Farag is no stranger to the kind of success that he enjoyed over the weekend. His resume also includes individual titles from the World Junior Open and the Junior British Open.

“[Winning this championship] was a bit different because I was playing for Harvard, not just for myself,” Farag said. “Colin West ’10 won [the national championship] two years ago, and I wanted to get it back to Harvard this year.”

With players like Farag and the CSA women’s individual champion, Crimson freshman Amanda Sohby, bursting onto the scene, Harvard may be changing the nature of collegiate squash.

“[Having Farag and Sohby] is going to attract other strong players,” Crimson coach Mike Way said. “Our sport is growing, there are new teams coming into the program, and the level of squash—the bar has been raised. Other schools are going to step up their recruiting.”

As just a sophomore, Farag will remain a daunting force to anyone seeking individual glory in collegiate squash for two more seasons. If he can duplicate this season’s Jordan-esque dominance in his junior and senior campaigns, Farag may be able to steal another page from MJ’s book and win a national championship three years in a row.

“I don’t want to put pressure on him,” Ahmed said. “But you have to imagine that he’s in pretty good shape to [win the Individual Championships] the next two years, barring injuries or a player that no one’s heard of yet.”

—Staff writer Dominic Martinez can be reached at dmartinez@college.harvard.edu.