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Williams College

Thomas Hodgson

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    Volunteer Assistant Coach

Thomas Hodgson enters his eighth season as an Assistant Coach for the Williams College men's and women's squash teams in 2024-25. 

He graduated from Williams in 1974 and earned a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Yale in 1976. He joined the Williams coaching lineup in November 2017 after a 40-year career as a philosophy teacher and head coach of multiple varsity sports at Phillips Academy (Andover). He is a founder of SquashBusters Lawrence (Mass.), an urban squash program that promotes student academic, social and athletic development in partnership with Andover, Brooks School, and public schools in Lawrence.

A lifelong athlete, Hodgson has played football, basketball, baseball, tennis and squash. After taking up softball squash in 1996, Hodgson subsequently placed fourth in a U.S. Squash 3.5 national tournament and earned a national ranking of 13 in age group competition. He coached girls' and boys' varsity squash teams at Andover for 20 years, and he has worked with top coaches at the Squash and Beyond camps.

Tom and his wife, Susan (Brownell), a 1974 Williams' graduate, and their dogs live on the Southwest side of Mount Greylock.