News from the Club ...

2010-2011 Season starts ...

A new season starts on 7th September when the North Wales Leagues commence. Matches in the North West Counties Squash Leagues start during the week beginning 20th September.

2010-2011 memberships overdue

Subscriptions for 2010 - 2011 were due on 1st June 2010 and so, from the beginning of August, only paid up members are eligible to use the Club and the on-line booking facility.
If you still wish to re-join, please click on the box (right) to download an application / renewal form.

Junior coaching - important news.

To see what is happening with junior coaching during the Summer, check out the Juniors Page.

September Internal Leagues

This months internal leagues, for September, are now posted on the website, accessible by either using the link (right) or via the on-line booking system. Please note, these are due to be played by Sunday, 3rd October.

If any member wishes to join (or re-join) the leagues, please contact Jim Tunley.

2010-11 Team Squash

In anticipation of the season commencing in September, we hope to have representative teams in all three of the North Wales Leagues as well as Teams (including at least one Ladies Team) in the North West Counties Squash Leagues.

Any member (ladies or men) interested in playing for the Club next season is asked to let us know as soon as possible please, to ensure that we have time to register our Teams with the respective Leagues.

We are the Champions !

Congratulations to all members of our Team representing the Club in the North West Counties Squash League - on Saturday they beat a team from the Crow Wood Club in Burnley to become Division 4 Champions.
See the Teams page for more details and the winners photo.

AGM

It was a disappointingly low turnout in support of the Club's AGM on 10th May - to view a note of the meeting, click on the following link:
AGM Note - May 2010

Club's Juniors excel !

Visit our Juniors Page to see the latest achievements by our juniors, at home and abroad.

Club celebrates three years !

On 1st March 2010, it had been three years since the Squash Club was established. In that time we have welcomed many new members and our junior coaching programmes have helped develop through some good and quite promising young players.

We have also developed this website and seen the introduction of our on-line booking arrangements - in the future we will look to tackle some sizable maintainence issues with the front wall on Court 2 and the changing areas.

Child Safety & Equity

The Squash Club fully supports and welcomes the work of its National Governing Body, Squash Wales, in the area of child safety and, as such, members and parents may be interested to see their recently issued Newsletter (January 2010) -"Child Safety - Our Priority"

Local Girls help carry the flag ...

There was a superb and quite unprecedented show of Welsh squash at the Swiss Junior Open over the weekend of 4 - 6 December and two of our Club members played a big part.
In a quite remarkable weekend, Welsh youngsters won five of the eight tiles being played for with Hannah Davies winning the Final of the Girls Under 17 event.
Emily Jones narrowly missed out on 11th place in the Girls Under 15 group .

To find out more and view pictures, go to the - Juniors Page

Treat yourself in 2010 ...!

Orders are now being taken for good quality cotton polo shirts (navy or white) that will include the Club's logo. We will also be able to offer t-shirts in the latest performance materials, in mens and ladies fit (red, navy or white).

Prices start from £10 for adult sizes but, to try before you buy, contact Jim Tunley.

View the new shirts -Club's new polo shirt or

Club players excel at local tournament.

Over the weekend 20-22 November 2009, a number of Club players took part in the North East Wales Open, hosted by The Saints Club, Prestatyn.

The highlight must go to Hannah Davies and her friend Tesni Evans (from Saints) who, in the Welsh overall rankings are 74th and 27th respectively, but took on and beat the Tournament's two top seeded players Jenny Wright (ranked 3 in Wales) and Beth Winstanley (6th). These superb performances took the North Wales pair to the Final where Tesni took the title.

Other players finished as follows -
Darren Lee - 6th in Section B
Mark Davies - 3rd in Section C
Darron Hewitt - 4th in Section D
Perry Shoemark - 9th in Section D, and
Thomas Hewitt - 4th in Section E.

Congratulations to all our players taking part.

To read a full report of the Tournament, click on the link -North East Wales Open

Equity Policy

The Wrexham Brymbo Squash Club Committee is keen to ensure all matters within the Club are treated with respect and fairness and, as such, have now formally acknowledged the Squash Wales model Equity Policy.

To view the Equity Policy, click on the link
-Equity Policy

2010-2011 Memberships

Our membership year for 2010-2011 commenced on 1st June, with fees as follows:

Senior - £60
Junior (in full time education - £30 or £50 for 2 children from same family
Family (2 adults and children) - £90.

