Campbell Grayson, a 17-year veteran of the Professional Squash Association World Tour with 14 titles, joined the Yale Squash Program as an assistant coach for both teams in July of 2021.
While at Yale, Grayson has helped lead the men's team to the CSA semifinals in four consecutive seasons. In 2024-25, the Bulldogs reached the CSA Championship Match for the first time since 2016. On the women's side, Grayson took the Bulldogs to the semifinals in 2024. Both teams have not finished outside of the top-eight in the CSA rankings during his tenure.
Grayson, an Auckland, New Zealand, native, won two of those championships, the Cannon Kirk Irish Squash Open and the Northwestern Mutual LifeTime Houston Open, a year before he retired in 2020.
Ranked as high as 24th in the world in 2020, he also helped his country to its best finish in over a quarter of a century at the WSF Men’s World Team Squash Championships.
Grayson won the U-13, U-15, U-17 and U-19 New Zealand age group national titles. In the final year of his junior career, he also won the U-19 New Zealand International Open, Australian International Open, and the Scottish International Open. He placed ninth at the prestigious British Junior Open and reached the last 16 at the 2004 World Junior Championships.
Grayson also won the bronze medal at the 2006 World Doubles Championships in Melbourne, Australia. That performance earned him a position in the 2006 New Zealand Commonwealth Games. A year later he began competing full-time on the PSA World Tour.
As a youth, Grayson was selected to be a part of Auckland's elite tennis junior squad and went on to win numerous titles while representing Auckland at the New Zealand Junior Tennis Nationals in 1996. Training at Titirangi Rackets Club, his attention shifted to his father’s game, squash, at age 11. He won his first U-13 New Zealand Nationals squash title in 1997.
In 2005, Grayson was awarded the NZ Prime Minister's High-Performance Scholarship while studying at Unitec Institute of Technology and majoring in Sports Management. He was awarded the 2006 Sportsperson of the Year Award at Unitec and the 2009 Sportsman of the Year by Squash Auckland.
