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News from the Club ...
Know any Adults or Juniors who may fancy playing squash
The Club wants to encourage anyone who may have an interest in trying squash.
You would be welcome to come along for a FREE trial session.
Try Squash in 2024 is available to any junior or senior who may be interested, so think about any friends or family. All equipment and coaching will be provided.
If you would like to give it a go, please contact Mark Davies or Jim Tunley for any further details and to make an appointment (see Contact & Links page for phone details).
Free squash during October !
Commencing on Saturday, 5th October, the Club is pleased to see a return of our initiative, Free Squash for Ladies & Girls.
Sessions will take place each Saturday, between 10.30 and 12.00 throughout October and are designed to encourage women and girls to try squash. All equipment is provided and sessions will be run by the Club's qualified coaching team.
If members know of any family, friends, colleagues who may be interested, please encourage them to come along and have a go.
Birthday wishes to Brian
Congratulations to Brian Wynn, an active member of the Club who celebrates his 80th Birthday this October.
Brian, who was also a former Badmington player and Coach, continues to enjoy playing squash twice a week and "loves it".
From everyone at the Squash Club, we hope Brian has a great birthday and that he keeps on playing the game he loves ...
Happy Birthday Brian
Congratulations to Jon Davies
Over the weekend 5-6 October Jonathan Davies competed in the British Racketball Open Mens Over 50s event at the Hallamshire Club in Sheffield.
He did really well to progress, but lost out in a tight Semi Final match.
Alasdair achieves Level 2 Coaching Award
Congratulations to Club member, Alasdair Blundell who, in August, successfully completed the England Squash Coach Award (Level 2) at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham.
This Award is an important one for the Club, enhancing our experience and qualification, particularly for the coaching work with juniors.
Level 2 Coaching Award
Racketball Friendly
A Racketball match v. Heswall was organised between the two Clubs by Hannah Clark on Saturday, 28 September at the Heswall SC.
Women and Mens Teams played with drinks and some food after.
Joel and Gina - our 2024 National Champions
Congratulations to Joel Makin and Gina Kennedy, on becoming the 2024 National Champions in Birmingham on 18 August.
Our new National Champions
Josh is our new Club Champion
Congratulations to Josh Davies, our 2024 Club Champion.
The Final was eventually played on 3 August, against Rob Evans - Josh winning the match in three games: 11/8, 11/9, 11/5.
In the Play-off match for Third Place, Will Silvester came through strong to beat Darren Lee 3-0.
In our Plate Competition, Richard Ackerley beat last year's Plate winner, Andy Morris.
Josh is our 2024 Champion
2024 Championship Finalists
Will wins the 2024 Championship Play-off
Richard wins the 2024 Championship Plate
Club's First Division status - CONFIRMED
We've received confirmation that the Squash Club's NWCSL First Division status is secure into the 2024-25 Season.
With our First Team at the bottom end of Division One last season, there was some doubt whether or not we would stay or be relegated !
For a Club like ours to maintain a place in this elite level Squash League is superb and huge thanks to all involved, in particular our First Team sponsor, Dave Cadwallader.
WBSC clothing now available
Club members are now able to purchase from the WBSC clothing range following a new arrangement with 305 Custom.co.uk.
Use the following link to check out what's available.
WBSC Clothing
Tom is king on the racketball court !
Congratulations to Tom Clark on his win in the West of England Racketball Open Championships, B Grade Singles held in Leamington on 6th July.
Tom was joined for this event, which is part of the 2024 Karakal UK Racketball Series, by fiance, Hannah and Father in Law (to be), Mark Davies.
July Racketball Leagues
The latest Racketball Leagues are posted at the Club, matches to be played by 8th August.
July Racketball Leagues 1
July Racketball Leagues 2
Club Championships Draw
The draw for the 2024 Club Championships is now been available and all players are asked to complete their matches as soon as possible, within the schedule.
The Finals were due to be played on 29th June.
UPDATE: Our schedule has had to be moved as some matches have not been completed, in part due to extenuating circumstances. The intention is for these to conclude as soon as possible.
