The Tigers plan to join the College Squash Association (CSA) with the goal of achieving varsity status by the 2028-29 season.
 
"I cannot imagine there is another person more qualified to start our squash program than Grant White," added Eisele. "From starting the program at the University of Virginia, combined with his experience as a student-athlete at Bowdoin and Woodberry Forest, gives him the experience and first-hand knowledge of finding young men to build a successful program here at Hampden-Sydney."
 
White has been involved with all aspects of the men's and women's squash at UVA, including training, organizing and managing the two programs. His primary responsibilities have also included recruiting student athletes, developing and executing fundraising initiatives, producing and managing internal and external media, grant proposals, in-season and off-season training plans, planning annual budgets, along with day-to-day administrative functions, including team correspondence, facility and equipment management, and accounting. He has US Squash Level 2 Coaching Certification, and the Cavaliers have enjoyed varsity status since 2016-17.
 
"I am excited, honored, and grateful to take on the head coaching role for the new squash program here at Hampden-Sydney," said White. "There are so many levels and so many points at which this project can act to positively impact the College and its constituents, and to serve the College's mission of 'forming good men and good citizens,' is, as I see it, work very much worth doing.
 
"I am profoundly grateful to John Corey; whose efforts underpin every aspect of the new H-SC squash program. He has provided both the vision for the squash program's establishment and the means to bring it to life here on campus. In doing so, he has opened a channel through which both the College and the game of squash can serve one another.
"My gratitude and acknowledgments are due as well to Dr. Stimpert, Chad Eisele, and the College's Board of Directors, who have shaped a space for squash at Hampden-Sydney. I am eager to fill this space with a team in which Hampden-Sydney men past, present, and future can take pride."
 
White helped the UVA men to an overall record of 11-6 during 2024-25, finishing as runners-up at the Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference (MASC) Championships, and advancing to the consolation bracket of the Potter Cup at the 2025 CSA National Collegiate Squash Team Championships. The Cavaliers earned a final national ranking of No. 7 and had four All-MASC selections, including the MASC Player of the Year Karim Elbarbary and Rookie of the Year Juan Jose Torres Lara, while Elbarbary (First Team) and JP Tew (Second Team) each earned CSA All-America honors. The UVA women's program finished 12-6 overall, runners-up at the MASC Championships, as well, while finishing fifth at the 2025 CSA National Collegiate Squash Team Championships. The Cavaliers earned a final national ranking of No. 5 and had four All-MASC selections, while Meagan Best (First Team) and Lina Tammam (Second Team) each earned CSA All-America honors.
 
UVA is a founding member of the MASC (2017) and Cavaliers have won three men's championships and one women's title, while having four men's MASC Players of the Year and three women's MASC Players of the Year. Overall, the two programs have had 16 All-America selections with the men's program moving from unranked to a top ranking of No. 5 in 2019, and the women's program moving from unranked to a top ranking of No. 4 in 2022.
 
White has led fundraising efforts that are emerging from the most successful cycle in program history, as UVA Men's and Women's Squash are the only teams that have both operating and scholarship funds fully endowed. Academically, the program has graduated over 40 CSA Scholar Athlete Award recipients and one Rhodes Scholar, and consistently posts GPA numbers well above the student body average with 2024-25 Team GPAs of 3.5 (men) and 3.67 (women). This year's ACC Athletic Honor Roll included 14 women and 13 men named to Honor Roll.
 
White has also served as the Assistant Director and Lead Coach for summer residential camps at the McArthur Squash Center at the Boar's Head Resort in Charlottesville since 2015. He had previously served as head coach of the Club Squash program at UVA from 2011-13. White has additional experience as an Assistant Squash Teaching Professional at the Boar's Head Sports Club (2013-17), the Squash Coach at Saint Anne's-Belfield School (2011-16), as Director of Squash and Head Squash Professional at the Atlantic Coast Athletic Club (2011-16) and as an Assistant Squash and Lacrosse Coach at Woodberry Forest School (2006-08).
 
White graduated from Bowdoin (ME) College in 2004 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and art history. He was a four-year member of both the squash and lacrosse teams at Bowdoin. White later earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing (poetry track) at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011.

Grant and his wife, Mara, have a son, Virgil, and a daughter, Augusta.