Follow the link for a copy of theMembership Renewal Form

The cost of a light card is currently £3.00 for a 45 minute session.

Squash Presentation Evening Success!

Thanks to all who supported the Squash Club at our 2009 Presentation Evening.

The evening acknowledged the achievements of our junior members with a presentation of awards from our sponsor, Club Member Darren Booth. We also announced four new awards relating to the recent Teams' season.

The following awards were made during the evening:

2008-09 Junior Tournament

Main Event Winner: Perry Shoemark

Runner Up – Alice Jones

3rd – Jason Slater.

Main Plate Event Winner: Edward Avery
Runner Up - Oliver Green
3rd - Jasmin Hughes.

Young Boys Event Winner: Thomas Hewitt
Runner Up - Luke Griffith

Plate Event Winner: Adam Cartwright

Runner Up - Edan Jackson

Young Girls Event Winner: Hannah Philpott

Runner Up - Natasha Jackson

See some of our Juniors using this link -Presentation Evening

2008 Club Handicap Tournament

Winner:Hannah Davies

Runner Up - Darron Hewitt

Third Place - John Roberts

Fourth Place - Garry Fisher

2008-09 Season Special Awards
Female Team Player of the Year - Alice Jones
Male Team Player of the Year - John Evans
Most Improved Junior Player of the Year - Perry Shoemark
Best Team Captain of the Year ! - Paul Gowing.

Congratulations to all our award winners !

On-line Booking continues following successful trial

The Squash Club Committee met on 23 April 2009 and has agreed to enter into an arrangement with HBI Consulting Ltd of Tunbridge Wells that will maintain the On-Line Booking system. This is both an important initiative and financial commitment for the Club and our thanks to those members who did respond with their views following the recent three month trial.

Only active (paid up) members of the Club will be able to book a court and this may be actioned through either a PC or a WAP enabled mobile phone. The instructions sent out in January are also available on the website. The website also includes the facility for members to amend any of their personal details but it is particularly important to ensure the system does show your correct e-mail address.

Please note that having booked (or cancelled) a squash court, the system will automatically issue an electronic no-reply confirmation of booking back to your e-mail address - as we will not have a link and touch screen at the Club, it is recommended that members keep these and take them to the Club, to avoid any confusion.

Access the system using the link above

Please remember, this system also allows members to view their position in the monthly leagues and provides appropriate contact details.

Calling all potential coaches . . .

Do you have what it takes to become a qualified squash coach - if so, your Club needs you!

Three Club members, Darron Hewitt, Llinos Evans and Hannah Davies recently attended a Level One coaching course at Holywell and were subsequently assessed as coaches. Prior to their assessment, each had to take four coaching sessions under the supervision of another qualified coach, who monitored their progress and provided mentoring support.

Hannah also elected to take part in a Referee and Marker course, again with subsequent assessment.

If you could cope with this and would like top give something back, the Squash Club may be able to assist with necessary fees and mentoring. If, however, any Club member does have an interest in committing to become a qualified coach, please chat it through first with Mark Davies.

Superb Final sees Hannah come through !

After some enforced delays to matches during this competition, sponsored by Darren Booth, there were two hard fought matched at the Semi Final stage on 6 February, but these were eclipsed in the Final.

Friday the 13th proved lucky for the Club with a brilliant final match in which the youth of Hannah Davies overcame the experience of Darron Hewitt.

Our congratulations to both players in getting through to this stage and for providing an excellent Final.

The winner's trophy will be presented to Hannah when we arrange an end of season social event at the Club.

Follow the link to see our FinalistsHannah & Darren with sponsor, Darren Booth

About our Club ....

Wrexham Brymbo Squash Club welcomes all levels of ability, from beginners to advanced.

The Club opened on 1st March 2007 and has two private, centrally-heated squash courts that are considered by many to be the best in the area. The Club fields six competitive teams: one mens and two ladies teams in the North West Counties Squash Leagues and three teams in the North Wales Squash Leagues, these also include some of the Club's promising Junior players.

Since the Club opened, we have seen a steady growth in our membership to both our senior and junior sections and we are most grateful to our sponsors, from the Sports Council for Wales along with the Directors of the Brymbo Sports and Social Complex, for allowing us to make this possible.

Through our Welsh SRA qualified coaches we have an active programme of junior coaching and practice sessions in the early evenings throughout the year.

This web site is integral to our on-going commitment to the development of Squash in Wrexham with the Club at Brymbo at the heart of programmes to encourage young people to play.