2024 Club Championships Draw
AGM Update
At the Club's Annual General Meeting held on 29 May, it was AGREED not to add any increases to either the Annual Subscription or the Light Card fee for the 2024-25 season.
Note from 2024 AGM
2024 Club Championships
Members are asked to submit entries for this year's Club Championships, with Finals Day scheduled for Saturday, 29 June.
This is the Club's premier event of 2024; please get your entry in as soon as possible to allow time for the draw; an Entry Form is now posted in the Squash Club.
Who will lift this year's trophy ?
Our boys on top at Neston !
Congrtatulations to Josh Davies on his superb win of the Main Event at the 2024 Neston Shrimp Classis Open, over the weekend 11-12 May.
In the final A Grade match, Josh beat fellow Club member, Jamie Silvester by 3-0. This was a great tournament for both players; their game continues to advance to a higher level.
In the B Grade Final match another Club player, Darren Lee, who finished as Runner-up. Well done to all our players.
Congratulations to Josh Davies on his superb win of the Main Event at the 2024 Neston Shrimp Classis Open, over the weekend 11-12 May.
In the final A Grade match, Josh beat fellow Club member, Jamie Silvester by 3-0. This was a great tournament for both players; their game continues to advance to a higher level.
In the B Grade Final match another Club player, Darren Lee, who finished as Runner-up. Well done to all our players.
2023-24 Season completed
All matches in the 2023 - 24 Squash Season are now done; to see how our Teams finished, visit the Teams Page.
Our players take on the Chester Graded Event
On 20 April, several players from the Club took part in the 2024 Chester RUFC Squash Graded Event and the Main Grade was won by Josh Davies - congratulations to him and also to Tom Willis, Jamie Silvester and Ian Wade.
The Winner is ... Josh
Selected for Wales at Home Internationals
Congratulations to Mark Davies on his selection as part of the Wales Over 65s Team, taking part in the 2024 Home Internationals at Nottingham over the weekend 13-14 April.
The results did not go well for the Welsh Team, who finished in fourth place.
The Welsh Team in Nottingham
Ladies squash & racketball
Each Saturday morning the Club hosts a Ladies Squash session which is begining to thrive.
It started in January with a free open session to encourage women and girls and, since then, more have joined and they're also enjoying playing racketball.
If anyone new would like to come and try this, please do get in touch with the Squash Club.
The Saturdays !
Racketball Taster
Building on the recent success of some of our members (see below) we've started a Racketball League from April, to run through the summer months, until the Teams start again in September.
To encourage participation, we held a Taster Evening on 2nd April when we had 14 members come and try this great game - see below.
If anyone would like to join the new League and it's open to all of our members, regardless of age and ability - just let us know if you're interested.
Our Racketball Rules.
A game for all ages and ability.
Some of the Racketball group.
Racketball champions
Congratulations to four players from the Club who took honours at the 2024 NorthWest Racketball Open Champions held at Bowden Squash Club on 9 March.
In the main A Grade Event, Jonathan Davies came through to take the title.
The Over 50s Event was won by Darren Lee.
The 3rd / 4th Place playoff was between Hannah Davies and Tom Clark, which Tom won by 12/10 in the third and final game !
Our Racketball winners
Jon & Tom on court
We have a second 2024 Welsh Champion
Again, huge congratulations to our 2024 Welsh Under 15s Champion, Ethan Willis.
Ethan became the 2024 Karakal Welsh Junior Closed Champion, on 11 February at the Sport Wales National Centre, Cardiff.
See the Juniors Page for details.
Our own 2024 Welsh Champion
Huge congratulations to our 2024 Welsh Over 45s Champion, Jonathan Davies [JD].
Jon became the 2024 Karakal Welsh Masters Closed Champion, beating Paul Barrell by 3-0 on 28 January at the Rhiwbina Squash Club, Cardiff.
Our Welsh O45s Champion
Top Female International joins First Team
Over the New Year, we received confirmation that our First Team will be boosted during the second half of the 2023-24 Season.
See the Teams Page for details.
WOMEN & GIRLS FREE SQUASH
During January, the Club hosted three FREE Squash Beginner sessions, with a particular emphasis on encouraging women and girls into the sport.
