Event Round Up Events in Oct/Nov 2012 Ballarat Open Racquetball Championship Oct 18 Finals—Sec School Squash Competition Yrs 7/8 The thin red line Grade Winner Runner Up Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre Oct 19—21 Open Garry Pedersen Peter French Moorabbin Open OCTOBER 2012 Moorabbin Squash & Fitness Centre, Independence St VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 A Grade Marc O’Brien Charlie Stevenson Oct 19—21 A Plate Dale Edwards David Kelly Australian Teams Championship Squash Vic Office: Barossa Valley, SA T: 9682 2199 New Squash Vic Board Award Winners B Grade Brandon Smits Michael Barclay Go the Vics!! F: 9682 2399 In an historic first for squash and racquetball in Victoria, the new Sep 9 E: [email protected] Recognised B Plate John Phillips Craig Whitfield Squash Vic Board was elected by the members (clubs, venues and Junior Development Series—Tournament #8 The Squash Vic AGM was also the Executive Director associates) at the 2012 AGM. 9 positions were available ‐ three in C Grade Shaun Quinn Peter Tyndall Shepparton opportunity to congratulate Fiona Young each of the Club, Venue and Independent categories. 11 nominations winners of the 2011 Volunteer D Grade Steve Jenes Jane Lokan Enter online at www.squashvic.com.au were received and the new Board comprises: Awards and Grand Prix Squash and Contact Squash Vic on 9682 2199 for information High Performance Manager D Plate Trevor Rowe Carl Reid Oct 25 Richard Cagliarini Director Category Vision for Squash/Racquetball in Victoria Racquetball Champions. Finals—Sec School Squash Competition Yrs 9/10 Squash Vic Patron Sarah Fitz‐ E Grade Katelin Cartledge Ruth McPhee Club ‐ I believe that the focus of Squash Vic should be on Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre Development Coordinator Gerald was on hand to present the Peta Murphy the players – this means supporting clubs and F Grade Claire Armstrong Stefan Tsvetkov Nov 3 Tegan Doherty awards. venues, encouraging grassroots participation – for Squash Vic Junior Novice Tournament Doubles—Open O’Donnell/Rundell Abishara/Andrew both juniors and adults, structuring pennants to Contact Squash Vic for details suit the needs of people’s busy lives and providing A Grade Fuhrmeister/Barclay Davis/Terrill Nov 4 training and tournament opportunities for elite SQUASH SKILLS Coaches Workshop B/C Grade Boyd/Schmidt Turley/Harrison players. I am particularly interested in encouraging Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre girls to play squash and women to keep playing. As D/E Grade Jenes/Rowe Harper/Kemeen Contact Squash Vic for details a current pennant player, and as someone who has Nov 10—11 played tournaments and had some (mainly Lakes Classic Racquetball Championships—Lakes Entrance PEDDERS FRIES FRENCH IN BALLARAT CLIFF HANGER vicarious) involvement with elite squash, I am able Contact Chris Fuhrmeister for further details 51551563 to bring to the Board a player’s perspective. With Australian Open Champion, Cameron White confined to barracks, the Entry form available for download from the Squash Vic Ballarat Racquetball Grand Prix Men's Open Event was always going to be a website calendar section. This is a Grand Prix Racquetball Club ‐ Bryan Bird I look forward to a new era under a re‐vamped last man standing affair. In the end it came down to a final game 'cut Circuit event. Board and a new Constitution. throat' point to decide the championship, in favour of Victorian Open Nov 10—11 Club ‐ Lee‐Anne My vision would be to see Squash grow as a sport , runner‐Up, Gary Pedersen over his Geelong stablemate and top seeded, Djerriwarrh Squash Championships—Squash Logic Melton Carpenter to encourage a growing participation in the sport Peter French, 17/21, 21/9, 21/20. Contact [email protected] for further details and to raise the status of squash as a sport, even to As with all A Grades this year, the unexpected happened, with local Marc Enter online via Squash Vic website. the level of Olympic consideration. O'Brien taking out top seeded Charlie Stevenson in the final 21/15, 21/15. This is a Grand Prix Squash Circuit event. Venue ‐ My vision for squash is for us to find a way to Above: Nathan Lindner from Following a shock semi‐final exit in the Vic Open, Grand Prix leader, Nov 18 Daniel Tanner become a viable and sustainable option through Shepparton, receives his Volunteer Brandon Smits returned to the winners list, with a clinical 21/11, 21/5 Junior Development Series—Tournament #9 creating and innovating to find a business model Award. victory over Yarrawonga stalwart, Michael Barclay. Geelong that will work for squash. Below: Peter French and Cameron Wangaratta's Shaun Quinn, moved a step closer to end of year honours, Nov 23—25 Independent ‐ Although I have no clear plan to increase White from Geelong with their prevailing over a determined Peter Tyndall 21/16, 21/18 in C Grade. Corporate