Squash takes Tabor Academy coach across the world
Moronta congratulates winning girls from the U13 division of the Beijing Open finals. Photos source: Tabor Squash
Moronta, left, and Eric Liu visited the Great Wall of China during the summer. 
Moronta, center, and the Liu family enjoyed a Peking duck dinner together in Beijing. 
Guillermo Moronta, left, presents awards to young squash players at the Beijing Squash Open. Photos source: Tabor Squash
Moronta, left, and Liu visited the Temple of Heaven in between Moronta's time coaching. 
During his trip to China, Moronta coached squash camps across three cities.
Moronta congratulates winning girls from the U13 division of the Beijing Open finals. Photos source: Tabor Squash
Moronta, left, and Eric Liu visited the Great Wall of China during the summer.
Moronta, center, and the Liu family enjoyed a Peking duck dinner together in Beijing.
Guillermo Moronta, left, presents awards to young squash players at the Beijing Squash Open. Photos source: Tabor Squash
Moronta, left, and Liu visited the Temple of Heaven in between Moronta's time coaching.
During his trip to China, Moronta coached squash camps across three cities.
MARION — The game of squash has guided Guillermo Moronta’s life since fifth grade.
His proficiency in the sport brought him to Tabor Academy, led him to enroll and play at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and connected him with many of the people in his life.
It also brought him to China in summer 2025, where he spent two weeks training athletes in Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. He worked with elementary through college-aged students, teaching them the skills necessary for competition.
This isn’t the first time he’s traveled internationally to coach squash players, but Moronta said China is a “quickly developing market” for the sport. With the Summer Olympics only a couple years away, he said the country is investing in players to represent their homeland.
“It was the first time I ever had to teach and coach the sport without sharing a common language,” Moronta said.”The players were really receptive, they learned quickly even though we weren't speaking the same language.”
Coaching squash has brought Moronta full circle, as he is now the squash coach and an admissions director at the school he graduated from in 2002. He works to make the game accessible while teaching athletes to thrive.
He began playing in middle school, and eventually enrolled at Tabor and joined its team. He said while he was a good student in high school, his athletic achievements helped him gain a seat at Bates.
While in college, he was introduced to coaching through jobs at summer camps. When he got a job at a boarding school after graduation, he began teaching and coaching there too.
“I really grew to love working with the students in the classroom and then out of the classroom on the squash course,” Moronta said.
Even though he doesn’t work in the classroom anymore, he said he still enjoys connecting with students through his role as their coach.
Moronta said many of the students had never played squash before joining the team, but their inexperience doesn’t get in the way of their passion.
“Our mutual passion for squash is what bonds us, but also my connection to Tabor as an alum,” he said. “The students really appreciate having that mutual connection as well.”
When he’s not in the office or on the court at Tabor, much of Moronta’s time is spent in another squash-related pursuit.
He first learned how to play through SquashBusters, a Boston-based sports and youth empowerment organization. Similar foundations modeled on SquashBusters have popped up around the country in the years since, many of them supported by the Squash Education Alliance.
Moronta volunteers as a board member for the group, which he said provides underserved kids and communities with athletic and educational support and mentorship.
He said this work, and the sport, gives him purpose.
“I don't come from means. I don't make a lot of money as an educator, but my time that I can give is my way of giving back to something that has really helped shape who I am,” Moronta said.
“I have a love for the sport of squash, but I really value the relationships and the connections I've made with the people that I've crossed paths with,” he added.
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