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What a busy week at Woden squash courts for the Inaugural Australian Junior Open.

Around 180 junior squash hopefuls from around Australia and overseas descended on Woden squash courts.

Queanbeyan Leagues Squash Club had 6 representative,s and although none of our players took out the competition they all put everything they had into representing themselves and the club.

Considering the "squash age" of some of our members, it was no wonder they were a bit starry eyed and full of nerves as they walked on court in their first ever large tournament match to face the top seeded players from around the country and abroad. All of our players acquitted themselves well and we should be proud of them.

Final placing’s for our players were;

Matthew Hall – U19 Boys – #26
Alex Willey (aka Mr Willet) - U15 Boys – #30
Ryan Martin – U13 Boys – #19
Tiana Saxby – U15 Girls – #11
Sarah Keen - U15 Girls – #16
Kathryn Martin – U15 Girls - #14

A link to the results for those that want to check
http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draws.aspx?id=F5AD259E-4331-4D6B-AD99-CFB27D75EC9F

Congratulations to all players on their performance.

Rego fees - quite a few people have asked about rego fees. The cost is $120 (cheapest of any club thanks to our sponsors – The Queanbeyan Leagues Club and the UC, and now includes Sunday practices), and can be paid on Sundays to our treasurer Lorraine Fitzgerald, or preferably direct deposited to our account;

Account: Queanbeyan Squash Club
BSB: 032705
Acc No#: 117395

Please include your name as the description/reference so we know who to credit the payment to.

We kicked of the 2012 squash year with a Come’N’Try day at junior training on Sunday (5/2/2012)

We had a great turn out from last year’s juniors and everyone was happy to see Connor back on the courts.

We had the Dickie family turn up with their daughters Kayla and Riley (smiley) and  friend  Sophie Lyris as well as Nic Jonsson and son Emil. Welcome to all of you.

We had some fun as well as the normal fitness and warm up training, the Come’N”Try kids did some new squashies skill and learning events while last year’s juniors tried to blow off the cobwebs.

Although the numbers were small we might pickup 2-3 juniors and as bonus seemed to pick up a couple of seniors as well. So a successful day.

The day could not have been possible without the support of the following people;

Trev (ankle) Scorer there as always on the scout for potential premier players, Matthew Hall and Adam Flemming who looked after the warm-ups and the returning juniors.  Gavin Jackson who helped on court with our guests and on the BBQ, Lorraine who entertained the parents topside and on BBQ, and as always the tireless Jeremy (El Presidento).

Thank You all.

Bob Martin

Juniors Co-ordinator

The club is pleased to advise that it will be starting an in-house social/novice comp this season.  It’ll be for players wanting an organised social hit, and/or players looking to go from social to pennant squash (a bridging comp).  Senior players will be providing coaching and rules tuition, and players will be covered by SRA insurance.  It will be held on Thursday evenings at UC.

If you're interested or would like more information, contact Kate Smith on 0404 448 923 or Kate.Smith@canberra.edu.au

This weekend (6, 7 August 2011) saw the Valleys Club hold their inaugural junior challenge tournament. The Club put on an excellent tournament and I believe it will become a permanent fixture.

30 juniors from across Canberra and Queanbeyan participated in a number of age based divisions. The Queanbeyan Leagues Club had 7 participants in the following divisions

• Under 15 A Mixed - Tiana Saxby

• Under 15 B Mixed - Connor McDonald and Sarah Keen

• Under 13 Girls - Kathryn Martin

• Under 13 Boys - Alex Carrick and Ryan Martin

• Under 11 Boys - Ben Keen

All of our members played extremely well and seem to have even gained skills over the break.

All players were a buzz when the World #1 players, Nick Matthew and Nicol David  turned up to present winners and runner up prizes, and I'm sure that anything that wasn't tied down was presented for autograph signing.

We had some success with Connor winning his division and Sarah runner up. Connor won a racquet of his choice and I'm sure he will have a great pennant season with his new weapon.

Ben was also runner up in his division. No one should walk away disappointed as everyone played extremely competitive squash. It was a good start to the season and gives everyone something to improve upon. A mention to Tiana and her mum Elissa, who made the trip down each day from Goulburn.

Once a again a well done to all players.

Also special mention to Julian Carrick (Alex’s Dad) who some how was awarded the over 17 division prize (won the raffle) and made sure he got his picture with the world's best players.