UPDATE: Over the three weeks, we had 15 attendances and the group have agreed to continue into February, each Saturday morning.
Beginners Free Squash
Work completed on courts refurbishment
Work to refurbish our courts was completed by Melior Sports, on 21 December.
The work included the repair and painting of walls and a light sanding of court floors, over two days.
During the week after Christmas, the floors will require regular brushing, vacuuming and mopping, to ensure they are playable - all volunteers welcome !
Essential maintenance of the courts.
Courts all done.
This may help save a life ... !
On 19 December, the Squash Club hosted a Defibrillator Training / Refresh Session and Members were encouraged to come along, to help better understand what to do in the case of an emergency.
Our thanks to Rob Evans for his knowledge and guidance through this vitally important training.
Heart attack or cardiac arrest?
All under control ...
Team Wales in New Zealand
Team Wales are playing in the Men's WSF World Team Championship 2023 held in Tauranga, New Zealand between 11 - 17 December.
Their first match was against the hosts, New Zealand and featured WBSC's very own No.1, Owain Taylor.
Their match was won 2-1, with Owain and North Wales player, Emyr Evans coming through, with the third player in the team, Joel Makin, losing out to Paul Coll in four games.
See the link (right) to check out all of the Championship results..
UPDATE: The Wales Team finish in Fifth place; in the Final Match, Egypt beat England..
2023 Fast & Furious
The Club's 2023 Fast & Furious Christmas event was held on 9 December.
Despite a disappointing entry, this year's event produced entertaining squash of the highest standard, with the Champion and Runner-up as brothers Will and Jamie Silvester.
Huge thanks to all participants for their support and to Hannah Davies for her event organisation.
Some of the F&F group
Brothers finish First and Second
Our 2023 F&F Champion
Loss of a great racket player
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Geoff Roberts on 16 October, at the age of 81 years.
Our older members will remember Geoff as a superb racket player - so good that he represented Wales at Tennis; he was also a County level player at both Squash and Badmington.
In the 1970s, Geoff was instrumental is establishing the former Wrexham Squash Club at the Rugby Club in Bryn Estyn Road; he was also a founder of the North Wales Regional Tennis Centre in Wrexham, and was a Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) Vice President and Counsellor for many years.
RIP Geoff.
Squash for 2028 Olympics !
On 9 October, the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games Organising Committee recommended that squash, as one of five sports, be included in the LA2028 Olympic sports programme.
This decision is significant and marks an exciting milestone in the history of squash, as the sport nears inclusion in the Olympic Games for the first time.
It's anticipated the decision on the selection of new sports for 2028 will be ratified at the IOC Session in Mumbai on October 16th.
UPDATE: Squash along with four other sports - Baseball/softball, cricket (T20), flag football, and lacrosse (sixes) have been officially included as additional sports on the LA28 programme.
Maintenance of courts
We're hoping that our courts will soon be closed for essential maintenance - when they would not be available while the work progresses.
Work was due to take place on 20th and 21st July and include the repair and painting of all walls, as well as sanding and re-marking the court floors.
UPDATE: Our contractors, Melior Sports, who are based in Northwich, were unable to attend as scheduled; they will, however, now undertake this work on 21st and 22nd December.
Equality / Equity Policy
The Wrexham Brymbo Squash Club Committee is keen to ensure that all matters within the Club are treated with respect and fairness and, as such, have formally acknowledged and adopted the Squash Wales Model Equality / Equity Policy.
To view the Equality / Equity Policy, click on the link -
Equality / Equity Policy
Calling all potential coaches . . .
Do you have what it takes to become a qualified squash coach - if so, your Club needs you!
If any Club member has an interest in committing to become a qualified coach, the Squash Club may be able to assist with necessary fees and mentoring.
Please contact either Mark Davies or Jim Tunley to chat it through.
and finally ... all Members to note
To all members - at anytime, if you are the last to leave the Club, please ensure that the showers and all of the lights, heaters and court fans are turned off.
Please be vigilant in this and report any problems that may arise - thank you.
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