SQUASH MOM

Local squash, the game, got its biggest

boost in the Charleston area last year when

the newly formed Charleston Squash Club

opened in an unlikely location — a

nondescript warehouse on Upper King

Street.

Once you pass through the combo locked

doors, the squash club is another world.

Compact, luxurious but not stuffy. The club

has three courts, a lounge with a bar, a

small workout area and locker rooms with

steam rooms — not to mention a mascot, a

friendly golden retriever-poodle mix named

Yankee.

Yankee actually is part of the package for

what many consider the club’s biggest

asset, squash professional Richard Millman

and his wife, Pat Millman. Both teach

lessons and arrange matches and

tournaments, not only at the club but at

courts on Kiawah Island and the Medical

University’s Harper Student Center.

The Millmans, who moved from England

in 1993, own the Westchester Squash Club

near New York. Richard has coached at

Cornell and been an age group national

champion in singles four times and a

doubles national champion once. Pat is an

accomplished squash player who leads

clinics at the student center.