Peter Sheffield Briggs, the son of English parents and a native of Greenwich, Connecticut, first learned squash at the Field Club in his home town.
[4] As a freshman at Harvard University, he secured the top seed spot on the varsity squash team and was ranked #1 in the country.
[5] An intercollegiate champion,[6] Briggs became Captain of the Crimson squash team and Harvard won the NCAA title that year.
[9] That same year, he also co-founded a sports apparel business named Boast with a group of fellow Ivy League athletes.
At the same time that he competed on the courts, Briggs held a day job as a corporate trader at Kidder, Peabody & Co.[12] eventually moving to Merrill Lynch.
[20] Briggs received recognition as a member of the Harvard Squash Hall of Fame, Class of 1996 for being a three-time All-Ivy and All-American.
[22] The competitive biennial Briggs Doubles Cup benefiting CitySquash is named for him and considered one of the premier tournaments on the circuit.
[23] Briggs was himself a board member of this urban youth enrichment program which raises scholarship funds for academically oriented students and has been based at Fordham University since 2002.