Games—Melb Sports & Aquatic Centre Damien Green participation in the sport, I do feel that building an Grand Prix Racquetball trophies. Sixth seeded Steve Jenes spoiled a fairy tale ending for South Australian Nov 24—25 effective and co‐operative board of management is Grand Prix debutant, Jane Lokan, taking out the D Grade final 21/12, 21/16 Gippsland Squash Teams Tournament—Moe a major step toward being able to devise and and capturing his first Grand Prix title in the process. www.squashvic.com.au Nov 23—25 implement plans for improvement. I feel it is Ballarat youngster, Katelin Cartledge displayed her credentials for better Grays Masters—Ballarat important to recognise that Squash has a very loyal things to come, cutting a swathe through the event and winning the final base of participants that we must continue to cater over the more experienced Ruth McPhee 21/15, 21/1. for, but we also must diversify to offer new or Grade Winner Runner Up revised products that are capable of attracting new @squashvic participants. Open/A Grade Mixed Jarrod Stewart (Moe) Nathan Stewart (Moe) 2012 Country Individual Independent ‐ In the future, I would like to see squash and Open/A Plate Mixed Mark Edgley (LE) Judy Wright (Bairn) Catherine Swift racquetball have high profiles in the wider Squash Championships community so that they can be viable choices for B Grade Mens Damian Tubb (Bairn) Chris Fuhrmeister (LE) Hosted for a second year by Chris Fuhrmeister at Lakes sport‐minded people. With strong junior programs Entrance, players came from Gippsland, Geelong, Mornington B Plate Mens Mark Giacomelli (LE) and clear pathways for development, careful Peninsula, Latrobe Valley and Bairnsdale to compete over the attention to the needs of all players, clubs and weekend. There were some very close matches and some epic 5 C Grade Mens Jordan Rounds (LE) Brandon Smits (LE) www.facebook.com/squashvic venues and a flexible and adaptive approach, setters! C Plate Mens Chris Rounds (LE) Brian Goodwin (Mor) Squash Vic will be able to stimulate higher rates of participation at the community level and provide C Special Plate Mens Jacob Vandervegt (LE) Bruce Coulton (LE) opportunities for players to realise their ambitions D Mens/C Ladies Roger Regan (Gee) Trevor Rowe (LE) and potential. Independent ‐ For both sports to rebound in Australia it is critical Grand Prix Squash award winners, D Mens/C Ladies Plate John Sentry (LE) Michael Smits (LE) Gavin Murphy for the Squash and Racquetball communities to be left—Matt Wealands and right— www.youtube.com/squashvic1 D Mens/C Ladies Spec Pl Rayleen Cooper (Beac) Ben Biggs (Bairn) united and working together. We need to Anthony Morris. incentivise the total Squash and Racquetball E Mens/D Ladies Glenis Slater (Bairn) Natalie Mackay (LE) industry, to have as its goal ‐ every Squash facility in E Combined Elisha Brooks (LE) Josh Harrison (LE) this state has available properly structured junior Squash and Racquetball programs. E Combined Plate Jarrod Vieira (LE) THE THIN RED LINE PAGE 2 PAGE 3 Show your Treasurer you Care: nominate them for a World Squash Day 20 Oct — BE IN IT! Treasurers’ Award 40 clubs to date in Australia have registered, 14 in Victoria. NSW Congratulations : Grassroots Grabs: Whether your treasurer bangs out a budget on the couch in their Uggs, currently has more clubs on board than us!! We need more or sits in an office managing a team of accountants, they’re probably the Melody Francis & Sarah Cardwell.. • Squash Vic is developing Case studies on Victorian club and centres to support this promotional initiative. person who’s doing the most to keep your organisation on its feet. ...who made the Australian Senior Women’s Team some successful local activities. The first in Each year, Our Community and Westpac celebrate these spreadsheet announced recently : the series kicks off with Melbourne It is not too late, register your club/centre at specialists with the Westpac Community Treasurers’ Awards, giving University’s growth in female participation http://worldsquashday.com/ 1. Rachael Grinham (QLD) through the Hits & Giggles program and two organisations the chance to have their treasurers recognised and 2. Donna Urquhart (NSW) more are being added as this goes to print. rewarded. 3. Melody Francis (VIC) Available on the WSD site for download: Case studies will be uploaded to the Squash Nominations should outline how the nominee ensures good financial 4. Sarah Cardwell (VIC) Vic website under Squash Vic HQ/Resources • WSDLOGO the World Squash Day 2012 Logo management, governance and outcomes. Congratulations also to Coach: Sarah Fitz‐Gerald • University Cup Challenge—a new annual Winners in each category will receive a $5000 prize for their organisation, • POSTER make sure everyone knows about World Squash Day (VIC) competition featuring teams from Monash, a trophy, and $5000 worth of training and tools from Our Community.