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Wendy Lawrence is in her second season as Head Squash Coach at GW. Lawrence joins the Colonials after 25 five years of coaching many of the nations top nationally ranked juniors including four-time US National Men's Champion, Marty Clark.
She served as the Varsity Head Boys and Girls Coach at The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia and lead the teams to three Mid-Atlantic titles and a national ranking of #21. Additionally, Lawrence started Results Gym in Washington, DC in 2001 and served as the Director of Squash.
Coach Lawrence began her squash career at Vassar College where she earned her bachelor's degree in Political Science and played on both the varsity squash and tennis teams. She served as the Head Squash Coach at the Uptown Racquet Club in New York City while pursuing her professional squash tournament career. She moved to Washington, DC in 1981 where she was both General Manager and Head Squash Pro at Washington Sports Club. In 1984 she was nationally ranked #12 in the United States and #1 in the Washington, DC area for 3 years.
US Squash awarded Lawrence the Wedgewood Trophy for her contributions to squash in the United States and the Feron Cup , the US Squash national award for sportsmanship. In 2006, she received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for the National Capitol Squash Racquets Association. In 2005, she founded the DC Squash Academy, a non-profit organization that trains under-served elementary school children from DC public schools in squash and provides them with academic support and mentoring.
Lawrence is married to Mark Powden and has two teenage sons.
